SCUDDER. THE GENUS SCHISTOCERCA. 475 



Acad. Sc. (Bruner), and Vera Cruz, Mex., Heyde (Bruner), Salle; 

 Yucatan, Schott; Chontales, Nicaragua; Cauca River near Medelin, 

 Colombia, Denton (Morse) ; Inagua, Bahamas ; Cuba, Gundlach, "Wright, 

 Uhler ; Isle of Pines, Scudder ; San Domingo, Frazer ; Jamaica, 

 Cockerell (Bruner); South America ; and Carcaraiia, Argentina, Jan., 

 Feb. (Bruner). 



It has also been reported from Ontario, Moffatt ; Toronto, Walker ; 

 eastern Massachusetts, Sprague, Morse ; New York, Thomas, Beuten- 

 miiller; Staten Island, Davis; New Jersey, Smith; Michigan and Ohio, 

 Bruner; Minnesota, Lugger; Iowa, Bessey, Ball; S. Dakota, Bruner; 

 Kansas, Bruner ; Kentucky, Garman ; Tennessee, Thomas ; Mississippi, 

 Weed ; Virginia, Howard ; District of Columbia, Thomas ; and St. 

 Bartholomew, Stal. 



Specimens from the West Indies are almost always of a small size, and 

 it was to these that Thuuberg applied the name serialis. 



44. Schistocerca damnifica. 



Acridium damnijicum. Sauss., Orth. Nova Amer., II. 14 (1861). 

 Cyrtacanthacris unilitmita Walk., Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus., IV. 611 (1870). 

 Acridium rubicjinosum Thorn, (nee Harr.), Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., V. 170 



(1873). 

 Acridium rugosum Prov.!, Nat. Canad., VIII. Ill (1876). 

 Acridium appendiculatum Uhl.!, MS., Scudd., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIX. 86 



(1877). 



This is a common southern species differing greatly from all other 

 species of Schistocerca, occurring in the United States east of the Great 

 Plains from Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, and Arkansas to the Gulf. 

 It is not known to extend into Mexico. It is our smallest species. 



I have seen specimens from Pennsylvania, Schaum ; Maryland, April 

 26, Sept. 30, Oct. 8, 18, Uhler; Middle States, Osten Sacken, early in 

 spring ; Virginia, May (Bruner) ; North Carolina, Shute ; Dingo Bluff, 

 Nov, 15, Parker, Maynard, and Smithville, N. C, Mar. 22, Maynard ; 

 Georgia, Morrison, Oemler; Florida, Mar. 10, Uhler, Norton, Archer, 

 March (Bruner) ; northeast Florida ; east Florida, Ashmead (Morse) ; 

 Jacksonville, April, Maynard, Palmer, Key West, Palmer, and Appa- 

 lachicola, Fla., Thaxter; Alabama, Morrison (Bruner), Baker; Texas, 

 Belfrage; Tiger Mills, Schaupp (Bruner), and Dallas, Tex., July 26, 

 Boll ; and Johnson, Aug. 18, Ashmead (Morse) and Fayetteville, Ark., 

 McNeill (Morse). 



