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FAMILY VI. ACRIDIDvE. THE LOCUSTS. 



pressed and concave, the tip broadly rounded. Fur- 

 cula consisting of a pair of short, rather broad and 

 flat triangular teeth lying on the sides of the basal 

 median ridges. Subgenital plate broader than long, 

 the apex at middle feebly elevated. Length of body, 

 $, 19 25, 9, 2329; of antennae, , 11 14, 9, 

 9.510.5; of pronotum, $, 55.7, 9, 66.5; of teg- 

 mina, $, 6.29, 9, 89; of hind femora, $, 11.5 

 14, 9, 1416 mm. (Fig. 140.) 



Hudson, Mich.; Cloverdale, Ohio; various 

 points in Indiana, June-November (W. 8. B.). 

 This clumsy bodied insect, the M. WatcJileyi 

 of my former work, is among the least common 

 of our Indiana Melanopli, having been taken 

 only in Crawford, Knox, Monroe, Vigo, Put- 

 nam and Marion counties. Seldom more than 

 a dozen or two are seen each season. It fre- 

 quents, for the most part, upland woods and 

 thickets, though it is sometimes found along 

 the borders of marshes and swamps, but never 

 close to the water. It is more arboreal than 

 many of our locusts, having been taken in 

 autumn on prickly ash and buttonbush shrubs, 

 several feet above the ground, also from the 

 boles of hackberry and oak trees, where it was probably sunning. 

 In central Indiana it begins to reach maturity by June 14th, and 

 ragged, forlorn looking specimens have been seen as late as 

 November 3rd. 



M. walshii has had a varied and somewhat strange career in 

 Orthopterological nomenclature. It was first described by Bru- 

 ner (1876, 124) under the name of Pczotettix occidentalis. This 

 specific name, having been preoccupied by Thomas (1872, 453), 

 was changed by Scudder (1807, 322) to blatchlet/i. He, however, 

 had described the insect as M. -irnlsliii on page 235, and as M. 

 aniplectcns on page 260 of the same work. M. icalsliii, therefore, 

 stands, occidentalis Bruuer, nee Thos., and aiiiplectcns and Irtatcli- 

 leyi Scudder being synonyms. 



The known range of iralsliii, based largely on the records of 

 the above synonyms, is a wide one, extending from Ohio and Mich- 

 igan, southeast to Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia, and 

 west and north to Nebraska and Minnesota. Morse (1904, 50) 

 notes it as an inhabitant of the "Transition zone of the Central 

 and Appalachian regions, being a characteristic and dominant 

 species among the mountains of western North Carolina. There 



(After Lugger.) 



