352 FAMILY VI. Af'RIDIDJE. THE LOCUSTS. 



but still within the sand covered area. It was visually found 

 clinging to the stems of the tall rushes and grasses common in 

 such locations, and when disturbed the males used the wings in a 

 noiseless flight, while the females depended upon their leaping 

 powers to escape. When closely followed, they would attempt to 

 hide by burrowing in the fallen grass. A single male was after- 

 ward taken from low ground along a railway southeast of Ham- 

 mond, and on August 20th it was found in numbers in the tall 

 grasses along a lobe of Bass Lake, Starke County. 



Some of the first specimens taken were sent to Scudder who, 

 basing his opinion largely on the form of the furcula, stated that 

 they represented an undescribed species allied to atlantica, but of 

 smaller size and with longer cerci. Not having specimens of 

 atlantica at hand for comparison, I described them (1808, 59) as 

 Paroxya scuchleri. R. & H. (1916, 249) have shown that the Indi- 

 ana specimens represent only a smaller incipient northern race 

 of atlantica. With a large series of Florida atlantica for com- 

 parison, I agree with their opinion, though a number of characters 

 other than the shape of furcula separate the northern and southern 

 forms ; the hind margin of metazona being less produced and more 

 broadly augulate and the valves of ovipositor having longer, more 

 slender points in the Indiana than in Florida specimens. 



In Florida I have found P. atlantica, to be a common locust 

 between Nov.l and April 15, it having been collected by me at all 

 stations except Cape Sable and Key West. It occurs for the most 

 part among grasses and sedges along the borders of inland lakes, 

 ponds and streams and the bays and lagoons of the coast. On 

 Hog Island, opposite Dunedin, several females have been taken 

 having the face, disk and lower sides of pronotum and upper and 

 lower faces of hind femora a bright purplish-red. Elsewhere in 

 Florida it has been recorded from many places by other collect- 

 ors, and doubtless occurs in numbers in both adult and nymph 

 stages in all parts of the State throughout the year. 



The known range of P. atlantica- is mainly confined to the 

 Atlantic coastwise states, extending from -Jamesburg and Lake- 

 hurst, N. J., south and west at least as far as the southern ex- 

 tremity of Florida, Mobile, Ala., and Biloxi and Gulfport, Miss. 

 Inland it is known only from Northern Indiana and Illinois. 

 Morse (1907, 53) says it is "common in the piney woods of the 

 Gulf Strip of the Coastal Plain, especially in grassy places among 

 the inkberry shrubbery, Jlc.r c/Jabra L., and also in swampy spots 

 and sometimes in the salt marshes." In New Jersey Fox (1914) 

 says it is "a characteristic species of the sphagnum bogs, fre- 



