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PSYCHE. 



[August 1896. 



nal) and anal areas are very variable 

 and may agree or differ in color with 

 each other or with the top of the head 

 and pronotnm. These variations are 

 endless but the more striking ones 

 are the following : 



Head. Pronotum. 

 I Green. Green. 



X Brown Brown 



Tegmina. 



Green. 

 Rose-red. 



Brown. 



The occiput may or may not have a 

 pair of longitudinal fuscous stripes, 

 and the lower half of the side of the 

 pronotum may or may not be crossed 

 by an irregular fuscous band. These 

 variations in color of particuhir parts 

 occur independently of each other and 

 of wing-length and vary extremely in 

 tint. For instance, the general color 

 of the insect being brown or green 

 the dorsum of the pronotum may be 

 pale gray or dark fuscous. The color 

 of a large series of specimens, how- 

 ever, seems to agree to some e.xtent 

 with that of the environment, whether 

 damp and the vegetation largely green- 

 ish, or dry and chiefly brown. Brown 

 females are most plentiful and green 

 males least so, though not uncommon. 



Body. Total. 



■3-'4 ~ -,~ 13-18.5 

 16-21. 5 ^(5.5-21 



This species maker, its appearance 

 the first week in July and probably 

 may be found during the remainder 



of the season, though becoming scarce 

 in October. It is plentiful by July 

 15 and still common at the middle of 

 September. It is one of the inost 

 plentiful and widespread of all our 

 locusts but owing to its small size 

 and non-migratory habits does not 

 attract the attention given to the 

 larger and consequentlv more destruct- 

 ive species. While somewhat local 

 it is found nearly evervwhere on drv, 

 sandy or loamy soils, sometimes in 

 company with tnacnlipeniiis near the 

 coast, and abundantlv inland. It 

 moves chiefly by leaping, but readily 

 takes wing on occasion, fl3'ing, how- 

 ever, but a few feet. Active and 

 alert in the hot, sunny weather of 

 mid-summer, it can best be secured 

 by sweeping the net rapidly over the 

 ground, a dozen or two of specimens 

 being the result of a few minutes 

 work. 



Of this species I have about 1500 

 specimens mostly of my own collecting, 

 from many localities, among thein the 

 following : Deering, Fryeburg, Norway, 

 and Speckled Mt., Me. ; Hanover (Prof. 

 C. M. Weed), No. Conway, Kearsarge 

 Mt. (2000 ft.), and Kingston (S. W. 

 Denton), N. H. ; Brattleboro' (Mrs. J. 

 B. Powers), Vt. ; Canaan, Stamford, 

 New Haven, Niantic, and Thompson, 

 Conn. ; Kingston and VVickford, R. I. ; 

 Cuttvhunk and Penikese Ids., West 

 Chop. M. v.. Wood's Holl, Mt. Her- 

 mon and Easthampton (S. W. Den- 

 ton), Adams, Palmer, Worcester, 

 Belmont (C. J. Maynard), Revere, 

 Blue Hill, and the vicinity of Wellesley. 



