148 FAMILY V.-CEDIPODIN^. 



length, 28-32. Smrn.; of body, 24-35 mm. ; oftegmina, 20.5- 



24 ram.; of hind femora, 14-15.5 mm.; of antennas, 



8-9 mm. 



This is a fairly common locust, which is found irom the 



middle of August till frost, or late in October. Like the 



males of allied species the 

 male of this species al- 

 ways makes a sharp 

 crackling noise when fly- 

 ing, which it does with 

 Fig. se.—Encoptoiophus sordjdus. amazing rapidity. It is 



original. ^ ^ ^ • ^l, 



especially common m the 

 western part of our state. Its color, which is rather con- 

 stant, varying from dull rusty, yellowish, or smoky brown, 

 always protects the insect by its resemblance to the soil. It 

 delights to live in old stubble fields. Fig. 86 shows a male. 



GENUS Camnula StM. (1873). 



Head compressed ; antennae medium, a little stouter in 

 the male; hind femora with an acute margin slightly crested ; 

 ej'cs small, rather prominent, rounded kidney-shaped. Pro- 

 notum not rugose, nearly level above with median and 

 lateral carina. Wings subvitreous. 



In the markings of tegmina form and color C. pellucida 

 looks like a diminutive ^Tippyscus, to which Camnu/a is not dis- 

 tantly related. 



Camnula pellucida Scudder, 



Ash brown ; face reddish-brown ; antennae yellowish at 

 base, dark brown toward tip; a triangular black spot be- 

 hind the eye, the apex touching it; a quadrate transverse 

 black spot on the anterior upper portion of the sides ol the 

 pronotum ; pronotum above sometimes with a dark band 

 down the middle; wing-covers with the basal half dark 

 brown, with small j^ellowish spots and transverse streaks, 

 especially on front border; apical half clear, with dark 



