MORSE: ORTHOPTERA OF NEW ENGLAND. 533 
The Ornate Pygmy Locust is found in wet meadows, but also 
quite as frequently in damp spots on drier upland soils. It 
usually occurs in but small numbers, though sometimes a dozen 
or two may be secured in a favorable locality. 
Adults are most common in spring and fall but may be met 
with at any time during the season, and they doubtless hiber- 
nate here since they have been observed to do so in Indiana. 
A. ornatum is found throughout New England and over a 
wide extent of country to the westward. 
Hancock's Pygmy Locust. 
Acrydium hancocki (Morse). 
Plate 24, fig. 11. 
Tettix hancocki Morse, Joum. N, Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 3, p. 200 (1899). — Han- 
cock, Tett. N. A., p. 81 (1902). 
The color pattern is much like that of A. ornatum, but even 
more broken up, giving a mottled appearance. 
Measurements. 
Total Pronotiun Hind femora 
Male 8.3-13 8-12 5-6 mm. 
This robust, broad-shouldered form of the ornatum series, 
described originally from Iowa, has been found in northern New 
England. I took a single example at Randolph, N. H., July 12, 
1898. An example in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at 
Cambridge, Mass., bears the data: "White Mts., N. H., Aug. 15, 
1895." It was collected by F. H. Sprague, who frequently 
visited Randolph and collected there, — so these two specimens 
may have come from the same locality. I found it in small 
numbers at Houlton, Fort Fairfield, and Fort Kent, in northern 
Maine, August 24-28, 1913, in damp spots along roadsides and 
in fields. 
Obscure Pygmy Locust. 
Acrydium arenosiun angustum (Hancock). 
Plate 24, fig. 12. 
Tetrix arenosa Burmeister, Handb. d. Ent., vol. 2, p. 659 (1839). 
Tettix angiistus Hancock, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 23, p. 238 (1900). 
Tettix ohscurus Hancock, Tett. N. A., p. 87 (1902). 
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