April, 1901] 
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nearly all have matured by the latter part of July. They occur 
most abundantly on the sand adjacent to the clumps of grass upon 
which they doubtless feed, though so far no individuals have been 
observed actually feeding on grass leaves, but one was observed 
eating a fragment of apple cast up in drift materials on the beach. 
When disturbed they invariably alight on the sand, upon which 
they become at once invisible. About the only way to capture them 
is to throw a net down on a spot where one has been seen to alight, 
and then it not infrequently happens that two or even three will be 
caught though their presence has not been suspected. 
The adult is whitish gray speckled with ferruginous fuscous and 
black, conspicuous ferruginous points occurring usually on the 
anterior margin of pronotum and on the lower borders of epimera of 
meso- and meta-thorax, humeri of elytra and discal carina of femur, 
these may be faint or obsolete, and on wings and legs may form 
slender lides; dark freckles occur on carinse of vertex and face, 
forming a series back of collar on pronotum, on posterior border of 
pronotum and on sides of elytra and hind femora; on elytra they 
are thicker at three places, one-fourth, one-half and two-thirds from 
base, constituting fairly distinct patches, and on femur are two 
indistinct bands corresponding with well marked black bands on the 
inner side. Anterior and middle femora and tibiae nearly white, 
milky, with gray annulations; hind tibiae gray at base, distal two- 
thirds yellow, in one form orange or reddish, spines yellow, tipped 
with black, anterior and middle tarsi ferruginous or reddish, hind 
tarsi yellow. The sternum is finely pilose. A variety is quite 
uniformly yellowish gray. 
The larvae are similarly speckled but differ in that the dorsum 
of abdomen is densely speckled, while in adults this part protected 
by the folded wings is not speckled. In all these points a perfect 
adaptation to the color and markings that blend with the sand grains 
is evident. 
In the latter part of the summer of 1899, many of these grass- 
hoppers died from an attack of parasitic fungus, and in such cases 
climbed up on stems of grass where their whitened bodies became 
very conspicuous. Eggs are doubtless laid in autumn probably in 
packed sand in grass clumps to hatch in following spring. 
NOTES ON THE BIRD LIFE OF CEDAR POINT. 
Robert F. Griggs. 
Ecologically Cedar Point is an exceedingly interesting region. 
It is a narrow peninsula on one side of which flourishes a xerophytic 
dune flora, and on the other a luxuriant hydrophytic marsh flora. 
The meeting of these two gives the flora a very peculiar aspect. 
