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one-half times as long as broad, tapering a little to a broad, trun- 
cate tip which is shallowly sulcate externally. Cerci of female 
short, broadly lanceolate. 
Color: reddish or yellowish brown above, much varied with 
spots and stripes, yellowish beneath. A broad yellow mid- 
dorsal stripe from vertex to end of dorsal field of tegmina. Eyes 
brown. Face yellow, with dusky stripe running downward from 
eyes. Sides of prozone with three longitudinal yellow stripes on 
dorsal and ventral margins and in middle; sides of metazone 
yellow. Sides of meta- and mesothorax with wide yellow oblique 
stripes. Tegmina semitransparent on distal portion, heavily 
maculate with dark brown spots, and yellow along costal border. 
Fig. 85. — ^American Locust, Schistocerca serialis. Male. (After Lugger.) 
Wings transparent, veins yellow toward base. Hind femora 
yellow with one or two dusky streaks on outer face. Hind tibiae 
yellowish or red, spines yellow, tipped with black. 
Measurements. 
Total Body Tegmina Hind femora Antenna 
Male 52-55 3&-42 42-44 23-24 12 
Female 62-68 48-55 50-55 28-30 13-15 mm. 
This large and handsome Locust will be recognized at once by 
its great size and conspicuous markings. It occurs in New Eng- 
land but rarely, and must be considered as a purely adventive 
species, a wanderer from the Southwest. It has been repeatedly 
observed near New York City and it probably reaches south- 
western Connecticut not infrequently. Walden reports taking 
a female at Hamden, Ct., a few miles north of New Haven on 
August 23. Mr. F. H. Sprague reported finding it at Wollaston, 
Mass., near Boston, on October 1, 1883, "tolerably abundant in 
one spot on the beach, among the tall grass below high-tide mark." 
No satisfactory explanation of its occurrence in numbers at this 
