1.~>S FAMILY V. TETRIGIDJE. THE GItorSE I.CKTSTS. 



of the crested grouse locust is known from southern Xe\v Jersey 

 and eastern Pennsylvania west to Michigan and Illinois and south 

 to Georgia. It is the only form of To/j/o/r///./- known from Indi- 

 ana where it probably occurs throughout the State. In the south- 

 ern counties it makes its home on semi-barren rocky ridges and 

 the sides of dry sunny banks in pastures where the grass is scant 

 or has been cropped short, and where the species of "everlasting" 

 (Antenna rid and AnaitJiaJis), delight to grow. In such places it 

 may be taken by the score in late autumn or early spring. At 

 Dune Park, Porter Co., it lives, says Hancock (1902, 50) "on dry 

 sandy soil, lightly covered with fragments of twigs, leaves, and 

 various fine debris accumulated from past seasons. Among the 

 sand dunes it frequently seeks retreat in the dumps of prickly 

 pear cactus on mossy covered ground slightly sheltered by trees. 

 It is a curious little species, and though sometimes quite common 

 locally, it requires the exercise of tact on hands and knees to 

 capture the sprightly little insects. In the cool October mornings 

 they do not appear to jump far, but as the sunlight warms the 

 ground they become more active. Some are then in the last pupal 

 stage, but the majority are adult." , 



But three specimens of the long form, atavuq Blatchley (1903, 

 219) have been taken among the hundreds of short-winged ones 

 collected in Indiana, a male in Vigo county and a female in each 

 of Lake and Perry counties. On account of the greater length 

 of the pronotnm, its median crest does not appear so prominent 

 nor so strongly arched in the long form as in the more com- 

 mon one. 



Morse, in his notes following the original description of .V. 

 coiii/H'cxKHS, doubted its validity, and R. & H. and Hancock have 

 showns that it merges and intergrades with cristntiis so that at 

 most it must be considered as only a geographic race. 



G4b. NOMOTETTIX CRISTATUS FLORiDAxrs Hancock, 1902, G4. Florida 



Crested Grouse Locust. 



As represented in southern Florida, this race differs from typical 

 rrifftatiis mainly in its distinctly more prominent eyes and much more ru- 

 gose surface of pronotum. The vertex, viewed from the si.le, is slightlv 

 more acute-angulate, the median carina of pronotum a little less elevated 

 and the tegmina notably smaller. Length of body, $, (i.x 7.2, 9, 7.8 

 8.2; of pronotum, $, G.5 6.8, 9, 7.57.8; of hind femora, $, 4.14.4. 9, 

 4.75.2 mm. 



Port Orange, Fla., June 5 (Hancock's type) ; Sara sol a. San- 

 ford. Lakeland, LaBelle and Dunedin, Fla., Nov. 9 April 5 



