MORGAN HEBARD 367 



1926, (Rehn and Hebard; very scarce under Western Yellow Pines and at 

 foot of rock slides where neither Black Sage or Antelope Brush was present), 

 1 d\ 1 9. Markagunt Plateau, 8300 feet, VIII, 30, 1926, (M. Hebard; in 

 Western Yellow Pine forest), 1 cf. Duck Creek, Markagunt Plateau, 9000 

 feet, VIII, 30, 1926, (Rehn and Hebard; one on flat of short grass with no 

 other Orthoptera, others on edge of conifer forest), 3 cf, 5 9,1 juv. 9- 

 Five miles east of Midway, Markagunt Plateau, 9700 feet, VIII, 31, 1926, 

 (Rehn and Hebard; Hudsonian Zone, moderately common in high dry grass 

 under clumps of thickly growing pines), 9 d\ 14 9 . Cedar Breaks, Marka- 

 gunt Plateau, 10400 feet, VIII, 31, 1926, (Rehn and Hebard; not common 

 in a single glade of Hudsonian Zone herbage, the majority in one small area 

 of a species of dandelion), 7 cf, 4 9 . 



Melanoplus lepidus Scudder 



1897. Melanoplus rileyanus Scudder (in part), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xx, 



p. 152. [ 9 ; Yuba County and mountains near Lake Tahoe, California.] 

 1897. Melanoplus lepidus Scudder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xx, p. 321, pi. 21, 



fig. 9. [cf, 9; Humboldt River, Nevada; mountains near Lake Tahoe 



and Truckee (type locality), California.] 



Four paratypes are in the author's collection. The following 

 material shows the range of the species to extend far northward. 



Oregon: Hood River, 200 to 500 feet, VIII, 18, 1910, (Rehn and Hebard), 



1 9 ; IX, 21, 1897, (A. P. Morse), 5^,3 9, [Mus. Comp. Zool. and Hebard 

 Clns.]. ^v* d J*c Ct> ' 



California: Sugar Hill, Goose Lake, 5300 feet, VIII, 24, 1922, (Rehn 

 and Hebard; locally in moderate numbers in chaparral and mats of ground 

 chinquapin under Western Yellow Pines, Pinus ponderosa), 12 cf, 13 9- 

 Tahoe, 6300 to 7000 feet, VIII, 30, 1910, (Rehn and Hebard; scarce in conifer 

 forest with chaparral and areas of a mullen-like plant, Rhamnus tomentella), 



2 <? , 4 9; 7500 feet, VIII, 8, 1930, (E. R. Tinkham), 1 cf. Blue Canyon, 

 Placer County, 4700 to 5000 feet, VIII, 29, 1910, (Rehn and Hebard; few on 

 open hillsides covered with clumps of high green bushes), 3 d\ 4 9,1 juv. 9 . 

 Colfax, 2450 to 2800 feet, VIII, 27, 1910, (Rehn and Hebard; common on 

 hillsides with scattered trees and much poison oak and chaparral, particularly 

 in Chamaebatia foliosa), 24 d\ 20 9,1 juv. 9. 



In color individuals range from very dark with sharply defined 

 color pattern to pale buffy brown with color pattern almost 

 obliterated. 



Melanoplus ablutus Scudder 



1899. Melanoplus ablutus Scudder, Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci., vm, 



p. 185, pi. 8, fig. 3. [c? , 9 ; Wawona, California.] 

 1909. Melanoplus ablutus Rehn and Hebard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 



1909, p. 471. [cf; El Portal, California, at 2050 feet.] 



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