52 FURTHER RESEARCHES ON NORTH AMERICAN ACRIDIID^. 



Melanopius scudderi Uhler. 



Arkansas: Blue .Mountain Station; Dardanelle; Fayetteville ; Magazine 



Mountain, 2,000-2,600 feet; Ola; Van Buren; Winslow. 

 Indian Territory: Caddo; Howe; South McAlester; Wilburton. 

 Texas: Myra. 

 Oklahoma: Cache; Shawnee; base and near summit of Mount Sheridan. 



A locally common, even abundant, and very widely distributed 

 species, found in a considerable variety of habitats, either in shrub- 

 bery, edges of woodlands, near thickets, or even grasslands. 



"Two males from Bonita, Texas, which I refer to this species 

 with some doubt, possess exceptionally broad cerci, the depth nearly 

 or quite equaling the length, the lower margin very strongly convex. 

 To this form I have provisionally applied the name latus" (Psyche, 

 xin, 122, 1906.) 



Melanoplus strumosus Morse. 

 Georgia: Sand Mountain. 

 Alabama: Lookout Mountain. 



This species, discovered in Florida and South Carolina on the first 

 trip, proves to be more widely distributed than was thought at that 

 time, reaching the Upper Austral zone and an altitude of 1,600 feet or 

 more. At Sand Mountain it was not uncommon among the under- 

 growth of shrubs and herbage in the forests; at this time (July 8) the 

 young greatly outnumbered the adults. 



Melanoplus tepidus Morse. 



Melanoplus tepidus. Psyche, xm, 121, 1906. 



Mississippi: Meridian. Three males, three females. 

 " This species most closely approximates^/, obovatipennis y agree- 

 ing with it in size and general coloration, but may be distinguished 

 from it by the following characters : The subgenital plate of the male 

 feebly but distinctly tuberculate subapically ; the upper valves of the 

 ovipositor of the female narrower at base in side view ; the pronotum 

 is more elongate and slightly inflated, its sides and top slightly convex 

 instead of straight, its lateral lobes less deep, and the longitudinal 

 fuscous stripe thereon broader anteriorly, of nearly equal width 

 throughout, covering one-half or more of their depth; the tegmina 

 are slightly more elongate, the eyes of the male are large and very 

 prominent, and the vertex of the head narrower, more prominent, and 

 rather deeply sulcate." 



Melanoplus tribuloides Morse. 



Melanoplus tribuloides. Psyche, xin, 121, 1906. 



Alabama: Cheaha Mountain; Turnipseed's Ranch. 



