360 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
(p. 108) (1888).— Walden, Bull. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 139 
(1911). — Rehn and Hebard, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 41, p. 38 (1915). 
All of these references except the first and the last may refer to 0. gladiator 
Bruner. 
Orchelimum glaherrimum Walden, Bull. Geol. Nat. Hist. Siu-v. Ct., no. 16, 
p. 139 (1911).— Fern ALD, Orth. N. E., p. 25 (109) (1888). 
Orchelimum agile Scudder, Psyche, vol. 9, p. 103 (1900). 
This is a medium-sized species, with stout body and relatively- 
broad tegmina which usually extend 2 to 3 mm. beyond the hind 
femora, often only equalling 
them, rarely falling short, or 
considerably elongated and 
surpassing them by 5 or 6 mm. 
The wings usually pass the 
tegmina in the female, equal 
them in the male. 
Color: light grass-green, 
sometimes with a pinkish 
over-tint, often turning brown in drying; a mid-dorsal brown 
stripe on top of head, widened and margined with whitish on 
pronotum, and represented by brownish spots enclosing the 
speculum of the male. 
Measurem,ents. 
Fig. 54. — Common Meadow-grasshopper, Orche- 
limum vulgare. Male. (After Lugger.) 
Total Body 
Male 25.5-31 16-20 
Female 27.5-33 16-21.5 
Tegmina Ovipositor Pronotum H. fem. Ant. 
16-23 3.5^ 12.5-16 45-60 
17-23 7.5 3.&-4 14 -16 40-50 
Until recently this species has been confused with 0. gladiator 
and on this account records of its distribution and notes on its 
habits must be regarded as subject to correction. 
It is found most abundantly in tall grasses and dense weedy 
jungles on moist ground, 
in meadows and swamps, 
along brooks and larger 
streams, the prime re- 
quisites of its existence 
seeming to be moisture 
and a dense growth of 
. vegetation. In New Eng- 
FlQ. 55. — Common Meadow-grasshopper, Orcheli- j ij. ' +U 
mum vulgare. Female. (After Lugger.) land, adults appear m the 
