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Louis, Missouri, October 10 (same); Kirkwood, Saint Louis County, 

 Missouri, SepttMuber (i, October (same); Husbberjf, .lertersou County, 

 Missouri, Au<fust24 (same); Mississippi (L. Bruner); Texas, September 

 20, October 13, Belt'ra^'e ; Dallas, Texas, lioll ( S. H. Scudder ; U.S.N.M.— 

 Riley collection); Fort Wortb, Tarrant County, Texas (II.S.N.M. — 

 Kiley collection). 



It lias also been reported from New Jersey (Smitb), Ithaca, New York 

 (Comstock), Normal, McLean County, Illinois (Thomas), various i)Mrts 

 of Kentucky (Garman), Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas (P>runer), 

 and, with doubt, by Thomas from Colorado "subalpine'' and southern 

 Colorado. 



The si)ecies varies to a considerable degree, as appears in part from 

 tlie above description. Texan specimens have the te«;:mina uniformly 

 less acuminate apically and a longer furcula. Occasionally the tegmnia 

 are considerably longer than the i)ronotum, as appears especially in a 

 pair sent me by Professor 11. Garman from Kentucky. Specimens 

 from southern New England appear uni/orraly somewhat smaller tlian 

 others, while there is no difference in size between specimens from 

 Maryland and Texas. 



Walsh, supposing the species here described as M. irtfhhii to be the 

 true ^f. sciidderi, immed the present species in his letters rtzotittir 

 nibricrus, and I still ])ossess several specimens sent me by him in 18(>.j 

 under that name. Examination of the types of Tliler and Thonuis 

 show that sciulderi and unicohr are identical, as McNeill thought. 



Kiiey states that this species attains nmturityin the vicinity of Saint 

 1 ouis, Missouri, about September 1, and begins to oviposit on Septcm 

 bev 24. The eggs have a quadrilinear arrangement in the pod. Uliler 

 found it abundant near Baltimore, Maryland, on *'the sides of higli 

 hills," Beutenmiiller about New York City in "dry places," and Com- 

 stock about Ithaca, New York, '*among scattered trees on the crests 

 and slopes of our highest hills." In the West, however, Allen found it 

 in Iowa "•common in grassy groves" and "on prairies," while McNeill 

 says that in Illinois it "'is very frequently found along roadsides or in 

 pastures," and in Indiana Blatchley finds it "in open woods and 

 pastures." 



42. MELANOPLUS GILLETTEI, new species. 



(Plate XIV, tig. 7.) 



Of rather small size, blackish fuscous, testaceous beneath. Head 

 not prominent, brownish fuscous deepening in tint above and flecked 

 with testaceous below, the clyi)eus and labrum testaceous, flecked with 

 fuscous; vertex rather feebly tumid, not elevated above the pronotum, 

 the interspace between the eyes twice as broad as the first antennal 

 Joint; fastigium steeply declivent, rather feebly sulcate; frontal costa 

 lading well before the clypeus, feebly narrowed above, as broad as the 

 interspace between the eyes, faintly sulcate at and below the ocellus, 

 biseriately punctate; eyes moderately large, not very prominent, some- 



