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acres in the woods, less than a mile distant from Pequaming. 

 The grass growing over the lower portion of this clearing is 

 very thick and high, and it was in this that I found Mecoste- 

 thus for the first time, on the first day of August. On going 

 to this clearing on the morning of that day a new sound met 

 my ears, — a loud, harsh, connected stridulation, repeated at 

 intervals of a few seconds. Following these sounds up, I was 

 at length able to procure several specimens of this beautiful 

 locust. They had all very recently emerged, as indeed all the 

 many specimens I caught a few days later. They were easy 

 to capture with the net as they flew up, but when they hid in 

 the. grass, as they often did on alighting, they were almost 

 impossible to find, as they blended exactly with their sur- 

 roundings. The females did not appear till a week later, 

 and, at the best time of the season, a morning's search would 

 never reveal more than two or three of them ; they were very 

 lubberly and could hardly jump. By September ist almost all 

 had disappeared, and only a few specimens remained of the 

 August host. Life colors : 



" S . General color : — Rich grass green, beautifully shaded 

 and contrasting strongly with the rich carmine of the inner 

 surfaces of the hind femora. 



" 9 . General color : — Yellowish brown, red inner surfaces 

 of hind femora much paler than in the male. ' ' 



Considerable variability in the length of the tegmina is ex- 

 hibited in this series, some males having the tegmina consid- 

 erably exceeding the posterior femora in length, while others 

 have the femora but little surpassed by the tegmina. The 

 females, of course, have this variability very marked. 



Gamnnla pellncida (Scudder). 



Fifty-two specimens ; twenty-nine males, twenty-six fefaiales. 

 Pequaquawaming Point, August 13 (meadow). Pequaming, 

 July 9, 10, II, 12, 14, 18, 23, 26, August I, 8, 12, 18, 20, 21 

 and 31 (meadow, tamarack swamp). L'Anse, July 23 (mea- 

 dow). Baraga Co., September 5 (meadow). 



" This species first appeared on July gth. They were com- 

 mon enough at the outset and increased in numbers till, by 

 the middle of the month, they were swarming in almost every 



