MORSE: ORTHOPTERA OF NEW ENGLAND. 367 
This little Grasshopper is a very common resident of herba- 
ceous weedy jungles on damp soil a»d the more rankly growing 
grass of mowing-fields. Adults begin to appear in the latter half 
of July, and linger until killed by hard frosts. The young are to 
be found much earlier, in late May or early June, tiny, soft- 
bodied green midgets with black dorsal stripe and enormously 
long and sensitive antennae whose fragility is so great that 
it is a constant marvel how the little creatures retain them in an 
undamaged condition. 
It is abundant in suitable localities throughout southern New 
England; it is known from Eastport, Me., Jefferson, N. H., and 
Woodstock, Vt., and its range very likely extends even farther 
north. Extralimitally it is recorded from Quebec, Minnesota, 
Texas, and Florida. 
Salt-marsh Meadow-grasshopper. 
Conocephalus spartinae (Fox). 
Plate 15, fig. 36. 
Xiphidium spartinae Fox, Ent. News, vol. 23, p. Ill, text-fi.gs. 2, 5; pi. 8, 
fig. 1-6 (1912). 
Cerci moderately slender, about four times as long as broad, 
their sides nearly parallel, the apex rounded, blunt, and strongly 
flattened on its upper side. The interno-ventral tooth is shorter 
and much slenderer than in C. hrevipennis and a tuberosity Ues 
above its base (cf. PI. 13, figs. 35, 36); in side view their middle 
portion appears nearly equal, as compared with the swollen out- 
line in C. hrevipennis. Ovipositor gently but distinctly arcuate, 
about five-sixths as long as hind femora, three-fourths or five- 
sixths as long as the body. 
General color in life a vivid, faintly bluish green, shining; the 
terminal half of the abdomen conspicuously light orange, cerci 
green ; midline of head and pronotum broadly marked with chest- 
nut, darkening anteriorly. The green is frequently largely or 
wholly replaced by brownish or dusky, as in Orchelimum con- 
cinnum, another salt-marsh species. In drying, most specimens 
discolor badly, becoming brownish. 
Measurements. 
Body 
Male 10.5-12 
Female 11 -14 
Tegniina 
Hind femora 
Ovipositor 
7 -8.5 
9.5-10.5 
7.5-8.5 
11. .5-11. 7 
8-9.3 mm. 
