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careful students such as Say, Uhler and Walsh had given 

 no little attention to the insects of the group to which it 

 belongs and would almost certainly have encountered it 

 in their work, if it had been present in any abundance, 

 in different parts of the country where it now occurs. 



Third : It has shown a gradual westward and southward dis- 

 persal as indicated by the available records of occur- 

 rence. This shows occurrence in New England in 1832, 

 Maryland 1868, Quebec 1872, New York 1887, Ohio 

 1888 (?), 111. 1906, Kentucky 1908. 



Fourth : It is adapted to certain cultivated grasses which were 

 introduced from Europe and its close restriction to these 

 and apparent inability to adapt itself to native grasses 

 even of as large forms as the cultivated ones is very 

 significant. 



Fifth: In the plan of hibernation of eggs in stems, there is 

 evidently furnished abundant opportunity for the trans- 

 portation of eggs to distant points in hay shipped for 

 forage or packing. 



Distribution in Maine 



The species has certainly been present and abundant in 

 Maine for many years but except for the notes by Prof. H. 

 T. Fernald there does not appear to have been any record that 

 assists in determining the time of its appearance or the extent 

 of distribution. The Experiment Station collection contains 

 several specimens those bearing dates for Orono being July 

 14th and i8th 1905 and July nth 1907, all being adults and Dr. 

 Patch published a record of its abundance in 1908. As men- 

 tioned elsewhere the writer noted it as abundant ir 1914 at 

 Orono. Prof. C. L. Metcalf took specimens and noticed the 

 species as abundant in late instars and adult males at Fort Kent 

 July 5th and 6th, at Presque Isle mostly adults on July 8th 

 and at Houlton as adults with few nymphs of late instars on 

 July 9th for the summer of 19 16. The writer found them 

 abundant at Phillips and other points where timothy meadows 

 were examined between Farmington and Dallas on July i8th 

 1916 and also very plentiful in some old meadow land in the 

 vicinity of Saddleback Lake on July 19th and 20th. None oc- 



