Il6 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Measurements. 



Body Antennas Tegmina Hind Femora 



Female 18-25 6.5-7 3*5 10-12 



Male 14-17.5 6.5-7 2-4 8.3-9 



This species is ordinarily rather common locally on some 

 of the mountains of the northern New England states at altitudes 

 of 2,000-3,500 feet. It has, however, been taken in Connecticut 

 at North Madison and at Woodbridge, the latter part of August, 

 by Professor W. S. Blatchley. At the former place he mentions 

 it as being numerous on high ledges along the Hamanasset 

 River. 



M. scudderi Uhler. Scudder's Short-winged Locust. Plate 

 IX, 7. 



Size rather small. Tegmina about as long as pronotum, 

 ovate-lanceolate in shape. Their inner edges just about touch- 

 ing in the male, slightly overlapping in the female. Wings less 

 than half the length of the tegmina. Color dull reddish or 

 wood-brown. The males and sometimes the females with an 

 indistinct dusky bar reaching from the eye back along the upper 

 half of pronotum to the metazona. Hind femora with two faint 

 •dark bars on their upper surface, the apex blackish. Hind tibiae 

 red, sometimes dull at base. Spines black. 



This species is rather common the latter part of the season 

 in open places in bushy pastures, on hillsides, or in open places 

 along the edge of woodland. Morse found it " quite plentiful 

 along the rocks and bushes on the talus slopes at the foot of 

 West Rock, New Haven." The only species that scudderi will 

 be mistaken for is niancus, which is apparently much more local 

 and ordinarily frequents higher elevations. It will probably be 

 often taken for a nymph of some other species of the genus. 

 The nymphs, however, differ from the adults in having the wings 

 and tegmina reversed, the wings appearing on the outside. 



