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Fredericksburg, September 5; Bells Cross Roads, October 26 (1 

 male); Republican Grove, November 2; Charlottesville, April 19 to 

 June 15, Jmie 16 to Augaist 12 (adults, nymphs)/ September 10 to 

 October 31, 1914, October 31, 1915. 



Dale Enterprise, Jmie 11 (1 lem^ale). 



Common in Coastal Plain locaHties and quite frequent, at least 

 locally, in the Piedmont. Widely distributed in open country, but 

 shows a marked preference for areas covered with tall herbage (wheat 

 fields, timothy pastures, taller clumps of Andropogon, roadside 

 thickets, etc.). 



SCHISTOCERCA DAMNIFICA (Sauss). 



Portsmouth, October 3; Churchland, September 16, November 4, 

 1914, April 17, 1915; Deanes, September 26; Gilmerton, October 1, 

 November 6; Virginia Beach, September 20; Frankhn, September 18, 

 November 5; Tappahannock, April 24 to July 18, September 9 

 (adults, nymphs), September 19 to October 24; Mount Landing, 

 April 28; Lloyds, April 28; Sharps, May 18; Ottoman, September 27; 

 Irvington, September 26. 



Charlottesville, April 2 to June 20, September 10-October 10, 1914; 

 April 4-8, October 31, 1915. 



Frequent in Coastal Plain and Piedmont region, occurring chiefly 

 in Andropogon and coarse herbage generally, usually in or near 

 wooded areas. 



SCmSTOCERCA ALUTACEA (Harris) (Typical race). 2 



Portsmouth, October 3; Deanes, September 26; Naylors, Sep- 

 tember 17. 



Only a few examples taken, apparently quite scarce. Mostly found 

 in bushy thickets {Baccharis halimifolia, Ira oraria) and tall grasses in 

 low grounds bordering tidal marshes; at Deanes' taken in bracken 

 (Pteridium aquilinum) scrub in low woods. 



SCHISTOCERCA ALUTACEA (rubiginosa phase). 



Churchland, September 23 (1 female); Tappahannock, July 25 

 (1 male), August 21 (1 female). 



Charlottesville, July 11 (1 male), July 14 (2 males) August 11 

 (1 male). Hot Springs, September 5 (1 male). 



Apparently quite scarce and local. Most examples were taken in 

 areas of bunch grass (Andropogon) or in associated thickets. At Hot 



1 Nymphs taken July 3 were reared to adults in confinement. 



2 This is the phase with the continuous, median dorsal stripe. The unstriped, russet-brown form, 

 known as rubiginosa, is regarded as only a color phase of alutacea by Rehn. On the beaches is a relatively 

 large form closely resembling rubiginosa. In my article on New Jersey Ortheptera, p. 508, following a 

 verbal suggestion by Rehn, I mentioned that the latter might be a unicolorous phase of S. obscura, but since 

 the publication of that article Rehn has mformed me that such is not the case. I shall accordingly 

 refer to this form as a maritime race of alutacea. 



