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them. Frontal costa narrow, feebly constricted below the ocellus, deeply 

 sulcate throughout, male, wider, more shallowly sulcate only below the 

 antenna*, female. Prozona with median carina more distinct than on 

 metazona, its surface sparsely and coarsely punctate, metazona rather 

 finely and densely punctate. Tegmina usually overlapping except near 

 base, their tips rounded and discoidal and dorsal areas distinctly defined 

 by the rather coarse ulnar veins. Supra-anal plate of male triangular, its 

 lateral halves and apical third irregularly concave, the basal third with a 

 median triangular groove lying between two low converging ridges. Fur- 

 cula consisting of a pair of short sub-rounded lobes lying within the basal 

 groove of supra-anal plate. Cerci shorter than supra-anal plate, conical, 

 strongly tapering from the broad basal to apical third, their tips blunt. 

 Length of body, $, 15.517, 9, 2024; of antenna?, $, 7.38.5, 9, 6.3 

 7.2; of pronotum, $ , 5, $. 5.5 6; of tegmina, $, 7.610, 9, 9.711.7; of 

 hind femora, $, 9.510.5, 9, 11.832.7 mm. 



Wellesley, Mass., July 10 Aug. 8 (Morse). This handsome 

 little locust is not known from either Indiana or Florida, hut oc- 

 curs in the coastwise states from Massachusetts southwest to Ala- 

 hama. In New England it has so far heen recorded only from 

 Wellesley. Dover and Walpole, Mass. Of its occurrence there 

 Morse (1808. 272) says: "This is one of our rarer locusts, and 

 with its delicately contrasted tints of green and purple, is one of 

 our daintiest and most attractively colored species. It is usually 

 captured by sweeping vigorously the short tufted growth of beard- 

 grass, Andropogon scoparins Michx., which, with other wild 

 grasses and running blackberry vines, sparsely clothe the thin 

 soil of the gravel plain formations on which it is found." 



In New Jersey it was first recorded as inhabiting cranberry 

 bogs, but Rehn (lOOOa) considers its occurrence in these bogs as 

 accidental, stating that individuals taken near Stafford's Forge, 

 Aug. 12 Sept. 5, were found "only in a small area of huckleberry 

 and sweet fern barrens on the edge of pine forests." Fox (1014, 

 50!)) mentions a number of stations where it has been taken in 

 New .Jersey, stating that it is almost entirely restricted to the 

 Pine Barrens where it frequents low scrub and undergrowth. In 

 Virginia, Georgia and Alabama it occurs very sparingly in moun- 

 tainous or hilly regions. R. & TT. ( 10ir>, 210) state that their spec- 

 imens "were taken in bunch grass Ci/]H'rns, particularly where this 

 was plentiful on open slopes, and in the luxuriant mountain un- 

 dergrowth of grasses, vines and oak sprouts, under a low forest 

 predominant in black-jack oak/ 1 



14F). HESPEROTETTIX PRATENSIS Scudder, 1897, 64. Meadow Purple-striped 



Locust. 



Slightly larger, the males more slender and more compressed, than in 

 Itrcvipennis. Color much as there, the face often purplish-brown or if 



