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Kiley collection; L. Bruner); Gordon, Sheridan County, Nebraska, 

 Bruner (same); Fort Robinson, Dawes County, Nebraska, August 22, 

 Bruner (same); West Point, Cuming County, Nebraska (L. Bruner); 

 Cheyenne County, Kansas, Cragin (same); Lakin, Kearny County, 

 Kansas, 3,000 feet, September 1 ; Finney County, Kansas, H. W. Menke 

 (University of Kansas) ; Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas, Sep- 

 tember 1 (J. McNeill); Salt Lake Valley, Utah, 4,300 feet, August 

 1-4; American Fork Canyon, Utah County, Utah, 9,500 feet, August 

 2-3; Salt Lake, Utah, July 26, common, A. S. Packard; Spring Lake 

 Villa, Utah County, Utah, August 1-4, B. Palmer; Euby Valley, Ne- 

 vada, E. Ridgway; Colorado, 5,500 feet, Morrison (S. Henshaw; S. H. 

 Scudder); Colorado, July (U.S.N.M. Riley collection); Garden of the 

 Gods, El Paso County, Colorado, July, October (University of Kansas; 

 S. H. Scudder) ; Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, July, 

 August, E. S. Tucker (University of Kansas); Florissant, El Paso 

 County, Colorado, 8,000 feet, August 17-22; Pueblo, Colorado, 4,700 

 feet, July 8-9, August 30-31; Poudre River, Colorado, (L. Bruner); 

 Santa Fe, New Mexico, June, T. D. A. Cockerell; Texas, Belfrage, 

 June-September (U.S.N.M. Riley collection; S. H. Scudder); Dallas, 

 Texas, Boll (same). 



It has also been reported from Garden City, Kansas (Bruner), Regina, 

 Assiniboia (Caulfield), and northern California, abundant (Koebele). 



This species bears a elose general resemblance to M. bivittatus, from 

 which it is nevertheless very distinct. Bruner says, wit a regard to it, 

 that "it never leaves the open country for timbered or low localities 

 where the vegetation is rank," as that and other species do. It is a 

 prairie species. 



Cockerell has given the variety with red hind tibiae a distinctive 

 name. I have seen it from British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, 

 northern California, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Kansas, Utah, Nevada, 

 Colorado, and 2s ew Mexico. It appears to be the prevailing if not exclu- 

 sive form in some northern parts of its range. Specimens before me 

 from Wyoming, Iowa, and Texas have blue legs only; both forms occur 

 in Montana, Nebraska, Utah, and Colorado. 



In coloring and markings it is one of the most variable species of 

 Melanoplus known to me, but I have been unable to find grounds for 

 specific distinctions between the various forms, which seem to run into 

 each other completely. 



97. MELANOPLUS FOEDUS. 



(Plate XX, fig. 9.) 



Melanoplus foedus SCUDDER!, Proc. Bost. Soc.Nat. Hist., XX (1879), p. 69; Cent. 

 Orth. (1879), p. 58. BRUNER, Rep. U. S. Ent. Comra., Ill (1883), p. 61; Ins. 

 Life, IV (1891), p. 146; Bull. Div. Ent. U. S. Dep. Agric., XXVII (1892), p. 29; 

 ibid., XXVIII (1893), pp. 21-22, fig. 9 a b; Publ. Nebr. Acad. Sc., Ill (1893), 

 p. 27; Rep. Nebr. St. Bd. Agric., 1893 (1893), p. 460. 



Of medium or rather large size. Head rather large, not elevated, 

 slightly arched; eyes pretty large, but not prominent; interspace 



