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of both sexes rather slender. Abdomen of male recurved at 
apex, the subgenital plate tiiberculate posteriorly. Cerci long, 
straight, tapering in basal half to two-thirds or one-half their 
basal width, flattened at the tip, which is rounded dorsally, angu- 
late ventrally, black. Furcula processes slender, tapering, black, 
about twice as long as last dorsal segment. 
Color: dark olive green above; yellowish or greenish white 
beneath, legs greenish, hind femora rich cherry red beneath. 
Lateral lobes of pronotum white below, greenish black on dorsal 
half, this continued anteriorly and posteriorly on head and thorax 
and in male along sides of dorsum of abdomen. In the male a 
dorsal median stripe of greenish yellow or white covers pronotum, 
and is continued backward as a row of spots on abdomen. Eyes 
olive brown. Hind tibiae green, hind femora often indistinctly 
fasciate. Entire body thinly clothed with moderately long, 
colorless pubescence. Surface of body of male shining, of female 
waxy. In young examples of both sexes, and rarely in adults, 
the color above is not solid but mottled, giving a variegated 
appearance. Rarely (in the female especially), the olive green 
of the upper surface is suffused with claret red. 
Measurements. 
Body Hind femora Antenna 
Male 15-17.5 9.5-10.8 8-9 
Female 19-28 10 -12 7-8.5 mm. 
This singular species received the name of Wingless Mountain 
Locust from specimens captured in the White Mountain region 
of New Hampshire, but, as we know today, it is a mountain 
species only in the warmer part of its range. It is a common 
and widely distributed inhabitant of the colder and damper parts 
of the boreal area of New England, being more completely at 
home in the moist zone of the mountains and the damp forests 
and brushy bogs and swamps of the northern and eastern sec- 
tions. It is a thicket-lover and as such is characteristic of the 
subalpine region of the higher mountains, but search has revealed 
that it is equally common at low levels in similar conditions. 
Thus, in Maine, I have found it in sphagnum bogs near Lake 
Umbagog but slightly above the lake level (about 1,250 feet); 
Harvey (Psyche, vol. 8, p. 77, 1897) took it at Jackman at an 
elevation of approximately 500 feet in open woods and bogs; 
