'S94-1 229 [Morse. 
speciinuns from New York :xnd some from Incliaiia, and, as a 
matter of course, the ty[)es in Scudder's collection. 
In connection with the description of this species by Scudder I 
must take exception to one of the statements made in comparing 
it with the species here designated as scudderi ^ y\z. : — in this 
species "the front half of the median crest of pronotum is less 
pinched posteriorly." This may have been a slip, for the oppo- 
site is true — the statement applying to scudderi when compared 
with bolli (see fig.). 
120 c? , 90 9 . The following are measurements of a number 
of New England specimens. Antennae : ^ , 10-13 mm. ; 9,11- 
13 mm. Hind femora: (^.12.5-13.5; 9,12.5-17. Tegmina: 
S , 20.5-25 ; 9 , 23-28. Body : J , 20.5-22 ; 9 , 27.5-33. Total 
length : ^ , 26-30.5 ; 9 , 29-38. 
As will be seen on comparing these measurements with those 
of scudderi, it is much more variable in size. 
The New England sjiecimens bear dates ranging from July 15 
to Sept. 27. The species is to be looked for from the first week 
in July until snow falls. 
I have taken it in Maine at Fryeburg, Norway, and on Speckled 
Mt., Stoneham ; in Massachusetts at Dedham, Medfield, Province- 
town, Sherborn, Walthara, and Wellesley ; in Rhode Island at 
Kingston and Wickford ; in Connecticut at Montville, New 
Haven, Stamford, and Thompson. I have also received it from 
Easthampton and So. Hadley, Mass. (S. W. Denton), and 
Forest Hills and Jamaica Plain near Boston (in Henshaw's col- 
lection ) . 
This species I have found more widely spread and less plentiful 
in numbers locally than scudderi. It has a special fondness for 
bushy pastures and the edges of woodlands on sandy soil, but 
may be found on almost any ground of a barren character, even 
at a considerable elevation. It is plentiful in one locality at 
Provincetown, Mass., and thei-e takes on a bright reddish brown 
hue, the color of fallen huckleberry leaves. 
Spharagemon saxatile sp. nov. 
Oedipoda aequalis Uhl. (Say) in part. Sculder, Bost. journ. 
nat. hist., v. 7, p. 470. 
Spharagemon bolli Scudder, 2 (^ , 1 9 , in Scudder's collection. 
At one time, influenced by Harris's description, I regarded this 
species as aequalis, and sent specimens labeled Dissosteira aequalis 
