178 ORTHOPTERA. 



4. Locusta Maritima}^ Maritime Locust, 



Ash-gray ; face variegated with white ; . wing-covers sprin- 

 kled with minute brownish spots, and semi-transparent at tip ; 

 wings transparent, faintly tinted with yellow next the body, 

 uncolored at tip, with a series of irregular blackish spots 

 forming a curved band across the middle ; hindmost shanks 

 and feet pale yellow, with the extreme points of the spines 

 black. Length | to 1^ inch ; exp, lyV inch to 2f inches. 



This species comes very near to Mr, Kirby's description 

 of the Locusta leucostoma ; but is evidently distinct fi'om it, 

 and does not appear to have been described before. I have 

 received it from Sandwich, and have found it in great abun- 

 dance amono; the coarse iirass which o-rows near the edges 

 of our sandy beaches, but have never seen it except in the 

 immediate vicinity of the sea. It comes to maturity and lays 

 its effo-s about the middle of August or a little later. 



5. Locusta (squalis}* Barren-ground Locust. 



Ash-gray, mottled with dusky brown and white ; wing- 

 covers semi-transparent at tip, with numerous dusky spots 

 which run together so as to form three transverse bands ; 

 wings light yellow on their basal half, transparent with 

 dusky veins and a few spots at the tip, with an intermediate 

 broad black band, which, curving and becoming narrowei- 

 on the hind margin, is continued to the inner angle of the 

 wing ; hindmost shanks coral-red, with a broad white ring 

 below the knees, and the spines tipped with black. Length 

 Ij inch ; exp. 2j inches. 



Mr. Say, to whom I sent a specimen of this handsome 

 locust, informed me that it was his Gryllus equaJis, probably 

 intended for wqualis. It is found, during the months of July 



[ 13 L. marilbiin must be referred to CEdijwda. — Uhler.] 



[ 1* L. (squnlis and latipennis are merely to be separated as races of one species, 

 and cannot remain as separate species. They must be referred to tlie genus 

 (Edipoda. — Uhler.] 



