ORTHOPTERA OP" NOVA SCOTIA. — PIERS. 297 



Range. — Canada and northern half of United States from Atlantic to 

 Pacific: from Bay St. George (Nfld.), Nain (Labrador), Anticosti, Magdalen 

 Islds., P. E. Island, Ont., Man., Sask., Alb., and j)erhaps Alaska, .south to 

 New Jers., northern Ind., Iowa, Nebr., Mont., and Wash. Terr. It is thus 

 distributed from the southern portion of the Hudsonian Zone to the high north- 

 ernmost portion of the Upper Austral. 



Reynarks. — Although this distinctly northern form has 

 not yet been reported from Nova Scotia, there can be no 

 doubt whatever that it will be found here and I do not hesi- 

 tate to insert it hypothetically in our list. It should be 

 looked for among low bushes in sandy districts. Bayard. 

 Long obtained five specimens of the short-winged form at 

 Dundee and West River, Both well, Prince Edward Island, 

 late in August, 1912 (E. M. Walker, Can. Ent., 47, p. 341, 

 1915), and it has been reported from Bay St. George in New- 

 foundland (M. Hebard, 1915) and Labrador, while it is com- 

 mon throughout New England. The Prince Edward Island 

 and Newfoundland specimens were all of the short-winged 

 form, sometimes called M. fasciatus curtus Scudder (1879), 

 which is the form which should occur here. The very rare 

 long-winged form sometimes known as M. fasciatus volaticus 

 Scudder, in which the wing-covers are broad and far surpass 

 the hind femora (length 17 mm.), has hitherto only been 

 known from Michigan, although Dr. E. M. Walker has 

 lately reported it from Alright Island in the M.agdalen 

 Islands (Can. Ent., 47, p. 342, 1915). 



17. Melanoplus femur-rubrum (De Geer). Red-legged 

 Locust. 



Caloptenus femur-ruhrum. F. Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. 

 Brit. Mus., iv, 678 (1870); Nova Scotia, etc.— 

 Do., Can. Ent., iv, 30 (1872); Nova Scotia, etc. 



Melanoplus femur-rubrum. Piers, Trans. N. S. Inst. 

 Sc, ix, 215 (1896); Halifax and Windsor, N. S.— 

 Gooderham, Proc. Ent. Soc. N. S. for 1916, 24, 27 

 (1917); Col., Cum., Kings, Hants, Ann., Digby, 

 Yar., Queens, Pict., Vict., and Inver. Cos. 



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