318 FAMILY VI. ACRIDID/E. THE LOCUSTS. 



also in New Mexico, eastern Colorado, Nebraska and Iowa. R. & 

 H. (1916, 200) state that in the southeastern states it is chiefly 

 confined to the sands and gravels of the coastal plains and penin- 

 sular Florida. Fox (1917) says that in Virginia it "appears to 

 occur most regularly in the reedy areas of tidal marshes, but it is 

 also found in the dense herbage clothing the adjoining slopes of 

 the dry land. 1 ' Farther back from the coast, at Augusta and Al- 

 bany, Ga., E. & H. found it on high weeds in or near cotton fields 

 and also in long-leaf pine woods. They state that from Delaware 

 to Florida it was "common only occasionally, being generally but 

 few in numbers and very frequently associated with alutacca." 



137. SCIIISTOCEKCA DAMNIFICA (Saussure), 1SG1, 1G4. Mischievous Locust. 

 Female robust, medium in size; male smaller, subcompressed, much 

 more slender. Color a nearly uniform dark rust red or russet-brown; oc- 

 ciput and carina of pronotum with a narrow reddish-brown or brownish- 

 yellow line. Tegmina of female rarely with small, dim dusky spots, the 

 anal field usually pale brown. Outer face of hind femora sometimes whit- 

 ish, with narrow dark oblique lines arranged herring-bone fashion. Head 

 small, the disk of vertex hexagonal; frontal costa wide, feebly sulcate, 

 coarsely punctate, the sides parallel below the ocellus, a little expanded 

 and flat just above, then narrowed and convex at point of union with ver- 

 tex. Disk of pronotum with the surface very rough with small pits and 

 impressions, that of prozona strongly sloping, the median carina relatively 

 high, nearly straight; hind margin right angled, male, very obtuse-angled 



or bluntly rounded, female. Teg- 

 mina of male slightly exceeding the 

 abdomen; those of female reaching 

 base of ovipositor and tip of hind 

 femora, the latter shorter than ab- 

 domen. Length of body. , 25- 

 27, 9, 37 42; of antennae, $, 

 10, 9, 11; of pronotum, $, 6.57, 

 Fig. 115. Male. X i-S- (After R. & H.) ?> 3.59.5; of tegmina, $, 2025. 



$, 2G 29; of hind femora, $, 14 1G, 9, 1921 mm. (Fig. 115.) 



This, our smallest eastern species of ScMstoccrca , has been 

 taken in Indiana only in Crawford and Harrison counties. A 

 single female was secured May 10, 1899. This was probably a 

 migrant, as that is a very early date for eggs hatched in spring to 

 mature, and it is not known that the species winters so far north 

 in either the adult or nymph stage. Other specimens were taken 

 in June and July, 1902, and September, 1918. It frequents old 

 fields and roadsides on the crests of the higher hills near Wyan- 

 dotte, and is probably to be found in similar localities throughout 

 the southern third of the State. When flushed the males fly long 

 distances and usually alight on the limbs of trees or fence posts, 



