A KOCK KIMMON CATCH. 



Containing Additionai. Spi:ciks of Orthoptkra Note:d 

 IN THE Vicinity of Manchfstfr. 



BY MISS SUSY C. FOGG. 



Westward of our city lies Rock Rimmon, that bold outcrop- 

 ping in the chain of granitic ledges which surround our valley. 

 The sun and shadows of passing clouds play upon it till, with the 

 vari-tinted mists that often envelop it, all the moods of a moun- 

 tain are displayed upon its rugged face, but none can know the 

 friendliness and shelter of this great rock like the innumerable 

 creeping and crawling things that live among its crevices and 

 conceive of its having no other use than to afford them oppor- 

 tunity for basking in the sunshine. 



Upon the rock, and the barren sandy plains at its base, scanti- 

 ly clothed with stunted oaks, pines and wiry grass, we find great 

 numbers of the Acrididse, which rise up, multiply and disap- 

 pear, with scarcely their usual check from human source or more 

 natural enemies. In two hours' time, on a warm day during 

 the second week of September, I was able to locate fifteen spe- 

 cies of Acrididse within small area. This list may be of inter- 

 est, as follows : 



Sub-Family Tryxalinee. 



1 Cliloealtis conspersa Harris. 



2 Steiiobotliriis ciirtipeniiis Harris. 



3 Orpliulella speciosa Scudder. 



Sub-Family CEdipodinse. 



4 Arpliia Xaiitlioptera Burmeister. 



5 Spliarag'eiiion collare Scudder. 



6 Spliarag'emon bolli Scudder. 

 H Scirtetica marmorata Harris. 



8 Dissosteira Carolina Scudder. 



9 Encoptoloplius sordidus Burmeister. 

 10 Psinidia feiiestralis Serville. 



