PSYCHE. 



271 



Vineyard, Mass., and Deep River, North 

 Haven and Stamford, Ct., where I 

 found it most at home in the long sedge 

 and coarse weeds of moist meadows and 

 bushy swamps. The males apparently 

 greatly outnumber the other sex and 

 being more active are more likely to be 

 seen and secured than the relatively 

 sluggish females. On warm days both 

 se.ves fly freely, frequently alighting on 

 bushes and trees. Adults begin to 

 appear in the second week of August 

 but immature specimens may be found 

 three weeks or a month later. 



The last of August or early September 

 is the most favorable time for collect- 

 ing. 



T,2,. Schistocerca americana Drury. 



Gryllus ameitcantts. Drury, lUustr. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. H, app., (1773) name?. 

 Fig. in vol. I, pi. 49, fig. 2 ; described, 

 p. 12S, (1770). 



Locustii tartai'ica } Drury, Exot. 

 Entom., Westwood ed., vol. I, p. 121, 

 pi. 49, fig. 2 (1839). 



AcridiuM americatium. Scudder, Ma- 

 terials, 466 ; Comstock, Introd., 106 ; 

 Beutenmtiller, Orth. N. Y., 304. 



Six males, six females from Indiana 

 give the following measurements : — An- 

 tenna : c?, 12 ; 9 , 13-15. H. fern. : ^, 

 23-24; 9, 28-30. Teg.: (?, 42-44; 

 5. 5°-SS- Teg. pass H. fem. : f, 

 10-12; 9, 12-16. Body: (J, 39-42; 

 9, 48-55- Total : S, 52-55; ?. 

 62-68 mm. 



This handsome locust will be readily 

 recognized by its great size and con- 



spicuous markings (see fig. in Comstock, 

 and Beutenmiiller, loc. cit.). It is 

 rarely found in New England and must 

 be considered a purely adventitious 

 species, specimens observed being 

 simply wanderers from the southwest. 

 It has been taken several times in the 

 vicinity of New York City and probably 

 reaches southwestern Connecticut not 

 very infrequently, but its occurrence 

 near Boston was quite unexpected. On 

 Oct. r, 1883, it was found by Mr. F. H. 

 Sprague at Wollaston, Mass., where it 

 was '■ tolerably abundant in one spot on 

 the beach, among the tall grass below 

 high-tide mark" (Psyche, Dec. 1895, p. 

 318). In the vicinity of New York it is 

 said by Beutenmtiller to occur from 

 early May to early July and again from 

 the latter part of September to early 

 November. 



23. Hesperotkttix Scudd. 



Hesperotettix Scudder 1876. Bull. 

 U. S. Surv. Terr., II, p. 262. 



34. Hesperotettix brevipennis 



Thomas. 



Omtiuitolampis brevipennis. Thomas, 

 Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., I, No. 2, 

 ist Ser., p. 67 (1874). 



Hesperotettix viridis. Morse, — List, 

 103, 106. 



Hesperotettix brevipennis. Scudder, — 

 Rev. Melanopli, 63, pi. v, fig. 2. 



Measurements from 24 ^, 18 9 : — 

 Antenna: $, 7.25-8.5; 9, 6.3-7.2. 

 H. fem.: $, g.5-10.5 ; 9, II. 8-12. 7. 

 Teg.: <J, 7.6-10; 9,9.7-11.7. Body: 



