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AV. 8. Blatchley); Michigan, M. Miles; Bear Lake, Michigan (T.S. 

 X.M. Riley collection); Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba; Illinois, Uhler, 

 Stromberg (8. Henshaw; S. H. Scudder); Moline, Rock Island County, 

 Illinois, McNeill; Denison, Crawford County, Iowa, J. A.Allen; Mis- 

 souri, (U.S.N.M. Eiley collection); Fort Robinson, Dawes County r 

 Nebraska, Bruner (same); Colorado, 5,500 feet, Morrison ; Cheyenne* 

 Laramie County, Wyoming, Osten Sacken; Evanston, Uiuta County, 

 Wyoming, 6,800 feet, August G; Steele, Wyoming (U.S.N.M. Riley 

 collection); Calgary, Alberta, June 15 (S. Henshaw); British Columbia 

 (same); Vancouver Island, British Columbia, H. Edwards; Vancouver 

 Island, Britisli Columbia, Crotch (Museum Comparative Zoology); 

 Washington, Morrison (S. Henshaw); Mount Shasta district, California, 

 H. Edwards; Sissons, Siskiyou County, California (Museum Compara- 

 tive Zoology); Los Angeles, California, Coquillett (U.S.N.M. Eiley 

 collection). 



It has also been reported from Hudson Bay (Walker); Quebec, 

 Canada (Provancher), and Carolina (Burmeister, Saussure). Its range 

 in the eastern part of the country is therefore from Hudson Bay to 

 North Carolina, on the Pacific Coast from Vancouver to southern 

 California, while in the interior, south of Canada, it occurs in less 

 abundance as far south as latitude 40 or thereabouts. 



An examination of three females in Vermont in the middle of August 

 showed thirty-nine eggs in the ovaries on one side and thirty on the 

 other of the first; forty-five on one side and forty-two on the otherof the 

 second; and thirty eight on each side of the third, the total number of 

 eggs varying from sixty-nine to eighty-seven. A fourth female had no 

 eggs in the ovaries, but the abdomen was filled with a filariau worm 

 at least two feet long; the eggs are pale yellow. 



This insect is very fond of perching by the roadside on the broad 

 leaves of Inula helenium, sunning itself. 



126. MELANOPLUS BIVITTATUS. 

 (Plate XXIV, fig. 5.) 



Gryllus binttatus SAY, Jonrn. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad., IV (1825), p. 308; Ent. 

 N. A., ed. LeC., II (1859), p. 237. 



Acridium (Opsomala) bivittatum DE HAAX, Bijdr. Kenn. Orth. (1842), p. 144. 



Caloptenus birittatua 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. WALSH, RILEY, Amer. Ent,, I (1868), p. 16. PACKARD, 

 Guide Ins. (1869), p. 570. THOMAS, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad., 1870 (1870), 

 p. 78; Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., II (1871), p. 265. DODGE, Can. 

 Ent., IV (1872), p. 15. SCUDDER, Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Nebr. (1872), pp. 

 250, 259. GLOVER, 111. N. A. Ent., Orth. (1872), pi. i, fig. 16. THOMAS (pars), 

 Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., V (1873), p. 166; Key 111. Orth. (1874-75), 

 p. 3. SCUDDER!, Daws. Rep. Geol. Rec. 49th Par. (1875), p. 343. RILEY, Ann. 

 Rep. Ins. Mo., VII (1875), pp. 124, 173, fig. 34. THOMAS, Proc. Dav. Acad. 

 Nat. Sc., I (1876), p. 261. SCUDDER!, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., II (1876), 

 p. 261. WHITMAN, Grasshopper (1876), p. 19, fig. UHLER, Bull. U. S. Geol. 



