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in consequence of this it has received an unusual number of 
names, having been called, in addition to those cited, Melanoplus 
curtus in Colorado and Melanoplus haconi in Arkansas. The 
long-winged form was described from Michigan and was not 
known from New England until I took it at a high elevation on 
Mt. Katahdin in the summer of 1913. It thus seems to be 
associated with a cool climate. 
While widely distributed, this species is common only locally 
and is most often met with in dry, sterile, uncultivated land, 
frequently where it is elevated and rocky, among thickets of 
huckleberry bushes and similar under-shrubs, on mountain tops 
and in open pitch-pine woods growing in sandy soil, or about 
the margins of bogs. 
It is a sluggish insect and persistence in search is needed to 
startle the lurking inmates of a thicket into acti\dty and make 
them reveal themselves; but when aroused the powerful hind 
legs enable it to take long leaps in evading pursuit. 
Unobtrusive, retiring, Hving only in the wilder, untilled parts 
of a wide ext.ent of the country, this Locust in its habits and 
relation to the wilderness might appropriately receive a name 
associated with the aboriginal inhabitants. 
It matures in June, sometimes before the middle of the month, 
and may still be seen in September and perhaps in October, 
though it is probably most abundant in July. Adults are 
recorded from June 13 to September 5. As may be inferred from 
previous statements regarding its distribution, it inhabits all of 
the New England States. I have taken it in various quarters 
of Maine from sea-level to 4700 feet altitude, on the Province- 
town sands, the moors of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, and 
in many other parts of our district. 
Red-legged Locust. 
Melanoplus femur-rubrum (DeGeer). 
Fig. 90; Plate 22, fig. 8-12. 
Acrydium femur-rubrum DeGeer, M^m. Hist, des Ins., vol. 3, p. 498, pi. 42, 
fig. 5 (1773).— Harris, Treatise, 3d ed., p. 173 (1862). 
Caloptenijis femur-rubrum Smith, Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, 
p. 150 (1868); Rept. Ct. Bd. Agric. for 1872, p. 362 (1873). 
Melanoplus femur-rubrum Fernald, Orth. N. E., p. 33 (1888). — Scuddeb, 
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 20, p. 278 (1897).— Morse, Psyche, vol. 8, p. 
