348 NORTH AMERICAN MELANOPLI (ORTHOPTERA) 



(E. S. Thomas), 4 cP, 3 9 . Washington Township, Jackson County, VII, 

 11, 1933, (C. F. Walker), 2 d\ 3 9- Madison Township, Jackson County, 

 VI, 25, 1932, (Thomas and Stehr), 11 d", 2 9 . Fort Hill, Highland County, 

 VI, 26 and VII, 22, 1933, (E. S. Thomas), 3 d" , 2 9 . Jaybird, Adams County, 

 VI, 18, 1933, (E. S. Thomas), 1 tf. [All Ohio State Mus.]. 



Tennessee: Allardt, Fentress County, 1600 feet, VI, 10 to VII, 19, 1924 

 and 1925, (T. H. Hubbell; only two females after June 11), 59 cf, 44 9, 

 2 juv. 9 . Clark Range, Fentress County, VII, 21, 1924, (T. H. Hubbell), 

 1 d". Grassy Cove, Cumberland County, 1700 to 2000 feet, VII, 8 to 12, 

 1922, (T. H. Hubbell), 4 cf, 3 9 . Clear Fork near Burrville, Morgan County, 

 VI, 12, 1924, (T. H. HubbeU), 1 d". 



The range of this species is now known to extend east to West 

 Point, New York; Plainfield, New Jersey; Collison Ridge and 

 Snickers Gap, Virginia, and Crestmont and Murphy, North 

 Carolina. In Ohio it is known only from the southeastern third 

 of the State, not extending its range beyond the limits of glaci- 

 ation, Guernsey County and Fallsburg being northern limits, the 

 latter and Fort Hill western limits. Southward similis probably 

 continues through the hills and mountains to the west of the 

 main Appalachians to its present known southwestern limit, 

 Cumberland County, Tennessee. It is therefore very evident 

 that the insect inhabits very extensive areas in the mountains of 

 Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky where it has not as 

 yet been secured. Those regions have not yet been collected in 

 nearly sufficiently; moreover the present species is not only alert 

 and active but also local and sylvan, while adults appear in the 

 late spring and early summer, largely if not wholly disappearing 

 in the fall when the majority of grasshoppers are at their peak of 

 seasonal abundance and most field work is done. 



Melanoplus longicornis (Saussure) (PL XXII, figs. 9 and 10) 



1861. Pez[otettix] longicornis Saussure, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., xiii, p. 159, 



[cf; [South] Carolina.] 

 1916. Melanoplus similis Rehn and Hebard (not of Morse, 1904), (in part). 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1916, p. 210. [<? only; Rabun Bald 



and Clayton, Georgia.] 



The name longicornis long remained unidentifiable, due to the 

 complete insufficiency of the original description. Examination 

 of the type at the Geneva Museum by the author in 1927 showed 

 it to represent a species of the Viridipes Group, nearest similis of 



