SUBFAMILY IV. CONOCEPIIALIXvE. 569 



be found in large colonies. Its notes are extremely faint and in 

 manner of deliver}' are the exact counterpart of an Orchelimum's 

 notes. The staccato lisps nearly always precede the phrase 

 tsceecccc('('('('('<'<'C. The entire song may be written thus: Tift-tijt- 

 tii>-tscc<'<'<'<'cccccece. The entire stridulatiou is so faint as to al- 

 most escape the hearing. The staccato lisps tip-tii>-tii> were so 

 feeble the writer could hear them only by the closest attention, 

 although the wings could be seen in motion at the time." 



MrNeill (1891, 24), writing of it about Moline, 111., says: "It 

 is abundant everywhere, in blue-grass meadows especially. Its 

 song is a faint echo of that of OrcheHniiiin vulgure, with the '.://>- 

 :il>' omitted. It is, I believe, the first of the green grasshoppers 

 to reach maturity and its faint little quaver is the first note of the 

 great chorus that sounds in all the meadows from mid-July until 

 the first of October." 



The OrcJieUiiniin gracilc Harris (1841, 131 ) is placed by R. & H. 

 as a synonym of C. fosciatus, although not so considered by Bruner 

 (1892a, 265) and not so figured by Harris, loc. <-it. 



262. CONOCEPHALUS GRACiLLiMUs (Morse), 1901, 236. Graceful Meadow 

 Grasshopper. 



Size and form of fasciatus. Pale brown; face and sides of abdomen 

 usually greenish; occiput and disk of pronotum with a conspicuous dark 

 brown median stripe; lateral lobes often also with a median dark stripe; 

 abdomen usually with three narrow dark stripes, one above and one each 

 side, the intervening spaces yellowish. Fastigium very narrow, feebly as- 

 cending, its sides very faintly divergent. Disk of pronotum subsellate, 

 male, not at all, female; lateral lobes slightly longer than deep, subtriangu- 

 lar in outline, their front and lower margins continuous with a scarcely 

 visible angle, lower hind angle narrowly rounded; humeral sinus distinct, 

 shallow; convex callosity broad. Tegmina fully developed, very narrow, 

 surpassing hind femora about 1.5 mm., exceeded by wings 2 3 mm., their 

 tips narrowly rounded. Hind femora very slender, unarmed. Cerci as in 

 Fig. 188, (), more elongate than in fasciaius. their apical third strongly de- 

 pressed. Ovipositor straight, about two-thirds the length of hind femora 

 the apical half tapering evenly to an acute point (Fig. 189, 7i.) Length of 

 body, $, 1214, 9, 1315; of antennae, 4058; of pronotum, $ , 3, 9, 

 3.2; of tegmina, $, 14.517, 9, 1718.5; of hind femojra, $, 10.5 12, 9, 

 12 13; of ovipositor, 8 mm. 



Biscayne Bay, Miami, Cape Sable, Key West, Ft. Myers, Passe 

 Grille and Dunedin, Fla. ; Dec. 12 March 14 (W.8.B.). The 

 types of Morse were from Capron and Biscayne Bay, and the 

 species is recorded from numerous localities in the southern half 

 and on the southern keys of Florida to which region it is appar- 

 ently confined. About Dunediu it is found in small numbers 

 throughout the winter, on both Hog Island and the mainland, 



