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Melanoplus punctulatus. The genus Melanopsus contains 
many species, the majority of which are not especially strik- 
ing in appearance or habits, but this species is an exception 
in that, while all the other species habitually live on the 
ground or on low-growing grass or herbage, this one is con- 
sidered to be strictly arboreal, occurring on trees, stumps, 
shrubbery, etc. Our one specimen of this species was taken 
in Transylvania County by Mr. Woglurn, and is mottled in 
appearance, which renders its color protective when on 
lichen-covered bark. It is likely that the species does not 
occur east of the mountains in this State. 
Dissoteiria Carolina. This is one of our most common 
grasshoppers, and in nature (if not in the cabinet) is surely 
familiar to most observant country people in this State. 
Among those who have any common name for it, it is known 
as the Carolina Locust. It occurs throughout the State along 
roadsides and in. cultivated fields. The remarkable thiug 
about this species is the variability of its protective colors. 
In sections where the soil is grayish in color there the insect 
is grayish, while only a mile away may be found red clay soil 
and grasshoppers of a decidedly reddish tinge. Not that the 
resemblance is perfect, but the difference in color of speci- 
mens taken on differently colored soils is quite noticeable. 
On one occasion in Raleigh I took a specimen on a railway 
embankment and the greater portion of the body was black- 
ish to correspond to the soot and cinders among which it was 
found, No similarly colored specimen has since been taken 
anywhere, and others were not seen at that time. 
Gryllotalpa borealis. This is commonly known as the 
“Mole-cricket”, so called from its habit of burrowing in the 
ground like a mole, and from the further fact that it has 
developed along very similar lines, the front limbs being 
much enlarged like the front paws of the mole, and like them 
are used for digging. 
Myrmecophila pergandei. This small and wingless cricket 
