MORSE: ORTHOPTERA OF NEW ENGLAND. 467 
long stretches of sea-beach above the reach of the tides. It is an 
alert and wary species, keeping at a safe distance on warm summer 
days, and travels almost wholly by flight, using its relatively small 
hind legs chiefly as a means of launching itself into the air. 
Its aerial evolutions at the mating season are notable and were 
well described by Townsend (Can. Ent., vol. 16, p. 167-168, 
1884). Scudder quoted Townsend very fully (Ent. Soc. Ontario, 
23d rept., p. 77, 1893) and added several observations of his own. 
Their remarks are given at length elsewhere in this work (p. 234) . 
This Locust appears early in July — about the first week — and is 
common until late in the fall. It is found throughout all but the 
more boreal parts of New England, southward to Florida, and 
from ocean to ocean. 
Collared Locust; Barren-ground Locust. 
Spharagemon coUare (Scudder), and ijace wyomingianum (Thomas). 
Plate 21, figs. 12, 13. 
Oedipoda collaris Scudder, in Hayden's Geol. Surv. Nebraska, p. 250 (1872). 
Oedipoda wyomingianum Thomas, Ann. Rept. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., vol. 
5, p. 462 (1872). 
Locusta aequalis? Harris, Treatise, 3d ed., p. 178 (1862). 
Spharagemon collare Scudder, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 17, p. 470 
(1875). 
Spharagemon aequale Scudder, ibid., p. 468, in part. 
Spharagemon aequale subsp. scudderi Morse, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 
vol. 26, p. 225 (1894). 
Spharagemon oculatum Morse, ibid., p. 232. 
Spharagemon collare, race scudderi Morse, Psyche, vol. 7, p. 297 (1895). 
Spharagemon collare race wyomingianum Morse, ibid., p. 298. 
Spharagemon collare vars. scudderi and wyomingianum Walden, Bull. Geol. 
Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 98 (1911). 
Body moderately compressed. Head with crown and cheeks 
more tumid than in S. holli and S. saxatile. Mid-carina of prono- 
tum cristate, high on both pr ozone and metazone, the notch 
oblique, the two lobes often shghtly overlapping. Posterior 
process distinctly acute-angled in both sexes. 
Prevailing color brown, paler in wyomingianum, sand-color or 
light red but sometimes considerably infuscated; darker in scud- 
deri, ranging from yellowish drab to deep rufous or claret brown 
