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around which they dodge, and from which they may often be 

 taken with the hand. The females are more clumsy and usually 

 try to escape by leaping or diving into a nearby clump of grass or 

 shrubs. 



The range of 8. damnified is southern, and is given by Scud- 

 der (1899c, 475) as "United States east of the Great Plains, from 

 Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois and Arkansas to the Gulf." He 

 included, however, the southern form calidior in the range as 

 quoted. In Ohio it has been taken at Sugar Grove and Cincinnati. 

 Some of Scudder's specimens were from different localities in 

 Texas. Saussure's type was from Tennessee, and Fox has recently 

 taken it near Clarksville, that State. Allard (1916) states that 

 "it is especially common in the cotton fields of northern Georgia, 

 where it prefers to rest upon the bare earth rather than upon 

 vegetation, the almost uniformly reddish-brown color making it 

 quite indistinguishable from the red-laud soils of that region." 

 According to Caudell 50 the nymphs of damnified found about 

 Washington, D. C., are dimorphic, being either a bright green or 

 brown. He has bred both forms to maturity and found the green 

 color to persist to the last stage nymphs, but to disappear in the 

 final moult. 



The Cyrtacanthacris unilineata F. Walker (1870, 611) and the 

 undescribed Acrydium appendiculdtum Uhl. (Ms.) of Scudder 

 (1877a, 86) are stated by Scudder to be synonyms of damnified, 

 but the latter name was based on specimens from Florida, and 

 therefore is to be referred to the race calidior. 



137. SCHISTOCERCA DAMNIFIC^ CALioiOK Rehn & Hebard, 1912, 258. 



More slender and compressed than typical damnified. General color 

 much as there, but the pronotum, discoidal area of tegmina and outer face 

 of hind femora usually, female, rarely, male, thickly sprinkled with small 

 rounded fuscous dots. Antennae slightly longer and more filiform than in 

 damnifica. Hind margin of metazona less obtusely angulate than in the 

 typical form. Tegmina longer and more slender, distinctly surpassing the 

 tips of hind femora in both sexes. Structural characters otherwise 

 scarcely different. Length of body, $, 25 29, $, 39 46; of antennae, $, 

 11, $, 12.5; of pronotum, $, 6.87.2, $, 910; of tegmina, $, 2426. 

 9, 3334; of hind femora, $, 1721, 5, 2123 mm. (Fig. 116.) 



This is one of the most common locusts in Florida during the 

 winter months, the specimens at hand having been taken by me 

 from November to April at all collecting stations except Key 

 West, and at Mobile, Ala., by Loding. It has been recorded from 

 all parts of the mainland of the State by other collectors, but 



"Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., 1916, 216. 



