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pole, Mass., and in 1914 and 1915, I secured specimens at Dover, 
Mass. These are the only New England localities known, 
though it probably occurs in Rhode Island and Connecticut, and 
possibly some of our other States. 
It is very local in distribution, although the type of environ- 
ment which it frequents is of widespread occurrence and covers 
large areas. It lives among the tufted growth of bunch-grass or 
"broom-sedge" {Andropogon scoparius), on dry, sterile, sandy, 
or gravelly soil, a background with which its coloration har- 
monizes singularly well, and it is not likely to be seen without 
special and even extended search. 
It is a sluggish insect, crawling calmly about and hopping 
weakly when disturbed. The season during which adults have 
been taken appears to be relatively short, captures having been 
recorded from July 10 to August 30. 
Swamp Locust. 
Paroxya clavuliger (Serville). 
Figs. 88, 89; Plate 23, figs. 13, 14. 
Acridium (Oxya) clavuliger Serville, Orthopteres, p. 676 (1839). 
Paroxya atlantica Fernald, Orth. N. E., p. 34 (1888). 
Paroxya floridana Scudder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 20, p. 383, pi. 25, 
fig. 10 (1897).— Morse, Psyche, vol. 8, p. 296 (1898).— Walden, BuU. 
Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 122 (1911). 
Of large size and elegant form. Body nearly cylindrical, but 
slightly compressed. Antennae very long and slender. Head 
large and eyes prominent in both sexes. Mid-carina of pronotum 
distinct throughout. Tegmina long and narrow, equalling or 
falling a little short of end of body. Prosternal spine long, 
acutely conical or sub-cylindrical, very acutely pointed. Hind 
femora long, slender, but strong. Cerci long, equalling supra- 
anal plate, narrow, the apex incurved, flattened, and expanded 
nearly to the width of the base, often indistinctly bilobed by a 
slight emargination distally, the upper lobe larger, convexly 
rounded apically, the lower lobe half as wide, subangulate. The 
furcula consists of a pair of straight, parallel or divergent, flat- 
tened, tapering fingers from broad bases, about as long as last 
dorsal segment. Subgenital plate very short ventrally, the 
