362 NORTH AMERICAN MELANOPLI (ORTHOPTERA) 



Generally dark brown, a broad postocular shining black band 

 present which is sharply defined and widens caudad on the 

 pronotal lateral lobes. Face, genae and ventral portions of 

 pronotal lateral lobes brownish buff, often clear buff. Limbs 

 brown. Caudal femora with dorsal surface often showing weakly 

 a suffused transverse median band and distal suffusion, the paler 

 portions in some series often tawn; ventral surface buff with a 

 yellowish tinge. Sides of abdomen with blackish patches de- 

 creasing and weakening in intensity caudad. Ventral surface 

 buff. 



This is the only short-winged woodland species of Melanoplus 

 known from New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. It is ex- 

 tremely local, widely distributed through the hilly woodlands of 

 northern New Jersey and in favorable spots in the Pine Barrens. 

 In eastern Pennsylvania it occurs much less frequently. At Pink 

 Hill the few specimens secured were found among scanty grasses 

 and plants growing on the poor soil of a serpentine outcrop near 

 the edge of a deciduous forest. Only at the type locality have we 

 found the species sufficiently abundant so that a series could be 

 taken without long and intensive search, even after a colony had 

 been located. 



The following previously unreported 81 males, 92 females and 

 9 immature individuals are before us. 



Connecticut: Woodbridge, VIII, 20 and 30, 1896, 2 9 . 



New Jersey: Stafford's Forge, VII, 21 and 29, 1915, (M. Hebard; in 

 undergrowth of pine barrens where small oaks were present; very local, long 

 intensive search necessary to obtain series), 5 d\ 19 9,2 juv. o" , 5 juv. 9. 



Maryland: Plummer's Island, X, 13, 1918, (M. Hebard; undergrowth of 

 deciduous forest), 1 9 , (unusually large). 



Virginia: Round Hill, VII, 14, 1916, (J. D. Hood), 1 o", 1 9. Rest, 

 VIII, 25, 1906, (M. Hebard; occasional in open deciduous forest), 2 d\ 1 9 . 

 Two miles east of Covington, 1000 to 1300 feet, VIII, 16, 1906, (M. Hebard; 

 in weeds and short grasses on hillside), 2 d* , 4 9. Flag Rock Pass, Warm 

 Springs Mountain, 2900 to 3000 feet, VII, 4 to VIII, 2, 1906, (M. Hebard; 

 locally in very large colonies in short herbage of open area on mountain), 

 63 d\ 56 9, type, allotype, paratypes, 2 juv. 9 (VII, 4). Hot Springs, 1800 

 feet, VII, 6, 1916, (M. Hebard; on shaly hillside in huckleberry and other 

 bushes), 2 cf. Deer Lick Mountain, Little Mountain Ridge, 2800 feet, VII, 

 10, 1916, (M. Hebard; very few in undergrowth of deciduous forest), 1 c? , 4 9 . 

 Dunn's Gap, VIII, 20, 1916, (M. Hebard; in low dry forest undergrowth), 1 9 . 



South Carolina: Pickens, VI, 24, 1932, (F. Sherman), 1 <?, 1 9 . Rocky 

 Bottom, VI, 26, 1934, (F. Sherman), 1 9. 



Georgia: Mountain City, 9 VI, 14 to 17, 1924, (H. Fox), 4 d\ 1 9. 



9 The specimen from Wilson Gap near this locality, recorded as devius by 

 Rehn and Hebard in 1916, actually represents delaware. 



