OETHOPTEEA OF INDIANA. 



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black, with a narrow yellowish outer border; the apex fuscous. Hind 

 femora slender, a little shorter than abdomen in both sexes. 



Four species of the genus are accredited to the United States. Of 

 these, one occurs in Indiana. 



47. DissoSTEiRA CAROLINA (Liniifeus). The Carolina Locust. The Black- 

 winged Locust. 



Gryllus (Locusta) carolinus L. , 8 1, I, 1758, 433. 



Locusta Carolina Harr., 70, 1833, 583; Id., 72, 1862, 176, Plate 3, Fig. 

 8; Emm., 4 9, V, 1854, 145, Plate 9, Fig. 9; Rathv., 109, 1862, 

 886, Figs. 26, 26a. 



(Edipoda Carolina Burm., 40, 11, 1838, 643; Serv., 196, 1839, 722; 

 Glov., 62, 1872, Plate V, Fig. 3; Thorn., 206, V, 1873, 117; 

 Id., 2 1 1,IX, 1880, 88, 111. 



Dissosteira Carolina Scudd., 159, 1876, 511; Id., 180, VIII, 1897, 100; 

 Id., 18 8, 1900, 36; Sauss., 134, 1884, 137; McNeill, 8 7, XIX, 

 1887, 58; Fern., 53, 1888, 43; Bl. 4, XXIII, 1891, 78; Id., 16, 

 1899, 242, Fig. 69; Smith, 197, XO, 1892, 6, 12, 34, Plate 1, 

 Fig. 4k; Beut., 3, VI, 1894, 298, Plate X, Fig. 6; Morse 9 9, 

 Vin, 1897, 35, 87; Lugg., 8 4, 1898, 158, Fig. 95. 



General color varying from light grayish yellow through bright 

 reddish brown to dark fuse'ous; usually dull ashy brown, sprinkled 

 with numerous small dusky spots; these most numerous on the pro- 

 notum and tegmina, on the latter sometimes forming three more or 

 less distinct cross bands. Wings deep black except the outer border, 



Fig. 57. Dissosteira Carolina (Linn.). Female. (After Lugger.) 



which is pale greenish yellow; the apex smoky gray with a few darker 

 spots. Hind femora with three broad black bands on the inner face. 

 Hind tibige yellowish or dusky. 



