48 A NATURE WOOING. 



examples of a large locust, Schistocerca damnificum 

 Sauss. It is closely allied to 8. alutacea Harris, but 

 the antennae of the male are shorter and the yellow 

 line along the middle of pronotum and tegmina is 

 much less prominent, while the notch at the apex of 

 sub-genital plate of the same sex is narrowly V- 

 shaped, rather than broadly U-shaped as in alutacea. 

 Many specimens of damnificum are flushed from 

 clumps of a coarse brown bunch grass the exact color 

 of its body. They fly long distances to limbs of pine 

 or other trees, around which they dodge, and from 

 which they are taken with the hand. The Tryxalid, 

 Amblytropidia occidentalis Sauss., once before men- 

 tioned, has become common in this old orchard. It, 

 too, occurs only in the clumps of brown grass, which 

 give it protection on account of its hue. This grass 

 is, for the most part, overgrown with tangled masses 

 of smilax, so that operations are necessarily slow and 

 arduous. When aroused these locusts fly always to a 

 clump of the same grass and dive into it, burrowing 

 down among the roots until they are most difficult to 

 find, so that I lose more than I take. 



That large and handsome sulphur-colored butter- 

 fly, Callidryas eubule L., is just emerging. I note a 

 number of them to-day, but they fly wild and I secure 

 but one male. It ranges from central Indiana, where, 

 in August, I have taken it in numbers on the sand 

 hills along the "Wabash River, southward and west- 

 ward to southern California a vast territory for so 



