ORTHOPTERA OF NOVA SCOTIA. — PIERS. 2():^ 



Scotia. All that can be done at present, is to very doubtfully 

 refer Walker's record to the form now under consideration, 

 until ornatum can be verified as occuring here or Walker's 

 specimen has been re-examined. Mr. Gooderham has a 

 single Truro specimen which had been determined as the 

 long-pronotumed form of ornatum, but it has since been 

 identified as a defoimed specimen of A. grariulatum as stated 

 antler that species. 



Leaving nomenclatural questions to be a subject for 

 further investigation, we will now deal more particularly 

 with the occurrence of A. arenosum angustum, short-prono- 

 tuined form, in Nova Scotia. This broad-shouldered, robust 

 grouse-locust, with the pronotum extending to about the 

 end of the hind femur, has so far not been found by me near 

 Halifax. It is, however, common about Truro, Col. Co., 

 and is more or less so in suitable localities in other parts 

 of the western section of the province. There are three 

 specimens in the collection of the N. S. College of Agriculture, 

 and Mr. Gooderham has a number of others collected at 

 various dates from 18 June to 20 August, at Truro, and in 

 Hants, Kings, Annapolis and Yarmouth counties. He 

 reports it as very common about Truro, where it occurs 

 mostly along the banks of streams and in boggy places; 

 and as it hibernates like other species of the genus, it should 

 be about from early spring, probably the middle of April, 

 until autumn, although the earliest and latest dates so far 

 actually noted are, as we have said, the middle of June 

 and the latter part of August.* 



Subfamily Acridinae (Oblique-faced Spineless Locusts) f 

 {Tryxalmce of former writers.) 

 Size rather large; pronotum never extending back over 

 abdomen; no spine or tubercle on prosternum between front 



♦Besides the possibility of Acrydium ornatum of Sav occurring here, more thorough 

 search may disclose the rar^ presence of Teltiqidrxi, parvipennis (Harris), which occurs north 

 to Mass., Maine and Ont., bemg abundant in New England in moist, grassy and sedgy meadows. 

 It may be recognized by its 22-jointcd antenna and by the front femur being grooved alon;; 

 its upper margin. 



fSee footnote regarding the unfortunate similarity in the names of the subfamilies 

 Acrydiince and Acridinie, on page 253. 



