August 1S96.] 



PSYCHE. 



409 



striped lengthwise or not, and the sides 

 of the pronotum banded or not, exactly 

 as in aequalis; but there seem to be 

 fewer individuals showing intermediate 

 shades of coloring. 



Antenna. Hind fein. Teg. Teg > Hind fern. 



rS 4.7-6-S 8.5-9. S 12.5-16.5 1-4.5 



5-5-7 I0.5-IJ.5 13.5-20 .5-3 



In the $ the hind femora usually 

 extend 3mm. beyond the end of the 

 abdomen, in the ? a little less. 



This species begins to appear about 

 the middle of July, being a week or 

 two later than aeqztalis, and may be 

 found during the remainder of the sea- 

 son. The earliest date on which I 

 have taken it is July iS and the latest 

 Sept. 8. It is an active and alert spe- 

 cies, leaping well and also flying freely 

 and vk'ell, sometimes for two or three 

 rods. I have found it common along 

 the seashore of the three southern New 

 England States, and in the northeastern 

 part of Conn. It is found on the drier 

 portions of the land adjoining salt- 

 marshes, on the more densely grassed 

 portions of groimd just inshore of the 

 sandy beaches, and on sandy or loamy 

 soil further inland. 



In Conn. I have taken it at Green- 

 wich, Stamford, North Haven, Deep 

 River, Niantic, Montville, Thompson ; 

 in R. I. at Kingston, Wickford, and 

 on Block Id. ; in Mass. on Cuttyhunk 

 and Penikese Ids., at West Chop, M. 

 v.. Wood's HoU, Provincetown, Re- 

 vere, and a single (J and 9 at Welles- 



ley. The specimens referred to this 

 species in Smith's Orth. of Maine are 

 longwinged examples of aequalis, as 

 probably are also those spoken of by 

 Scudder in Distribution of insects in 

 N. H. where this species is said to 

 occur in the White Mt. valleys and else- 

 where. 



g. Orphula aequalis Scudd. Figs. 

 9, 9a, 9b, 9c. 



Stenobothriis aequalis. Scudder, 



459, 1S63. Thomas, S'j. Beuten- 

 miiller 394. Morse, 14, 104; Psyche, 

 •93, p. 47S. 



Stenobothrus bilineatus. Scudder, 



460. Thomas. 90. 



Stenobothrus ?naculipentiis, in part. 

 Fernald, 37. Comstock, Introd., 102. 

 Smith, Orth. Me., 14S ; Orth. Conn., 



376- 



This species is one of our most 

 variable locusts in color and markings, 

 and to a scarcely less extent in struc- 

 ture. The tegmina and wings, while 

 usually about reaching the end of the 

 hind femora, are often considerably 

 shorter, and occasionally extend beyond 

 them. The long-winged specimens 

 occur everywhere but seem to vary 

 in numbers locally, being common in 

 the hilly, elevated districts of Norway, 

 Me., and Adams, Mass., but very 

 scarce in the vicinity of Wellesley. 

 Long-winged females are rather more 

 common than males. 



In color the disroldal field of the 

 tegmina is tolerably uniform, being 

 brownish, pellucid distally, more or 

 less maculate with fuscous spots, or 

 even unspotted. The costal (niargi- 



