December 1894.] 



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follows : space including ocelli, the ocelli, the 

 eyes, the antennae, the edge of l.ibriim, the 

 maxillae and palpi black, head otherwise en- 

 tirely reddish ; spot on pleura below, spot on 

 disc of metathorax surrounded by dusky 

 area, and line on hind coxae above black, 

 hind tarsi dusky, tiiorax and legs otherwise 

 entirely reddish. The black ovipositor 

 sheaths extend but a short distance beyond 

 tip of the reddish abdomen. The head is 

 wider than high. 



Toxouciiroti floriihinum Ashm. — The ovi- 

 positor is fully one-half as long as the 

 abdomen, the latter is longer and more narrow 

 than in viator. The head is smaller and 

 luuch more nari'ow. A female S[)ecimen from 

 Florida received through the kindness of 

 Mr. Ashmead. Wm. Hampton Pattou. 



NOTES ON THE ORTHOPTER.\ OF 

 PENIKESE AND CLTTTYHUNK. 



These two islands are the outermost of 

 the Elizabeth group which separates Buz- 

 zard's Bay from Vineyard Sound, Penikese 

 being considerably the smaller, somewhat 

 detached, and best known from its having 

 been the site of the marine laboratory 

 established by Louis Agassiz. The follow- 

 ing lists of orthoptera are but records of 

 the specimens obtained there while on a 

 short excursion from the Marine Biological 

 Laboratory at Wood's Holl on Aug. g, 1S93. 

 While they cannot, of course, be considered 

 complete, it may be worth while to record 

 the species obtained there at this season. 



The time spent on Cuttyhunk was but 

 little over an hour — far too short to allow of 

 even an attempt to cover the island. On 

 Penikese, however, nearly two hours were 

 spent, and the island quite well examined. 



One noticeable feature is the apparent 

 absence of Trimerotropis maritiina from 

 Penikese, where it was expected and sought 

 for; this is perhaps due to the limited area 

 of sandy beach on that island. Although 

 not seen on Cuttyhunk I have little doubt 

 that a longer search would have secured it. 



A great difference was observed between 

 the two islands in the abundance of indi- 

 viduals. On Cuttyhunk from twenty to fifty 

 specimens could be secured as readily as 

 one on Penikese. This was true particu- 

 larly of Stenobothrus acqitalis-, S. maciUi- 

 pciinis, and Melaiioplus fcmur-rubrum, the 

 fields fairly swarming with the young of 

 the latter species. This difference was 

 chiefly due, without doubt, to the large 

 number of sheep and turkeys with which 

 Penikese is stocked, which ramble over it 

 at will, and by tianipling and feeding upon 

 the young locusts greatly r-educe their 

 numbers. 



Nestling in the grass on Penikese were 

 scores of young terns, some in the down 

 and some nearly able to fly, while the air 

 was filled with the clamor of the parent 

 birds and elder offspring which circled over- 

 head or perching whitened the shore. 



Even here, — where they are to some 

 extent shielded from the persecutions of 

 their arch-destroyer, man — one was pained 

 to witness fresh evidence of the inhuman 

 human hand. Visitors of an earlier date 

 had mutilated numbers of the young terns 

 by severing the wing-tips, carrying them 

 home as trophies, mementoes of their visit, 

 leaving the crippled wretches to flutter help- 

 lessly about, doomed to a lingering death. 

 Shade of Agassiz! Science is called cruel, 

 but science was not guilty of this. 



The shadow of a tern's wing is but slight, 

 and its hue is that of the surf along the 

 shore, yet it might well forever cloud the 

 memory and darken the record of the heart- 

 less wretches who practised such devilish 

 cruelty upon the helpless innocents of 

 Penikese. 



CUTTYHUNK. 



ACRIDID.\E. 



Stenobothrus aequalis Scudd. Abundant. 



" maculipennis Scudd. " 



Stenobothrus curtipennis Harr. Common . 

 Dissosteira Carolina Linn. Common. 



