110 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Deep River, New Haven, North Haven, Stamford, Greenwich 

 (A. P. M.) ; Westville, 7 August, 19 October, Granby, 7 October 

 (W. E. B.) ; West Rock, 29 October (E. J. S. M.) ; Yalesville, 19 

 October (H. L. V.); Canterbury, Plainfield, 14 August (B. 

 H. W.). 



Hesperotettix Scudder. 



Size small, sides subparallel, but little compressed. Head 

 small, vertex between the eyes very narrow with a slight central 

 groove or depression. Face but little oblique, frontal costa 

 narrow and sulcate throughout. Antennae slightly (female) to 

 considerably (male) longer than the head and the pronotum 

 together. Pronotum long and rather narrow, the prozona about 

 one and one-half times the length of the metazona. The sides of 

 the disk sloping or rounded forming an angle with the lateral 

 lobes. Median carina low, cut by single sulcus. Hind margin 

 broadly rounded or very obtusely angled. Tegmina (in our 

 species) much shorter than the abdomen. Fore and middle femora 

 of male swollen, the hind femora extending much beyond the tip 

 of the abdomen. Sub-genital plate of male with a more or less 

 distinct tubercle near the apex. 



H. brevipennis Thomas. 



This is one of the most delicately colored of our locusts. 

 General color a pale green. The pronotum with a conspicuous 

 rnid-dorsal purplish stripe which is often present on the head. 

 The dorsal surface of the closed tegmina usually largely purple. 

 Antennae pinkish. Pronotum with a black bar on the upper 

 third of the lateral lobes. Fore and middle femora and the upper 

 face of the hind femora reddish. Outer face of the hind femora 

 with more or less dark. Hind tibiae pale green to bluish green ; 

 spines tipped with black. Tegmina not reaching tip of abdomen 

 in either sex. 



Measurements. 



Body Antennae Tegmina Hind Femora 



Female 20-24 6.3 -7.2 9.7-11.7 11.8-12.7 



Male 15-17 7.25-8.5 7.6-10 9.5-10.5 



This species has not yet been recorded from Connecticut, but 

 has been taken in Massachusetts at Wellesley and Walpole, in 

 New Jersey, and in Georgia. The season in which the adult 



