Sept., '04] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 23 1 



Pequaming Bay, leaving just room for the wagon road from 

 Pequaming to L'Anse. Along this road, among the drift- 

 wood, the Orthoptera fairly swarmed. The geological forma- 

 tion of Pequaming Point is of three distinct varieties ; the end 

 on which Pequaming is situated was formed by the action 

 of water, which piled a great mass of boulders and stones ; a 

 very small amount of earth now covers these, and consequently 

 the surrounding pastures are rocky ; the ground rises a short 

 distance from the town, and it is there that the cliffs of soft 

 red sandstone commence ; a little over half a mile further out 

 the stone changes abruptly to a much harder gray sandstone ; 

 the vegetation is, however, not affected, the top soil being all 

 the same. The point is covered with a dense forest, in the 

 higher and drier portions composed of maple, birch, oak, bal- 

 sam, spruce, hemlock and pine, — the maple greatly predomi- 

 nating and the conifers much scattered. In the swampy por- 

 tions the woods are denser and there is considerable white 

 cedar. Over all the undergrowth is so dense that in hardly 

 any place can one see more than fifty yards through the forest. 

 The undergrowth is chiefly soft maple, balsam and hazel, and 

 the ground is carpeted with ferns, lichens, mosses and grasses. 

 The most beautiful tree in the fall is the mountain ash, when 

 its clusters of bright red berries contrast splendidly with the 

 green woods. 



' ' I found the Coleoptera collecting splendid in the clearings 

 here and there in the woods, but Orthoptera were scarce except- 

 ing in the fields and along the roads." 



The specimens simply credited to "Baraga Co." are from 

 points within a few miles of Pequaming, such localities being 

 without geographic names and but slightly different from the 

 other localities mentioned. 



The general character of the Orthopterous fauna of this 

 region is distinctly Boreal, practically no trace of Carolinian 

 or Sonoran types being found. This is, of course, fully in 

 accord with the evidence of the mammals and birds of the 

 section. 



BLATTIDiE. 



Periplaneta americana (Linn.). 



" One immature specimen, taken in store, June 30, 1903." 



