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as long as the width of base; acuminate, stout at base, tapering to 

 a slender tip. 



" General color pale yellowish green, dorsum and tegmina dull 

 yellowish brown. Lateral stripes on the sides of the prozone, more 

 or less of the bases of the abdominal segments and genicular lobes 

 of the hind femora, apex of hind tibise, tibial spines and tarsal 

 claws, black. Hind tibiae colored like the body. 



"Length of body: male, 10-12; female, 16-17; hind femora: 

 male, 7.5-8; female, 9.5-11; antenna: male and female, 8-8.5; 

 tegmina: male, 1.7 X 2 to 2X2.5; female, 3X3.5 to 3.3X4 mm." 

 South Carolina: Denmark, Aug. 15. 

 Georgia: Waycross, Aug. n. 



Lower Austral. (See note on habitat under Gymnostirtetes 

 pusillus.} 



Hespetotettix floridensis Morse. 

 Georgia: Waycross, Aug. n. 

 Lower Austral. A single female only was obtained. 



Hespcrotettix brevipennis Thorn. 



Georgia: Sand Mountain, near Flat Rock, Aug. 25. 

 Upper Austral (?) zone. This species is known only from 

 eastern Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Georgia. It is exceedingly 

 local. In Massachusetts it is found on bunch-grass (Andropogon 

 scoparius), in New jersey it is reported from cranberry bogs. A 

 single pair were taken on the Sand Mountain plateau on bunch- 

 grass in open deciduous woods. 



Hesperotettix pratensis Scudd. 



Florida : Carrabelle, Aug. 9 ; Fort Barrancas, Aug. 3 ; Warrington, Aug. 4. 

 Austral zones, from Florida and Indiana westward. (See page 

 1 6 for remarks on the habitat of this species, and PL 5, Fig. i.) 

 Podisma glacialis vattegata Scudd. 



Podisma variegata Scudd. Rev. Mel., 97, 101. 



Podisma glacialis variegata. Walker, Can. Ent., Nov., 1903. 



North Carolina : (Balsam, Aug. 19, Jones Peak, 5800 feet., juv.) ; Grand- 

 father Mountain, Aug. 29 ; (Pineola, July 14, juv.) ; Roan Mountain, 

 Sept. i. 



Canadian and colder part of Transition zones. This locust 

 seems to be rather widely distributed in the higher parts of the 

 North Carolina mountains, inhabiting shrubby undergrowth and 

 thickets of weeds and bushes throughout the mountains. (PL i, 

 Figs, i, 2.) It is a sluggish and secretive species and but few 

 examples were observed. It should be looked for on the Virginia 

 mountains above an altitude of 3,000 feet. 



