420 



PS rCHE. 



[September iSg6. 



about reaches the tip of the hind 

 femora, in the male it falls short by 3 

 to 4 mm. 



McNeill was the first to announce the 

 occurrence of long-winged individuals 

 in this species in Illinois; Blatchley 

 captured a female in Indiana, and last 

 season I secured two in Sherborn, Mass. 

 I have not seen a male with functional 

 wings. This form may be distinguished 

 &% prima. These two females measure 

 as follows : 



Tegmiua. Wing. Teg-^- Hind fern. Total length. 



Long. Wide. Long. Wide. 



1(5.5 4-7 "8 S.5 2 27 



2o 4.8 i.S 8.5 3 28 



W^iile not abundant, this species is 

 common locally in suitable situations. 

 It seems tta prefer bushy pastures or 

 edges of pine woods but is found 

 wherever old stumps or fragments of 

 soft or decaying wood are accessible as 

 a nidus for its eggs. I have several 

 times found it associated in locality with 

 Ps. brachyptera and Mel. " rectus " 

 with the one in bunch-grass, with the 

 other in low bushes, etc., in both cases 

 in close proximity to woodland. The 

 females are rather sluggish and easily 

 captured, moving of necessity by crawl- 

 ing and leaping, but the males are 

 quite alert and active. 



It may be found from the latter part 

 of June throughout the season. I have 

 taken the adult $ on June 34, and the 

 9 on Oct. 7. I have collected speci- 

 mens at Deering, Fryeburg, Norway, 

 and Stoneham, Me. ; No. Convvav, sum- 

 mit of Kearsarge Mt., and Jackson, 

 N. H. ; Hyde Park, Jay, and St. Johns- 



bury, Vt. ; Wellesley and several towns 

 in its vicinity, VVinchendon, Wood's 

 HoU, and West Chop, M. V., Mass. ; 

 Wickford, R. I. ; Canaan, Montville, 

 New Haven, Niantic, and Stamford, 

 Conn. >:i 



An interesting account of its oviposi- 

 tion is given in Smith's Orthoptera of 

 Maine (also Orth. of Conn.) and, to- 

 gether with additional matter, in Scud- 

 der's Distribution of Insects in New 

 Hampsiiire. The latter work contains 

 a description and notation of its songs 

 in sunshine and shadow, which may 

 also lie found in tiie 33rd annual report 

 of the Entomological Society of Ontario. 



9. Stenobothrus Fisch. 



Stenobothrus Fischer, 1S53. Orth. 

 europ., p. 313. 



13. Stenobothrus curtipennis Harr. 



Fig. 13. 



Locusta ( Chloealtis) ciirtipouiis. 

 Harris, Rep't, 149, 1S41 ; ed. 1S63, 

 184. 



Stenobothrus curtipetinis. Scudder. 



456. Thomas, 91. Smith, Orth. Me., 

 147. Fernald, 3?. Morse, 14, 104. 

 Beutenmilller, 394. 



Long-winged form, longipennis. 



Stenobothrus longipennis. Scudder, 



457, 1863. = var. of curtipennis. 

 Smith, Thomas, Morse, cit. supra. 



This species is the only true Steno- 

 bothrus occurring in New England, and, 

 while one of the most variable of our 

 locusts in color, markings and wing- 



