NO. l6.] ORTHOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT. 9! 



as they grade into each other, only two forms are usually 

 recognized, the green form, virginiana, and the brown form, 

 infuscata. Many of the females can be referred to the green 

 form while the majority of the males are brown. Virginiana 

 usually has the head, pronotum, and outer face of hind femora 

 bright green with a broad stripe of the same color along the 

 basal two-thirds of the outer edge of the tegmina. The re- 

 mainder of tegmina is light brown, and the abdomen reddish 

 brown. In the brown form the tegmina are more or less mottled 

 with light and dark brown. The inner wings of both forms are 

 transparent, yellowish at the base, with the apical two-thirds 

 smoky, becoming paler at apex; along the middle of the front 

 margin is a dark bar. Hind tibiae pale to dark brown, often 

 with a pink, purple, or bluish cast, and with more or less distinct 

 black bars on inner face which often show on the upper outer 

 groove. 



Measurements. 



Body Antennae Tegmina Hind Femora 



Female 22-32 6-8 18.6-25 13 -15.5 



Male 17-20 6-8 16.8-20 10.5-12.5 



This species passes the winter in the nymph stage and the 

 adults appear during the last of April, being the earliest as well 

 as one of the most common of our springtime locusts. It is 

 scarce during August, but is found from September until frost. 

 It occurs throughout the state. 



Encoptolophus Scudder. 



Head somewhat swollen. Body a little shorter and stouter 

 than in Chortophaga. Vertex broad, triangular, with the disk 

 lower than the occiput. Median carina present but reaching only 

 to the middle of the disk. Foveolae long, triangular. Frontal 

 costa narrow, deeply sulcate its entire length in the male, sulcate 

 only above the ocellus in the female. Antennas about as long as 

 the head plus the pronotum in the female, somewhat longer in 

 the male, moderately flattened apically. Pronotum with the disk 

 flat, the front margin nearly truncate, the posterior margin right- 

 angled. The median carina cut at the middle, the front half 

 slightly higher. The sides deeper than long, compressed, and 

 much wrinkled. Tegmina rather broad, equaling or slightly sur- 

 passing the abdomen in the female, always surpassing it in the 



