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Louis, Missouri, October 10 (same); Kirkwood, Saint Louis County, 

 Missouri, September 6, October (same); Bushberg, Jefferson County, 

 Missouri, August 24 (same) ; Mississippi (L. Bruner) ; Texas, September 

 20, October 13, Belfrage; Dallas, Texas, Boll (S.H.Scudder; U.S.N.M. 

 Eiley collection); Fort Worth, Tarraut County, Texas (U.S.N.M. 

 Kiley collection). 



It has also been reported from New Jersey (Smith), Ithaca, New York 

 (Comstock), Normal, McLean County, Illinois (Thomas), various parts 

 of Kentucky (Garman), Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas (Bruner), 

 and, with doubt, by Thomas from Colorado " subalpine" and southern 

 Colorado. 



The species varies to a considerable degree, as appears in part from 

 the above description. Texan specimens have the tegmina uniformly 

 less acuminate apically and a longer furcula. Occasionally the tegmina 

 are considerably longer than the pronotum, as appears especially in a 

 pair sent me by Professor H. Garrnan from Kentucky. Specimens 

 from southern New England appear uniformly somewhat smaller than 

 others, while there is no difference in size between specimens from 

 Maryland and Texas. 



Walsli, supposing the species here described as M. walslm to be the 

 true M. scudderi, named the present species in his letters Pezotettix 

 rubricrusj and I still possess several specimens sent me by him in 1865 

 under that name. Examination of the types of Uhler and Thomas 

 show that scudderi and unicolor are identical, as McNeill thought. 



Eiley states that this species attains maturity in the vicinity of Saint 

 Louis, Missouri, about September 1, and begins to oviposit on Septem- 

 ber 24. The eggs have a quadrilinear arrangement in the pod. Uhler 

 found it abundant near Baltimore, Maryland, on " the sides of high 

 hills," Beutenmiiller about New York City in u dry places," and Com- 

 stock about Ithaca, New York, "among scattered trees on the crests 

 and slopes of our highest hills." In the West, however, Allen found it 

 in Iowa u common in grassy groves" and " on prairies," while McNeill 

 says that in Illinois it "is very frequently found along roadsides or in 

 pastures," and in Indiana Blatchley finds it "in open woods and 

 pastures." 



42. MELANOPLUS GILLETTEI, new species. 

 (Plate XIV, fig. 7.) 



Of rather small size, blackish fuscous, testaceous beneath. Head 

 not prominent, brownish fuscous deepening in tint above and flecked 

 with testaceous below, the clypeus and labrum testaceous, flecked with 

 fuscous; vertex rather feebly tumid, not elevated above the proiiotum, 

 the interspace between the eyes twice as broad as the first antennal 

 joint; fastigium steeply declivent, rather feebly sulcate; frontal costa 

 fading well before the clypeus, feebly narrowed above, as broad as the 

 interspace between the eyes, faintly sulcate at and below the ocellus, 

 biseriately punctate; eyes moderately large, not very prominent, some- 



