100 rBOCEEDlNGS OF TUE XATJOXAL MUSEUM. vouxx. 



conical, cndiiij; in a blunt but not large tubercle, the a{)ical margin 

 scarcely elevated, angulate, entire. 



The colons of the above description. Avhich are taken ironi life, are, 

 unless otherwise specified, drawn entirely from the female, as the sexes 

 differ considerably. The male differs in the following particulars: The 

 front of the head and thcpronotum arc more yellowish, the prosternnm 

 black, the spine uniform i)alc green, the meso and mctasterna bright 

 green, the sternum of the abdomen yellowish-green, slightly i>aler than 

 the thorax, with the basal border of the segments broadly bordered 

 with black and the apical narrowly with fuscous; the whole dorsal 

 surface of the abdomen is black with a mediodorsal series of yellowish- 

 green spots and a triangular spot of the same between the middle and 

 hind coxae; a lateral row of greenish-yellow spots on the tirst eight 

 abdonn'nal segments, each with a dark arcuate streak above it, oi)ening 

 toward the brownish spiracles. 



Length of body, male, HI mm., female, 26 mm.; antennae, male, 8.5 

 mm., female, 9 mm.; hind femora, male, 9.25 mm., female, 12 mm. 



Twenty-one males, 37 females. Maine ( U.8.N.M. [No.72-lJ. — Riley col- 

 lection); Magalloway Kiver, Oxford County, Maine, Sanborn (Museum 

 Comparative Zoology); Speckled Mountain, Oxford County, Maine, 

 2,000 feet ( ?), S. I. Smith, same (A. P. Morse); Mount Kearsarge, New 

 Hampshire, 3,250 feet (A. P. Morse); Presidential Range, White Moun- 

 tains, New Hampshire, 4,000 to 5,400 feet (S. H. Scudder; Museum 

 Comparative Zoology; A. P. Morse); Grey lock, Berkshire County, 

 Massachusetts, 3,500 feet (A. P. Morse; S. H. Scudder); Mount Marcy, 

 Adirondacks, New York, 5,400 feet, F. (t. Sanborn; Chateaugay Lake, 

 Adirondacks, New York, 2,000 feet, F. C. Bowditch; Sudbury, Ontario, 

 Canada, about 1,000 feet. 



Excepting Jackman, Maine (Harvey), the only other place from which 

 it has been reported is '* British America" (Bruner), but without further 

 specification Professor Bruner now thinks this was a mistake. Mr. 

 Morse tells me that he has specimens taken on Kataadn, Maine, 5,200 

 feet. 



In the White Mountains 1 have found this grasshopper from the 

 neighborhood of the snow arch in Tuckermans Ravine (about 4,000 

 feet) to the base of the rocky slopes on the side of Mount Washington 

 above the Alpine Garden, and at the summit of Mount Madison (5,380 

 feet) at about the same elevation. 1 have also taken it at the upper 

 limits of Huntingtons Ravine and about the ledge on the carriage road. 

 It freiiuents the close branches of the dwarf birch, Beiula nana, and is 

 rarely or never seen on the ground. c > 



Of the European insects, it is most nearly allied to Pod. baldensis, but 

 is a CO isiderably larger insect, with heavier and stouter cerci and slen- 

 derer and longer furcula. 



