32 NORTH AMERICAN ACRIDIID^E. 



Austral zone. A very plentiful and widely distributed species 

 occurring from southern New England to the Gulf. In New Eng- 

 land it is most common in grassy fields on wet soil, near the mar- 

 gins of ponds and streams; in the South and the Central States it is 

 more commonly found in rank herbage along ditches and streams 

 and the edges of moist woodlands. Its haunts are thus intermediate 

 in character between those of a campestral and a sylvan species and 

 so likewise are the structural adaptations presented by it, a very 

 large proportion of the females being brachypterous. 



Qinocephaltts elegans Morse. 



Virginia : Virginia Beach, Sept. 7. 



Georgia : Tybee Island, Aug. 12, 13, (juv.) ; Waycross, Aug. n, (juv. 3, 4, 5). 



Florida: (De Funiak Springs, Aug. 5, juv. 4); (Carrabelle, Aug. 9, juv.s); 



Warrington, Aug. 4, (juv. 4). 

 Alabama: Flomaton, Aug. i, (juv. 3, 4, 5). 



Austral zones, coastwise. This species is not rare in grassy 

 marshes and wet spots in the Coastal Plain at no great distance 

 inland. 



Chloealtis conspersa Harris. 



Virginia : Wytheville. Sept. 4, 3300 feet. 



North Carolina : Balsam, July 24, Aug. 19, (juv. 5), 5500 to 6000 feet. 



Transition and Canadian zones. A very few examples of this 

 boreal species were taken at high elevations, amid or on the edges of 

 shrubby growths near the summit of Jones Peak and Steestachee 

 Bald in the Balsam Mountains, and not far from the High Rocks at 

 Wytheville. (See page 22 on "burning over" as a factor in 

 distribution.) 



Stenobothrus curtipennis Harris. 



North Carolina : Balsam, July 24, 4500 to 5700 feet ; Cranberry, Aug. 28 ; 

 Grandfather Mountain, Aug. 29, 4500 to 5000 feet, (juv. 5) ; Linville, 

 July 17, 18, (juv. 5), Aug. 30, (juv. 5); Roan Mountain July 15, (juv. 

 2, 3, 4), Aug. 31, Sept. i, (juv. 5); Roan Valley, July 16, (juv. 3, 4, 5). 



Transition and Canadian zones. This boreal species is plenti- 

 ful in the campestral areas of the higher mountains, both in the 

 valley clearings and on the sedgy lawns of Roan Mountain, at an 

 altitude of 5,500 to 6,300 feet. It is a lover of moisture and its 

 favorite haunts are in the dense and succulent growth along streams 

 and in wet meadows and moist fields. It presents the customary 

 variations in structure and color characteristic of the species in its 

 northern haunts. 



