MORSE: ORTHOPTERA OF NEW ENGLAND. 469 
ture though quite active on warm days. Its crepitation during 
flight is rather dull and less often sounded, though frequently 
heard when the insect is not alarmed. 
It doubtless inhabits all of the New England States, having 
been taken, among other places, at Brunswick, Me.; Manchester, 
N. H.; in Vermont (Scudder); central and eastern Massachu- 
setts — Easthampton, Essex Co., Wellesley, Cape Cod, Nantucket, 
Martha's Vineyard; and Thompson, Plainfield, Niantic, and 
North Haven, Ct. 
Wyomingianum is said to be even more a sand-loving species 
than scudder i, frequenting sandy fields, either cultivated or 
untilled, and the margins of lakes, a habitat usually much paler 
in tint than the home of scudderi, as is indicated by its color- 
ing. Typical examples occur on Staten Island., N. Y., and 
will probably be found in southern Connecticut. 
Boll's Locust. 
Spharagemon bolli Scudder. 
Plate 21, fig. 16-19. 
Spharagemon bolli Scudder, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 17, p. 469 
(1875).— Morse, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 26, p. 227 (1894).— 
Walden, Bull. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 99 (1911). 
Spharagemon halteatum Scudder, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 17, p. 469 
(1875). 
Dissosteira bollii Fernald, Orth. N. E., p. 43 (1888). 
Body compressed. Mid-carina of pronotum equally com- 
pressed and elevated throughout; notch nearly vertical and 
usually closed, the anterior and posterior lobes of the carina never 
overlapping. Disk flat in longitudinal section; posterior process 
about rectangulate. 
Color: yellowish to reddish brown in male, rusty brown to pale 
buff in female; the male averages much darker. Often a decided 
vinaceous tint is evident, and not infrequently individuals are 
seen of a claret brown or even Indian-red. Tegmina and hind 
femora usually more or less distinctly fasciate with dusky, more 
evidently so in male. Wings sulphur yellow bounded by a broad 
black band (narrower than in S. collare) which falls short of the 
anal angle and sends off a sub-frontal shoot toward base; beyond 
this band the wings are clear or smoky, and usually more (cf ) or 
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