186 FAMILY V. TETIIIGIDJE. THE GROUSE LOCUSTS. 



Florida and westward as far as Riverside, 111., Howe, Okla., and 

 Dallas, Texas." They state that the short form (depressa Morse) 

 is more common than the long one throughout its range, a condi- 

 tion not existing in Indiana, where the long one is much the more 

 common. T. dai'isi Morse (1008, 25) is a synonym. 



79a. TETTIGIDEA ARMATA SPICATA Morse, 1895, 108. Spined Grouse Locust. 



"A small, slender, southern species, intermediate in structure of ver- 

 tex between apiculata and armata, but more nearly allied to the latter. 

 The vertex is more projecting than in armata, the body narrower across 

 the shoulders, the lateral carinse of pronotum but slightly developed, the 

 median carina less distinct and the disc more finely rugulose. Length 

 of body, $, 11.6, $, 15. G 16.2; of pronotum, $, 10.5, $, 14.4; of hind fe- 

 mora, $ , 5.5, $, 7.6 mm.' (Morse). 



The above is the original description of T. spicata, which was 

 described from one male from Georgia and two females from Flor- 

 ida. Specimens taken by me in Knox and Posey counties, Ind., 

 and named spicata by Hancock, and others taken and so named 

 by Davis from Wilmington, N. Car., and Lake Okeechobee, Fla., 

 and by Hancock from Opelousas, La., are at hand, and a careful 

 comparison shows that the vertex proper is not more projecting 

 but the point of union of its median carina with the frontal costa 

 is slightly more prominent. As pointed out by R. & H., "the more 

 arcuate character of the dorsuui of pronotum in transverse section 

 between the humeral angles is one of the most apparent char- 

 acters" distinguishing xjiicdtii from typical <inn<i1<i. These dif- 

 ferences, however, are of less systematic value than those separat- 

 ing latcraJifi from its northern race parripciinisi, and I therefore 

 regard spirfitii as only a slender-bodied southern race or form of 

 (iniiiitii. In addition to the localities above given T. a. xpicata has 

 been taken by me at Ormond, Fla., and is recorded from numer- 

 ous localities between Jacksonville, Miami and Everglade in that 

 State, occurring for the most part in low moist spots in pine 

 woods and in bare spots along the edges of red mangrove swamps. 

 It is known also from Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. 



A study of the type of T. apicuJata Morse (1895, 16) described 

 from New Orleans, La., shows it to be very closely related to both 

 itniKitii and its race sph'-ata, and a large series would perhaps 

 show that x/>i<at<i is only an intermediate or connecting link be- 

 tween the other two, and that all three are in reality but one spe- 

 cies, which will have to bear the name dpiciiJata, since that form 

 was described in March, the others in September of the same year. 

 T might add that aside from the prolongation of the front margin 



