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^V. S. lUatcliley); Michigan, M. Miles: Bear Lake, Miciii.uan . T.S. 

 N.M. — Kiley eolleetioii): Lake Winiiipe<;, Manitoba; Illinois, Lliler, 

 Stroniheig (S. Henshaw: S. H. Seu<l(ler); Moliiie, Kock Island County, 

 Illinois, MeXeill: Denison, Crawford County, Iowa, J. A. Allen; Mis- 

 souri, (U.S.X.M. — Kiley eollection); Fort Ivobinson, Dawes County, 

 Nebraska, liruner (same); Colorado, ."),,")()0 feet, Morrison ; Cheyenne, 

 Laramie County, Wyoming, OstenSacken; Evanstnn, LTinta County, 

 \Vy(miing, 0,s(H) feet, August G; Steele, Wyoming (C.S.N.M.— L'iley 

 colleetion); Calgary, Alberta, June 15 (S. Ilenshaw); liritish Columbia 

 (same); Vancouver Island, liritish Columbia, H. Edwards: X'ancouver 

 Island. British Columbia, Crotch (Museum Comparative Zoology); 

 Washington. Morrison (8. II Mishaw): Mount Shasta district, California, 

 H. Edwards: Sissoiis, Siskiyou C<ainty. California (Museum Com])ara- 

 tive /oology); Los Angeles, California, Coquillett (CS.N.M. — Riley 

 collection). 



It has also been reported fron Hudson Bay (Walker); (^)uebec, 

 Canada { Provancher), and Carolina (Burmeister, Saussure). Its range 

 in the eastern part of the country is therefore from Hudson Bay to 

 North Carolina, on the Pacific Coast from A'ancouver to south<Mn 

 California, while in the interior, south of Canada, it occurs in less 

 abundance as far south as latitude 40" or thereabouts. 



An examination of three females iii Vermont in the mi<ldle of August 

 showed thirty-nine eggs in the ovaries on one side and thirty on the 

 other of the first; forty-five on one side and forty two on the otherof the 

 second; and thirtyeiglit on each side of the third, the total nuniber of 

 eggs varying from sixty-nine to eighty-seven. A fourth female had no 

 eggs in the ovaries, but the abdomen was filled with a tilarian worm 

 id bust ttvo feet long; loe eggs are pale yellow. 



This insect is very fond of i>erching by the roadside on the broad 

 leaves of Inula heUnlum, sunning itself. 



126. MELANOPLUS BIVITTATUS. 



(Plate XXIV. fij;. .5.) 



GnjUiis hirittaiiis Say, Jonrn. Acad. Nat. Sc. rhilad., IV (1S2.'>), p. 308; Knt. 

 N. A . ♦■il. LeC, II (iSoD), p. 237. 



Acridium [Opxomala) hh'itUdinn Dk Haan, Bi.jdr. Keiin. Orth. (1842), p. 144. 



(<ilopte)tii8 hiritlalHs rnLEli (pars) Say, Eut. X. A., «m1. LeC ., II (1S5U), p. 23s. — 

 Scci>i>Ki! I (pars). Can. Nat., VII ( ist;2 >. p. 287: (pars). Host. .lourn. Nat. Hist., 

 VII (18o2), p. lax— Walsh, Kilev, Aiiier. Ent., I (1S{)8), p. 16.— Packako^ 

 (;ui<le Ins. ( 1869), p. 570.— Thomas, Proc. Acad. Nat. So. Philad., 1870 il870), 

 p. 78; Anu. Hep. U. S. Gtol. Surv. Terr., II (1871), p. 2r)5.— Dodgk. Can. 

 Ent.. IV (1872), p. 15.— Sci:i»I)EH, Rep. T'. 8. Geol. Surv. Neltr. (1S72). ]tp. 

 2.50, 2.">9.— Gl »vek. 111. N. A. Ent.. Orth. 1 1872), pi. i. tig. 16.— Thomas (pars), 

 Rejt. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., V (1873), p. 166; Key 111. Orth. (1874-75), 

 1». 3.— Scudder!, Daws. Kep. Geol. Rec. 4t»th Par. (1875), p. 343.— Rir.EV. Ann. 

 Rep. Ins. Mo., VII (1875), pp. 124, 173, fior. .34.— Thomas. Proo. Dav. Acad. 

 Nat. Sc, I (1876^. p. 261.— Sc tnoER:, Bull. U. .^. Geol. Surv. Terr., II (1876), 

 p. 261. — Whitman, Grassb(>i>per (1876), p. 19, fig. — Uhlek, Bull. 17. S. Geol. 



