OBTHOPTERA OF INDIANA. 383 



102. Orchelimum vulgare Harris. The Common Meadow Grasshopper. 



Orchelim urn vulgarc B-arris, 72, 1862, 162, Fig. 77; Scudd., 142, 11, 

 1868, li7 (note of set to music); Id., 168, XXUI, 1892, 73 

 (note of set to music); Pack., 104, 1883, 567; Riley, 122, n, 

 1884, 187; Oomst., 4 1, I, 1888, 114; Bl. 7, 1893, 130; Id., 16, 

 1899, 220, Fig. 52; Beut., 3, VI, 1894, 282, Plate VI, Figs. 4 

 and 5; Lugg., 84, 1898, 234, Figs. 155, 156; McNeill, 90, 

 XXXn, 1900, 78, 81. 



Xiphidium agile Redtenb., 1 10, 1891, 186. (In part.) 



Orchelimum agile Scudd., 18 8, 1900, 73. 



A mediura. sized, robust species, with the general color green or 

 light reddish brown. Face light green or light brown without fus- 

 cous marks.. The occiput and disk of pronotum with a reddish brown 

 band, widening on the latter, where it is often, especially in the male, 

 bordered on each side with a darker line. The male (as in most of 

 our species) with two short, black dashes on each wing cover, the 

 four forming the angles of an assumed square, enclosing the t5rm- 

 panum. The legs usually pale brown, the tarsi dusky. Pronotum 



Fig. 96. Orchelimum vulgare Bair IS. Male. (After Lugger.) 



long, its posterior lobe but slightly, if at all, upturned above the 

 plane of the anterior, its hind margin broadly rounded. Tegmina 

 reaching to or very slightly beyond the apex of hind femora, and 

 equaling or very little shorter than the wings. Cerci of male rather 

 long, the apex bluntly rounded, a little depressed; sub-basal tooth 

 somewhat flattened, with the tip sharp and decurved. 



Measurements: Male^ — Length of body, 18 mm.; of pronotum, 6 

 mm.; of tegmina, 21 mm.; of hind femora, 17 mm. Female — Length 

 of body, 19 m.m.; of pronotum, 6.2 mm.; of tegmina, 21 mm.; of hind 

 femora, 18 mm.; of ovipositor, 7.5 mm. 



This meadow grasshopper is probably the most abundant member 

 of the family Locustidse found in Indiana. It begins to reach ma- 

 turity in the central part of the State about July 10th, and more 

 frequently than any other of our species of Orchelimum it is found in 

 upland localities, along fence rows, and in clover and timothy 

 meadows. In early autumn it seems to be very fond of resting on 



