ibS SECOND REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



(Edipoda Virginiana BunyiEiSTKu: Handb. d. Eutomol., ii, 1838, p. 645. 

 Locusta {Tragocephala) mridi-fasciata Harkis: Kept Ins. Mass., 1841, p. 147; 



Ins. N. Engl., IH.W, pp. 158-9; Ins. Inj. Veg., 1862, p. 182, pi. 3, f. 2. 

 Locusta (Tragocephala) infuseata Harris: Rept. Ins. Mass., p. 147; Ins. N. Engl., 



1852, p. 158; Ins. Inj. Veg., 1862, pp. 181-2. 

 Locusta {Tragocephala) radiata Harris: Rept. Ins. Mass., 1841. P. 148; Ins. N. 



Engl., 1852, p. 159; Ins. Inj. Veg., 1832, pp. 180-4. 

 Gomphocerus mridi-fasciata Uhler: in Ilarr. Ins. Inj. Veg 1862, p. 181; ib. 



as Gomphocerus infuscatus and G. radiatus. 

 Tragocephala viridi-fasciata. Scudder: in Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., vii,1862, p. 431; 



Cat. Orthop. N A.— Smithson. Miss. Coll, No. 189, 1868, p. 82; Entomolog. 



Notes, iv, 1875, pp. 80-82. 

 Tragocephala viridifasciata. Glover: Illus. N. A. Eut. — Orthop., 1872, pi. 5, f. 9. 

 Tragocephala viridifasciata. Riley: 8th Rept. Ins. Mo., 1870, p. 149, f. 46. 

 Chimarocephala viridifasciata Scudder: in U. S. Geograph. Surv. West of 100th 



Mer., 1876, p. 508. 

 Tragocephala riridifasciata. Tnoyixs: 9th Rept. Ins. 111., 1880, pp. 85, 93, 105-6, 



figs. 13, 17: Synop. Acrid. N. A. (in Hayden's Rept. U. S. Geolog. Surv. 



Terr., v, 1873), 1873, pp. 103-4, pi. f. 3; id., p. 102, as T. u/iifasciata 



Harr. 

 Tragocephala viridifasciata. Lintn.: in Count. Gent., Mch. 9, 1882, xlvii, p. 189 



(winter appearance). 

 Chimarocephala viridifasciata. Bruner: in 3d Rept. U. S. Ent. Commis., 1883, p. 



56 (in list of N. American Acrididae). 



Midwinter Appearance of the Insect. 



In several portions of the State of New York — at its eastern and 

 western extremities, and at intermediate localities, much interest was 

 excited, and in some cases considerable alarm, by the sudden appear- 

 ance in the pastures and meadows at about the middle of February, 

 1882, of large numbers of this insect, hopping about in the warm sun- 

 shine, almost as actively as in the month of June. 



My attention was called to them by a note received from Mr. G. M. 

 Gillette, of Bergen, Genesee county, in which he wrote: 



I to-day mail you what I should term grasshoppers if it were only 

 later in the season. They are as plentiful as in the month of July. On 

 the 14th of this month, they could be seen by the million sunning them- 

 selves on the south side of stone walls in this vicinity. 



Examination showed them to be the young of the Green-striped 

 locust, the Locusta {Tragocephala) viridifasciata o[ the Harris Reports. 



They measured from four- 

 tenths to six-tenths of 

 an inch in length — the 

 smaller being in the larval 

 stage, without indication 



Fig .M.— The Green-striped Locust, Chimarocephala viridi- of the wing-pads, and the 

 FABCIATa: a, larva; 6, adult. . 



larger ni the pupal stage. 



