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insects, the ground is always saturated, completely overflowed 
by high tides, and frequently is riddled with the burrows of 
myriads of fiddler crabs, thus differing widely from the sandy 
upland soils frequented by its congeners, 0. speciosa and 0. pelidna. 
Dates of capture range from August 11 to 28 but it probably 
could be found in the adult stage from about the first of August 
until October. 
Sprinkled Locust. 
Chloealtis conspersa Harris. 
Figs. 81, 82; Plate 20, figs. 18, 19. 
Chloealtis conspersa Harris, Report, p. 149 (1841); Treatise, 3d ed., p. 184 
(1862).— Smith, Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, p. 145 (1868); 
Rept. Ct. Bd. Agric. for 1872, p. 375 (1873).— Fernald, Orth. N. E., p. 
36 (1888).— Morse, Psyche, vol. 7, p. 419 (1896).— Walden, Bull. Geol. 
Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 83 (1911). 
Vertex bluntly triangular, wider than an eye, margins little 
elevated, foveolae absent or reduced to small pits, median carina 
feebly developed, in side view sUghtly descending, subangulate 
or rounding smoothly into the strongly retreating face. Anten- 
nae linear, flattened, slightly wider at base, once and a half or 
twice as long as head and pronotum together. Pronotum nearly 
flat above, carinae distinctly and about equally developed; 
front and hind margins nearly straight; sides uniformly slightly 
but regularly concave (cf ), or distinctly a Httle narrowed just 
behind middle of prozone and tapering in both directions ( cf , 9 ) ; 
prozone distinctly longer than metazone, lateral lobes as deep as 
long. Tegmina abbreviated, in female covering one-half of 
abdomen, in male falling just short of tip of it. Examples are 
rarely found with fully developed tegmina and wings. Hind 
81 82 
FiQ. 81. — Sprinkled Locust, Chloealtis conspersa. Male. (After Lugger.) 
Fig. 82. — Same. Female. (After Lugger.) 
