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125. MELANOPLUS FEMORATUS. 

 (Plate XXIV, fig. 4.) 



Caloptenus femoratus BURMEISTER, Handb. Ent., II (1838), p. 638. BRUXXER. Ver- 

 handl. Zool.-Bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1861 (1861), p. 224; Ortli. Stud. (1861), 

 p. 4. WALKER, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus., IV (1870), p. 678. PROVAXCHER, 

 Faune Ent. Can., II (1877), p. 35. 



Acridium miller ti SERVILLE!, Orth. (1839), p. 649. 



Acridium flavomttatum HARRIS, Treat. Ins. Inj. Veg. (1841-42), p. 140; ibid., 2d 

 ed. (1852), p. 151; ibid., 3d ed. (1862), p. 173. FITCH, Ainer. Journ. Agric. 

 Sc., VI (1847), p. 146. EMMOXS, Agric. N. Y., V (1854), p. 147. RATH vox, 

 Rep. U. S. Dep. Agric., 1862 (1862), p. 384. 



Locusta flarovlttata PACKARD, Rep. Nat. Hist. Me. (1861), p. 375. 



Acridium (Caloptenus) femoratum DE HAAX, Bijdr. Kenn. Orth. (1842), p. 144. 



Acridium hudsonium BARXSTOX!, MS. (Brit. Mus.). 



Caloptenus bivittatus UHLER (pars) SAY, Ent. N. A., ed. LeC., II (1859), p. 238. 

 SCUDDER! (pars), Can. Nat., VII (1862), p. 287; (pars), Bost. Journ. Nat. 

 Hist., VII (1862), p. 465. SMITH, Proc. Portl. Soc. Nat. Hist., I (1868), p. 

 150. WALKER, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus., IV (1870), p. 678; Can. Ent.. IV 

 (1872), p. 30. SMITH, Rep. Conn. Bd. Agric., 1872 (1872), pp. 362, 381, fig. 7. 

 GLOVER, 111. N. A. Ent., Orth. (1872), pi. v,. fig. 16. THOMAS (pars), Rep. 

 U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., V (1873), p. 166. PROVAXCHER, Nat. Can., VIII (1876), 

 p. 109. HOWARD, Ins. Life, VII (1895), p. 274. 



Pezottetix edax SAUSSURE!, Rev. Mag. Zool., 1861 (1861), p. 161; Orth. Nov. Am.. 

 II (1861), p. 11. THOMAS, Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., V (1873), p. 152. 

 BRUXER, Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., Ill (1883), p. 59. SMITH, Cat. Ins. N. J. 

 (1890), p. 412. 



Acridium (Caloptenus) bivittatum UHLER (pars), Harr. Treat. Ins. Inj. Veg. (1862), 

 p. 174. 



Podisma edax WALKER, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus., IV (1870), p. 718. 



Melanoplua livittatus SCUDDER! (pars), Hitchc. Rep. Geol. N. H., I (1874), p. 376. 

 SMITH, Bull. N. J. Exp. St., K (1890), p. 41; Cat. Ins. N. J. (1890), p. 413. 

 BLATCHLEY (pars), Can. Eut., XXIII (1891), pp. 99-100. BRUXER (pars), Can. 

 Ent., XXIII (1891), p. 193; (pars), Ins. Life, IV (1891), pp. 21-22, 146; (pars), 

 Rep. Eut. Soc. Ont., XXII (1891), p. 48; (pars), Bull. Div. Ent. U. S. Dep. 

 Agric., XXVIII (1893), pp. 19-21, fig. 8. MORSE (pars), Psyche, VII (1894), 

 p. 106. BEUTENMULLER, Bull. Ainer. Mus. Nat. Hist., VI (1894), p. 308, pi. 

 vin, fig. 8. 



Meianoplua femoratus SCUDDER!, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist , XIX (1878), pp. 285, 

 288; Ent.Notes,VI (1878), pp. 44,47; Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., II (1881), App., 

 p. 24. BRUXER, ibid., Ill (1883), p\ 60; Can. Ent., XVII (1885). p. 18. 

 CAULFIELD, Rep. Ent. Soc. Ont., XVIII (1886), p. 71 ; Can. Eut., XVIII (1886), 

 p. 212. COMSTOCK, Intr. Ent. (1888), pp. 108, 110, fig. 99. FERXALD, Orth.N. 

 E. (1888), pp. 31, 32, fig. 13; Ann. Rep. Mass. Agric. Coll., XXV (1888), pp. 115, 

 116, fig. 13. DAVIS, Ent. Amer., V (1889), p. 81. BRUXER, Publ. Nebr. Acad. 

 Sc., Ill (1893), p. 27. 



Caloptenus (Melanoplua) femoratus CAULFIELD, Can. Rec. Sc., II (1887), p. 401; 

 Can. Orth. (1887), p. 14. 



Melanoplus livittatus femoratus MORSE, Psyche, VII (1894), p. 106. 



-j/ Very variable in brightness of color, but generally dark brownish 

 fuscous, marked, generally heavily, with flavous stripes, flavo-fulvous 

 beneath, the female at least often tinged throughout with olivaceous. 

 Head navous, more or less blotched or suffused with fuscous, blackish 



