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a harmful extent that not infrequently manifests itself under 
suitable conditions. Depredations commonly attributed to the 
Red-legged Locust are probably often caused by this species. It 
appears early in the season (June 17 to 21) and continues until 
late in the fall (November 16). It is found locally over the whole 
of New England from Nantucket to Canada, from the seashore 
to the alpine summits of our highest mountains. In the summer 
of 1913, it was by far the commonest and most generally distrib- 
uted of any of the genus throughout northern and eastern Maine, 
at all elevations from the seacoast to the summit of Mt. Katahdin, 
where it was abundant in the sedge of the tableland. By pref- 
erence it inhabits sandy and gravelly spots or slopes on light soil, 
but being active and strong of wing, with a tendency to rove, it 
may be met with nearly anywhere. 
Huckleberry Locust; Banded Locust. 
Melanoplus fasciatus (Walker). 
Plate 22, figs. 23, 24. 
Acridium fasciatum Walker (Barnston MS.), Cat. Dermapt. Salt. Brit. 
Mus., vol. 4, p. 680 (1870). 
Pezotettix borealis Scudder, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, p. 464 (1862). — 
Smith, Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, p. 149 (1868).— Fernald, 
Orth. N. E., p. 30 (1888). 
Melanopliis rectus Fernau), ibid., p. 32 (1888). 
Melanoplus fasciatus Scudder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 20, p. 267, pi. 18, 
fig. 2-4 (1897).— Morse, Psyche, vol. 8, p. 53 (1898).— Walden, Bull. 
Geol. Nat. Hist. Siu-v. Ct., no. 16, p. 119 (1911). 
Of medium size and stout build, the short tegmina and the 
exceptional breadth of the thorax increase the stocky appearance 
of the insect. The pronotum is short and stout, in side view 
horizontal above, and the prozone full. The prosternal spine of 
the male is rather short, cylindrical, and blunt-tipped; of female 
short and variable, conical or cylindrical with either a conical or a 
blunt tip. Tegmina and wings variable, usually extending on the 
hind femora one-half or two-thirds their length; rarely individ- 
uals are found with fully developed tegmina and wings. Hind 
femora notably stout, well rounded in both lateral and vertical 
views. Abdomen of male strongly upturned at apex, the sub- 
genital plate in side view with lateral margins dilated at base, 
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