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to the inner margin. Its inner boundary forms an olituse angle, while 

 its emarginate outer edge encroaches deeply upon the narrow fulvous 

 band where it is crossed by the two branches of the cubitus vein. The 

 basal area is of the typical fulvous ground color, which also extends 

 narrowly along the inner margin of the wing to join the fulvous sub- 

 marginal band. The center of the discal cell is marked by the two 

 usual spots. The costa is concolorous with the broad marginal band. 

 Secondaries are of a rich ferruginous color shading into well defined 

 greyish lilac along the costal and outer margins and on the tail. The 

 fulvous basal area and submarginal band of the primaries are continued 

 faintly on the secondaries. The dark color between these bars gives 

 the wings a general appearance of being crossed by a single dark band 

 on a slightly lighter field. 



Under Side — The pattern and colors are essentially normal except in 

 a few minor respects. Primaries have the contrast between light and 

 dark areas less marked than normally, and the entire pattern is some- 

 what dulled. The usual dark band along the posterior two-thirds of 

 the outer margin is widened, and the greenish metallic crescents along 

 the inner liorder of this band are enlarged. Secondaries show much 

 less contrast between light and dark areas than do the primaries, but 

 more than do the normal secondaries. The greenish crescents, tho 

 indistinct, are present, and are spaced from the margin to correspond 

 with those in the primaries. The aljnormally heavy silver mark is 

 striking. Its vertical limb is 0.5 mm. wide, while its horizontal one 

 tapers from the same width to a point. Each limb is 1.7 mm. long. 



Type — Catalog No. 5500. Peabody Museum, Yale Univer- 

 sity. 



One female without data. The specimen was probably cap- 

 tured in Connecticut, for it was pinned with miscellaneous 

 material from that locality. 



"Seventeen Year Grasshoppers." 



It is predicted that we are to have the 17-year locusts this summer. 

 This brood of insects have been lying 15 or 20 feet under ground for 

 the past 17 years and now their long sleep is about to end, and when 

 Ihe spring is full on its way the air will resound with their music. 

 This insect is popularly supposed to be a locust, but it is not so. It 

 is a grasshopper, the same that riddled Kansas and other green spots 

 years ago. These interesting insects emerge from the ground at the 

 same moment, betake themselves to trees and ferns, raise their fami- 

 lies in a few weeks of aviation and song, then drop to earth, reoccupy 

 their old haunts and resume their slumber for another 17-year period. 

 While mingling with terrestrial scenes they eat up everything they 

 can lay their m.ouths to and at the same time enjoying a delightful 

 cabaret with their feasting. Of course these grasshoppers will wear 

 a big \V on their wings, which always means war. But this a new 

 age and the choir may not appear." — Xh'zvspal'cr. 



