356 FAMILY VI. A('UIIII).i:. THE LOCUSTS. 



10. Outside of Indiana P. hoosicri has been recorded only from 

 near Oberlin, Ohio, where Dr. Lynds Jones found it a in abundance 

 in the rank vegetation which sprang up in a dry swamp surround- 

 ed by woods," and from Milneburg, La., where Morse (1907, 54) 

 captured a male at the edge of a swam]"), which measured 26 mm. 

 in length of body, its antennae being IT and tegmina 12 mm. in 

 length. 



On one occasion I found a female of this species and also one 

 of Clilcealtis conspci'sa Harr., a few inches apart on the stump 

 of a downy poplar, Populiis Jicteroplii/lla L., each with the ab- 

 domen buried to the full length in the soft wood, but no eggs could 

 be discovered. Nothing has been recorded concerning the habits 

 of oviposition of the members of the genus Paro.n/(t, and it would 

 be surprising if they, like the CMcealtis mentioned, should seek 

 wood rather than earth as the receptive matrix for the eggs. 



P. Jwosieri is closely related to P. clavuligcr (Serv.), so close 

 indeed, that after describing it I recorded it (1894, 244) as a short- 

 winged form of P. citlantica, specimens of clavitlif/cr having been 

 sent me under the name of atlantica by Morse and Scudder. The 

 differences in the abdominal appendages of male as set forth in 

 key and description appear, however, to be constant, and it is 

 therefore here retained as a northern or inland race of clariiliger. 



X. PHCETALIOTES Scudder, 1897a, 202. (Gr., "a roamer.") 



Elongate, rather slender species, having the body feebly com- 

 pressed ; head large, prominent, nearly half as long again as pro- 

 zona; vertex prominent, the narrowest portion one and one-half 

 times as wide as frontal costa ; fastigium declivent and with a 

 broad median furrow or depression; frontal costa with lower half 

 much wider than upper, not sulcate but concave around the ocel- 

 lus ; antennae about three-fourths the length of hind femora; pro- 

 notum enlarged a little in front to receive the head ; disk with 

 sides feebly sloping, hind margin broadly obtuse-angled; median 

 carina rather sharp, of equal height throughout; lateral lobes 

 with lower margin obtuse-angled near middle; tegmina either 

 abbreviate and a little longer than pronotum, broadly lanceolate, 

 with inner margins sometimes attingent about the middle, but 

 often well separated, or fully developed and surpassing the hind 

 femora in both sexes; hind femora slender, surpassing the tip of 

 abdomen, male, a little shorter, female. 



This genus is closely related to Melanoplus, but is distin- 

 guished by its large head, feebly flaring prozona and substyliform 

 cerci. One species, widely distributed west of the Mississippi and 

 occasionally found east of that stream, is known. 



