272 vti(tcKKinsiifi nr riff-: xatioxal mi'sfj-m. touxx. 



inu».. teniaU*, <► iiiin.: te«;iiiiiia, iiiaN*. 14 uiin., teiimle, l."> mm. : liiml 

 femora, male. HM' mm., female, 12.2 mm. 



Seven males. W females. Coast of Labrador, beyond the timber line, 

 at latitude 51P north, Jewdl D. .Sornberger (specimens collected in 

 spirits). 



Fieber also reports it from (ireenhnnl and Xorth Cape, Norway. It is, 

 however, not included in the Kuropean fauna either by II. Fischer or by 

 IJiumier von Wattenwyl; yet Fieber credits specimens to the Vienna 

 Museum, in which city Brunner lives. Flofrath r.runner writes rae that 

 he pcissesses specimen-^; from Lalu'ador, Hudson Bay, and Valdivia. 

 Chile. I can not fori>ear exjiresslng a doubt about the accuracy of this 

 last locality. 



As MvlnuttjtJuH and Vinlixmti are the genera of Melanopli most abun 

 dant in forms ami most widely spread, the former being especially true 

 of MvlmtopUiH^ and as the present fcuin is the species of Mrlanoithis 

 most nearly allied to Podisma, and, like most of the species of the 

 latter genus, is peculiar to high latitiules or altitudes, it seems proper 

 to regard M. hortalis as an archaic form. perha])s more nearly than any 

 other resembling the original form frou) which the Melanopli as a whole 

 have descended. 



Mr. Samuel Ilenshaw recently compared for me a female specimen of 

 this species from Labrador with Walker's type of Calopienus arrtictis 

 in the British Museum. He found tli^m to agree except in length ot 

 wings, which in Walker's specimen, a uni(|ue, "extend sligiitly beyond 

 the abdomen ;" the prosternal spine was the same. I have accordingly 

 introduced it in the synonymy with a question mark; if it belongs her*' 

 the range of the species should be extended to whatever point it Uiay 

 have been in •• Arctic America" that Doctor llie collec^ted his specimei. 



The specimens which 1 have seen were taken by Mr. Sornbergcr 

 August 15-U» at ths Es(|uimau\ village of Bama. He tells me that 

 they were all taken on the banks of a mountain brook fed by the nudt- 

 ing snows of the sutnmit near by. They were most abundant where 

 tlie vegetation was most luxuriant at the bo:dersof the brook; noiu' 

 were found below an elevation of 200 feet no)- above l.oOO feet, at whidi 

 altitude herbaceous ]»lants became few and scattering. Mr. Sornbcr- 

 ger can not say upon what it fed. but it was not found on any of 

 the shrubby i>lanls common there — Betula. Vaccinium, Ledum. Salix. 

 Kmiietrum, etc., though he thinks he saw it on some of the Cyperaceac 



IS. ALLENI SERIES. 



In this sm.iU series the prozona of the male is slightly longitudinal, 

 and the interspace between the mesosternal lobes in the same sex only 

 a little longer than broad. The anteniuie are very long. The tegmina 

 are always abbreviate, but vary considerably, being either ellipti<al. 

 attingent. and about as long as the pronotum, oi- lanceolate, overlap 

 ping and reaching a little beyond the middle of the hind femora. The 



