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exposure), 2 d", 4 9 . Cedar Falls, Hocking County, VII, 4, 1932, (Thomas 

 and Walker; one specimen only found in a mixed mesophytic forest), 1 cf . 

 [All from Ohio State Museum]. 



Tennessee: Allardt, Fentress County, 1600 feet, VI, 10 to 13, 1924 and 

 1925, (T. H. Hubbell), 4 d\ 2 9 , [Univ. of Michigan]. La Follette, Cumber- 

 land Mountain, Campbell County, VI, 10, 1934, (R. G. Goslin), 3 d\ [Ohio 

 State Mus.]. 



Georgia: Tuckoluge Creek, Rabun County, VI, 1909, (W. T. Davis), 2 9 , 

 [Davis and Hebard Clns.]. Clayton, VI, 1909, (W. T. Davis), 1 d\ 1 9, 

 [Hebard Cln.]. Jasper, 2600 feet, VII, 26, 1903, (A. P. Morse), 1 d* , [Mus. 

 Comp. Zool.]. 



Indiana: Vigo County, part VI, 8, 1893, (W. S. Blatchley), 6 cf, 2 9, 

 [Blatchley, Mus. Comp. Zool. and Hebard Clns.]. 



Melanoplus acrophilus acrophilus new species (PI. XXII, fig. 12; 



pi. XXIII, fig. 5; pl. XXVII, fig. 4) 



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

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1916, p. 212. [<?, 9 ; Black Moun- 

 tain, North Carolina.] 



This is an extremely interesting species as it approaches 

 deceptus closely in general appearance and has cerci approaching 

 those of that insect more nearly than those of any of the pre- 

 ceding forms, though they are decidedly less highly specialized, 

 but the penis is very distinct, of the general type found in the 

 preceding species and nearest that of hubbelli here described. 



Comparison with cherokee here described shows that, without 

 examination of the penis, these species are apparently indis- 

 tinguishable, although the specialization of that organ in cherokee 

 is remarkably distinctive and wholly unlike that of any other 

 species of the Viridipes Group. 



Type. — cf; Black Mountain, North Carolina. June, 1912. 

 (Wm. Beutenmuller) . [Hebard Collection, Type no. 1257]. 



Generally very similar to viridipes. Tegmina slightly longer 

 than pronotum. Tergite preceding supra-anal plate not (rarely 

 moderately) swollen at point where furcula (present in rare 

 specimens and then very minute) would be. Supra-anal plate 

 shorter than in viridipes, as in deceptus, no longer than broad, the 

 lateral margins very faintly convex, contour much as here de- 

 scribed for hubbelli. Cercus about two and one-half times 

 proximal width, curved decidedly inward, tapering in proximal 

 third (to two-fifths in paratypes) due to the declivity and slight 

 concavity there of the dorsal margin, shaft mesad over half 

 proximal width, distal half (to very slightly more in paratypes) 



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