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or but in the feeblest degree. Ovipositor pale brownish, tipped with 

 reddish and margined with black. 



The colors in the above description are taken mostly from living 

 examples. 



Length of body, male, 18 mm., female, 24 mm.; antennae, male and 

 female, 9 mm.; tegmiua, male, 13.5 mm., female, 17 mm.; hind femora, 

 male, 11.5 mm., female, 13 mm. 



Ninety-two males, 74 females. Moosehead Lake, Maine; Norway, 

 Oxford County, Maine, S. I. Smith (Museum Comparative Zoology); 

 Mount Kearsarge, New Hampshire, 2,000 feet (A. P. Morse): Pinkham 

 Notch, New Hampshire, September (A. P. Morse); Sudbury, Rutland 

 County, Vermont; Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, August 

 1C, 17 (A. P. Morse); Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, 

 Allen (Museum Comparative Zoology); Warwick, Franklin County, 

 Massachusetts, Miss A. M. Edmands (same); Amherst, Hampshire 

 County, Massachusetts (Museum Comparative Zoology); Andover, 

 Essex County, Massachusetts ; Maiden and Waltham, Middlesex County, 

 Massachusetts, September 9 (S. Henshaw); Blue Hill, Norfolk County, 

 Massachusetts, August 14, 19 (same); vicinity of Boston and Jamaica 

 Plain, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, August 13, 10 (S. Heushaw; S. 

 H. Scudder); Barnstable, Massachusetts; Provincetown, Barnstable 

 County, September (S. H. Scudder; Museum Comparative Zoology); 

 Naiitucket, Massachusetts, September (S. Henshaw; S. H. Scudder); 

 North Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, August 23 (A. P. 

 Morse); Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, August 18 (same); 

 Colona, Henry County, Illinois, August, J. McNeill; Vigo County, 

 Indiana, W. S. Blatchley; Petroleum, Ritchie County, West Virginia 

 (Museum Comparative Zoology). 



It has also been reported from Staten Island, New York (Davis), New 

 Jersey (Smith), the borders of Lake Michigan, in Indiana (Blatchley), 

 and Nebraska (Bruner), the last, I think, by mistake. 



This species is very closely allied to M. lurldus, but differs in its lack 

 of any projecting part to the furcula. the less divergent forks of the 

 cerci, less elevated, apical margin of the subgenital plate and greater 

 maculation of the tegmiua. 



I first observed this species in Sudbury, Vermont, in August, 1868, 

 abundant in the vicinity of groves in dry upland pastures; compara- 

 tively few M. femur rubrum occurred with them, the latter being found 

 in open sunny spots, and especially in hollows in the lowlands. 

 McNeill, who was the first to find it in the West, says that in Illinois 

 u it is restricted to the tops of bills and tbe sides of ravines which are 

 too barren for pasturage.'' At Provincetown, Massachusetts, I found 

 it at the sandy edges of neglected cranberry beds. According to 

 Blatchley, this species may be found in pairing time u among the leaves 

 and branches of the iron-weed." I found one specimen devouring a per- 

 fectly dry and dead hickory leaf. At the middle of August, in Vermont, 

 the eggs are quite undeveloped, the ovaries lying as mere films on the 



