NORTH AMERICAN ACRIDIID^E. 43 



Melanoplus impodicos Scudd. 



North Carolina : Murphy, July 25. 



South Carolina : Denmark, Aug. 15 ; Spartanburg, Aug. 16. 



Georgia : Blue Ridge, July 25 ; Sand Mountain, Aug. 25. 



Austral zones. A widely distributed but apparently local 

 species ranging in the austral zones from New Jersey on the Atlantic 

 slope southward, through South Carolina and Georgia, northward 

 into Indiana. The specimens taken were found in dry, grassy 

 fields, an environment very similar to that preferred by atlanis. 

 Melanoplus femur-rubfum DeG. 



Virginia : Appomattox, Sept. 6 ; Norfolk, Sept. 8 ; Roanoke, Sept. 6 ; 



Virginia Beach, Sept. 7 ; Wytheville, Sept. 4. 



North Carolina : Cranberry, Aug. 28 ; Governor Island, Aug. 20 ; Grand- 

 father Mountain, Aug. 29 ; Linville, Aug. 30; Roan Mountain, Sept. i; 

 Topton, Aug. 21, 3000 feet. 

 Georgia: Sand Mountain, Aug. 25; Stone Mountain, July 28; West 



Point, July 30. 



Alabama : Flomaton, Aug. 2. 



Tennessee: Chattanooga, Aug. 24; Johnson City, Aug. 27; Morristown, 

 Aug. 27 ; Roan Mountain Station, Sept. 3. 



Lower Austral in part, Upper Austral, Transition, and Canadian 

 zones, in humid campestral stations. This species is much less 

 plentiful and less generally distributed as a whole in the Southern 

 than in the Northern States, and in the Gulf strip of the Lower 

 Austral gives place to the next species, propinquus. The Flomaton 

 specimens are intermediate between the two species in length of 

 furcula and form of cerci, though perhaps more closely approaching 

 femur-rubrum. The largest examples of this species which I have 

 ever seen are those obtained at Norfolk. 



Melanoplus propinquus Scudd. 



South Carolina : Denmark, Aug. 15. 

 Georgia: Savannah, Aug. 14 ; Tybee Island, Aug 12, 13. 

 Florida : De Funiak Springs, Aug. 5 ; Fort Barrancas, Aug. 3 ; Live Oak, 

 Aug. 10 ; Marianna, Aug. 6 ; Tallahassee, Aug. 8; Warrington, Aug. 4. 



Lower Austral zone, Gulf Strip. Campestral, in grassy fields, 

 meadows, and swamps. 



Melanoplus luridus Dodge. 



Virginia : Roanoke, Sept. 6 ; Wytheville, Sept. 4, 5- 



North Carolina : Linville, Aug. 30 ; Murphy, Aug. 22 ; Pineola, Aug. 28 ; 



Roan Mountain, Sept. i, 5000 to 5500 feet ; Saluda, Aug. 17 ; Topton, 



Aug. 21, 3000 to 4000 feet ; 

 Georgia : Sand Mountain, Aug. 25. 

 Tennessee: Chattanooga, Aug. 24; Johnson City, Aug. 27; Lookout 



Mountain, Aug. 23. 



