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than general coloration, pinkish cinnamon, with genicular areas warm sepia 

 and dorsal surfaces showing two broad transverse bands of mikado brown. 

 Caudal tibiae as in male. 



In females of maximum recessive coloration the entire insect is pinkish cin- 

 namon, the postocular bar obsolete, the tegmina and dorsal surfaces of the 

 caudal femora practically immaculate. 



Specimens Examined: 84; 41 males, 37 females and 6 immature females. 



Georgia: Bainbridge. 



The entire series of adults, in addition to the type and allo- 

 type, may be considered paratypes. The series was taken by 

 Rehn and Hebard on September 5 and 6, 1915. The species 

 was found common in oak shoots in areas of sandy soil overgrown 

 with oaks, and occasional among the scant grasses and plants 

 growing on sandy soil, in the higher areas of the long-leaf pine 

 woods near Bainbridge. Its habits much resembled those of 

 scudderi. 



Although this species was the sole member of the group found 

 generally distributed in the oak and long-leaf pine woods at Bain- 

 bridge, it was absent from the undergrowth of the long-leaf pine 

 woods growing in the narrow strip of flood-plain bordering the 

 Flint River. In this latter locality, among scant plants, grasses 

 and vines, scudderi, instead, was found. 



Melanoplus pegasus new species (Plate XXXI, fig. 8.) 



1916. Melanoplus furcatus Rehn and Hebard (not Melanoplus furcatus Scud- 

 der, 1897), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1916, p. 244. [Billy's Island, Jor- 

 dan's on Billy's Island and Honey Island, all in Okeefenokee Swamp, 

 Georgia.] 



The present insect is closely related to M. furcatus Scudder 

 (see plate XXXI, fig. 7), and belongs to the Clypeatus Group. 

 From furcatus it differs in the more solid coloration, in this respect 

 closely resembling M. clypeatus (Scudder), and in the form of the 

 male cerci, which show a further specialization of the type found 

 in furcatus, the branches of the forked distal portion being more 

 elongate and slender, and the ventral branch exceeding the dorsal 

 branch in length. 



With the unique male, type of furcatus, and a single male of the 

 present species before them, Rehn and Hebard were, in 1916, 

 unable to ascertain whether the differences found were specific 



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