No. 16.] 



ORTHOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT. 



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radial area expanded, and with about three of the radial veins 

 thickened. The disk yellow ; a rather narrow, dark median band 

 widening posteriorly, with a triangular sub-frontal shoot reach- 

 ing about two-thirds the distance to the base of the wing. Hind 

 femora small, not surpassing the end of the abdomen in either 

 sex. 



C. verruculatus Kirby. Plate VIII, 11. 



Usually the darkest colored of our locusts. Ash-gray thickly 

 mottled with brownish black; darkest on head and pronotum. 

 Antennae slender, annulated with white. Tegmina with the dark 

 mottlings more or less arranged in cross bands, the venules on 

 the lighter portions often white. Hind femora grayish with four 

 dark cross bars, hind tibiae grayish white with the apex dusky 

 and a dusky band on the basal third. 



FIG. 34. Circotettix verruculatus, male. Wing. 

 Measurements. 



This handsome locust is found in the northern portion of the 

 state on high elevations along bare ledges, where it delights to 

 sun itself, its color harmonizing with the gray of the rocks and 

 lichens. It is a shy insect and a ready flier. It may be readily 

 recognized by its " song," which is louder than that of any other 

 of our locusts, and is a series of sharp clicks or snaps instead of 

 a continuous rattle. Canaan (A. P. M.) ; Colebrook, 21 July 

 (H. L. V.). 



