Bruner : South American Locusts. 495 



1 15. Schistocerca alutacea 1 I [arris)? 



Acrydium alutaceum Harris, Kept. Ins. Mass., p. 139, No. 1 (1841); Ik., ed. s, 



p. [73 (1862). 

 Acridium alutaceum Glover, [llustr. X. Amer., Orthopt., pi. VIII, fig. [3, pi. X, 



fig. [3 (1S7..O; Thomas, Syn. Acrid. X. Amer., pp. 169, 171 (1873). 

 Schistocerca alutacea Bruner, Publ. Neb. Acad. Sci., Ill, p. 26 (1893); Scudder, 



Proc. Amei . Acad. Ai 1- & Sci., XXXIX', pp. 445, 464, No. 27 (1899); Kkip 



News, XI 1 1, p. 312 (1902). 



Habitat. — There is a single Schistocerca nymph anions; some mis- 

 cellaneous Orthoptera taken in the Bahamas. It is referred her.- as 

 being more likely this than any other species. 



116. Schistocerca desiliens Scudder. 



Schistocerca desiliens Scudder, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci., XXXIV, pp. 443, 

 445 (1899); Bruner. Ann. Carnegie Mus., VIII, p. 126 (1910). 



Habitat. — There are two females of this species in the collection 

 coming from Santarem, Grao Para, Brazil. They were taken on the 

 7th of December, [909, by J. D. Haseman. 



1 17. Schistocerca paranensis (Burmeister). 



.[iridium paranense Burmeister, Reise La Plata Staaten, I, p. 491 (1861). 

 Schistocerca paranensis BRUNER, First Rept. Locust Comm. Buenos Aires, pp. 1-79, 



and figs. (1898); Ib., Second Rept., pp. 1— 11, 69, figs. 1, 31, 32 (1900). 

 Acridium (Schistocerca) perigrinum Berc; {nee Olivier), An. Soc. Argent., IX, pp. 



275-277 (1880). 

 Cyrtacanthacris approximans Walker, Cat. Dermapt. Salt. Brit. Mus., Ill, p. 572, 



No. 44 (1870). 



Habitat. — There are specimens of this insect before me coming from 

 Sao Paulo, Brazil; Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia; and Rio Xegro, 

 Santa Isabel, Uruguay. The specimens coming from the last locality 

 were taken February 12, 1909, and contained in a box with Scyllina 

 conspersipennis, and bear the label "by the billions, a great pest in 

 all central southern S. America this year — eat everything except 

 leaves of coffee plain." 



This is the chief destructive locust of Argentina and adjoining South 

 American countries, Uruguay. Paraguay, Brazil, and Bolivia. In 

 Chile mosl of the destruction is perhaps the work of 5'. cancellata 

 Serville. 



11S. Schistocerca gratissima Rehn. 



Schistocerca gratissima Rehn, Proc. Acad. Xat. Sci. I'hila.. Feb., 1908, pp. 20-22, 

 figs. 4. 5; Bruner, Ann. Carnegie Mus., VIII, p. i_>.s. note. 



