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perpendicular to the surface and the grain of the wood, then 
turns abruptly and runs parallel with the grain at about three- 
eighths of an inch from the surface, the entire length being an 
inch or more. The eggs to the number of from ten to fourteen 
are laid in the deeper part of the hole which is then closed by a 
gummy substance. "When a good piece of wood is discovered, 
the nests are crowded thickly together; and a stick less than 
two inches in diameter and five inches in length contained 
thirteen completed nests" (Scudder). But many attempts 
are often made in unsuitable wood, resulting in failure to pene- 
trate. Fuller descriptions of observations will be found in 
Smith's "Orthoptera of Maine" and "Orthoptera of Connecticut," 
Scudder's "Distribution of Insects in New Hampshire," and 
Blatchley's "Orthoptera of Indiana." 
The females are relatively sluggish and are easily captured, 
moving of necessity, owing to the brevity of their wings, only by 
crawling and leaping; the males are much more alert and active. 
It matures early in the season, in late June and early July, and 
scattering females survive till late in the autumn. It probably 
inhabits the whole of New England, and extends outside our 
borders to Alabama, Arkansas, etc. 
Meadow Locust. 
Chorthippus curtipennis (Harris). 
Plate 20, fig. 20. 
Locusta curtipennis Harris, Cat. Ins. Mass., p. 56 (1835). 
Locusta (Chloealtis) curtipennis Harris, Treatise, 3d ed., p. 184 (1862). 
Stenobothrus curtipennis Scudder, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, p. 456 
(1862).— Smith, Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, p. 147 (1868). 
— Fernald, Orth. N. E., p. 37 (1888).— Morse, Psyche, vol. 7, p. 420 
(1896).— Walden, Bull. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 83 (1911). 
Stenobothrus longipennis Scudder, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, p. 457 
(1862). 
Antennae slightly flattened, once and a half ( 9 ) or twice (cf) 
as long as head and pronotum. Vertex short, triangular, nearly 
horizontal, but httle narrowed by the eyes; foveolae conspic- 
uous. Disk of pronotum nearly flat. Lateral and median 
carinae equally developed, the lateral carinae convergent to 
middle of prozone, evenly divergent to shoulders; prozone usu- 
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