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but short and it is not difficult to capture. The male flies in 

 a circling course, and usually stridulates, producing a fine, 

 sharp crepitation ; the female flies farther and more directly. 

 We have but a single brood in our state; the eggs hatch late 

 in summer and the voung do not mature until the following 

 spring. The form infuscata is always more common than 

 the green one. 



GENUS Encoptolophus Scudder (1875). 



Head but little swollen above, front vertical above- 

 roundlv sloping below, a little constricted above the an- 

 tenna; eves separated by about their own width, mode- 

 rately large, somewhat elliptical; antennas rather short and 

 flattened ; top of pronotum nearly flat, the median carina 

 abrupt, but not greatly elevated, cut into halves by a dis- 

 tinct though slight notch; lateral carinas distinct but 

 broken, very slightly curved; hind margui of pronotum 

 forming aright angle; wing-covers reaching but little be- 

 yond the end of the abdomen. The intercalary vein of the 

 tegmina distinctly nearer the ulnar than the median vein ; 

 the veins next the costal margin and the median vein dis- 

 tinctly incrassate in the male. 



THE CLOUDED LOCUST. 



Encoptolophus sordidus Burmeister. 



Dusk}^ brown; wing-covers pale, clouded and spotted in 

 such a manner that two transparent spots or fascia are 

 distinctlv marked; wings transparent, faintly yellowish at 

 base, dusky at tip, with a dark narrow edge on the front 

 margin ; hind femora brown, with the three black bands 

 separated by four light-brown spaces; hind tibias brownish- 

 black; with a white ring below the knees. Antennae pale at 

 base, fuscous at the apex. 



Measurements :— Male : Total length, 21-2S.5 ram.; of 

 body, 19-21.5 mm.; of tegmina, 15-19.5 mm.; of hind fem- 

 ora. 11-12 mm.; of antennae, 8-9 mm. Female: Total 



