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female and equal in the male, but in one male example they 
extend two millimeters beyond the hind knees. 
I have found this prettily colored and attractive little "Grass- 
hopper" so widespread, plentiful, and conspicuous a species in the 
field that I have never been able to understand how it escaped 
notice so long in New England; apparently its presence was 
entirely unnoted until my first field season in 1891. It is most 
common on well-drained soil of sandy or gravelly loam, among 
the grasses (sweet vernal, red-top, Kentucky blue, and timothy) 
of old mowing-fields which have lain long untilled, in the heavily 
grassed portions of old bush-grown pastures, or even in the open 
glades of young forest. It is active, readily taking to wing, but 
its flight is short, seldom more than three or four yards in length. 
It is the earliest member of the genus to appear in spring, 
adults having been taken June 7. By the 20th to the 25th of 
the month, according to the weather and the lay of the land, it is 
quite common, remains so during most of July, and may be found 
through August and even into September. 
It has been recorded from Fryeburg, Me.; Jackson and North 
Conway, N. H.; Woodstock, Vt.; and many towns in Massa- 
chusetts and Connecticut. Extralimitally it inhabits the north- 
ern half of the country as far west as Colorado and Montana. 
Broad-necked Locust. 
Melanoplus luridus (Dodge). 
Plate 22, fig. 17-19; Plate 23, figs. 7, 8. 
Caloptenus luridus Dodge, Can. Ent., vol. 8, p. 11 (1876). 
Melanoplus luridus Scudder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 20, p. 344, pi. 23, 
fig. 7 (1897).— Walden, Bull. Geol. Nat. ffist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 120 
(1911). 
Melanoplus collinus Fernald, Orth. N. E., p. 32, fig. 46 (1888). — Scudder, 
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 20, p. 346, pi. 23, fig. 6 (1897).— Morse, 
Psyche, vol. 8, p. 294, pi. 7, figs. 43, 43b (1898). 
Of medium size and appearing of stout build, due to actual 
breadth of body and the relatively short tegmina, which reach 
only to about the end of the hind femora, varying 2 or 3 mil- 
limeters either way. The pronotum is short, broad, and 
decidedly convex longitudinally on the disk of the prozone, the 
mid-carina usually visible only on the metazone. Prosternal spine 
