MORGAN HEBARD 401 



Caudal tibiae dark olive buff becoming brownish buff proximad and distad, 

 with a small black annulus near base. 



Specimens Examined: 29; 13 males and 16 females. 



New York: West Point, VI, 14, 1914, (W. T. Davis), 4cf,79, [Davis 

 Cln.]. 



New Jersey: Plainfield, VIII, 4, 1907, (W. T. Davis; on ridge to west of 

 town), 1 9 , [Davis Cln.]. 



Virginia: Collison Ridge, Bath County, 3200 feet, VII, 5 and 8, 1916, 

 (M. Hebard), 6 d 71 , 5 9 , type, allotype and paratypes, [Hebard Cln.]. Snick- 

 ers Gap near Bluemont, V, 28, 1914, (W. T. Davis), 1 9 , [Davis Cln.]. 



West Virginia: White Sulphur Springs, VII, 2 and 3, 1919, (W. T. Davis), 

 2^,19, [Davis Cln.]. 



Tennessee: Mayland, Cumberland Plateau, Cumberland County, VI, 

 9, 1920, (S. Markovitch, in sylvan surroundings), 1 d", 1 9, [Hebard Cln.]. 



During the summer of 1916, the author collected constantly 

 in the vicinity of Hot Springs, Virginia. The mountain ridges 

 in this region are numerous and all but the highest are covered 

 with heavy deciduous forests. On one of these, Collison Ridge, 

 the typical series was taken at 3200 feet, just below the summit 

 of the ridge, at its southwestern extremity, on the eastern slope, 

 One small colony was found on July 5, when an intensive search 

 was made. On July 8 this was repeated, four more individuals 

 being secured in the original spot and close by in another similar 

 area. For a month from this date we were constantly on the 

 lookout for this species, no others being found at the original 

 spot or elsewhere. The series was secured in the forest under- 

 growth of mountain laurel, huckleberry and other knee-high to 

 waist-high bushes. The males were the more active, remaining 

 up in the bushes and slipping through them rapidly, or springing 

 from twig to leaf, but never to the ground. 



We believe calloplus to be a thamnophilous sylvan species, 

 occurring in widely scattered colonies. It may well be termed 

 a late spring form, appearing adult probably earlier than the 

 great majority of the Melanopli. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLVI. 



