374 NEW NORTH AMERICAN MELANOPLI (ORTHOPTERA) 



At Memphis the species was very scarce in patches of lush 

 weedy plants in a heavy deciduous swamp forest, while two 

 specimens were found after long search in the undergrowth of 

 a heavy upland deciduous forest, which undergrowth was com- 

 posed of many low shoots and a little coarse grass. At Green- 

 ville it was found in the undergrowth of a bayou forest. At 

 Strickton it was generally distributed through a dense river- 

 swamp deciduous forest, where the ground was generally bare 

 but with few weedy plants and areas of coarse swamp grass, and 

 it was even more frequently encountered in a short-leaf pine and 

 oak forest on slightly higher ground, in undergrowth composed 

 of ferns, grape and other vines, cane and a variety of plants. 

 At Hattiesburg the series was taken in the deep shade of a high 

 and heavy deciduous forest, where the scanty undergrowth was 

 composed of partridge-berry and some grape and raspberry 

 vines. 20 



At Natchez the species occurred in moderate numbers in a 

 heavy deciduous forest, among tangles of raspberry and ground 

 vines, at the base of the slopes of a ravine in the bluff formation. 

 At Lafayette it was found in undergrowth composed of swamp 

 grasses and low plants, weeds and vines of a tall open forest of 

 tupelo, oaks and cypress near a bayou, and also in the rather 

 scanty undergrowth of the heavy deciduous bayou forest. 



Melanoplus alabamae new species (Plate XVIII figs. 6 and 7.) 



This handsome grasshopper is a member of the Querneus Group 

 and is very closely related to M . querneus Rehn and Hebard, 21 

 differing apparently in the slightly smaller size and slightly more 

 slender form, but strikingly in the shape of the male cerci. 



20 One female contained ninety-three gordius worms, each about two inches 

 long; another five such worms, each about three inches long. We believe 

 the infestation of the first specimen to be the maximum recorded for an Orth- 

 opterous insect. 



2] At the time querneus was described the species belonging to this group 

 were referred to the "Fasciatus Group" by Rehn and Hebard (Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci., Phila., 1916, p. 231.). From our present knowledge of the species 

 of Melanoplus we find that assignment to be incorrect, fasciatus (F. Walker) 

 being a type more closely related to the phylum to which borealis 

 (Fieber) belongs. 



