ORTHOPTERA OF NOVA SCOTIA. — PIEJRS. 277 



says it is met with in liis district wherever Melanoplus femur- 

 rubrum or atlanis is found. Its fl'ght is low and direct, and 

 usually silent, though it can also produce a slight rustling 

 sound when on the wing. 



11. Hippiscusapiculatus (Harris). Coral-winged Locust. 

 H. (uberculatus of former writers.* 



H. tiiberculatus. Scudder, Psyche, vi, 303 (1892); Nova 

 Scotia, etc. 



Description. — Large and robust especially in female; head large, with 

 swollen cheeks; vertex considerably produced in front of eyes. Pronotum 

 slightly flattened apically, disk flat, more or less roughened and with numerous 

 blunt tubercles; median carina low but distinct and cut by principal sulcus; 

 lateral carinse extending somewhat beyond the principal sulcus and not cut 

 by it; hind margins of pronotum acute-angled (especially in female), prozona 

 (front dorsal part) much shorter than melazona {hind part). Wing-covers 

 extending considerably beyond abdomen, especially in male. Hind femora 

 very broad and flattened. 



Colour. — General colour ash-brown, darker above; pronotum with a 

 short longitudinal dark brown bar on its lateral lobes; wing-covers with fuscous 

 and black blotches, the humeral angle usually light brown; hind wings usually 

 bright coral-red (rarely yellow) at base, bordered outwardly by a curved 

 fuscous band, with another band of fuscous along the median part of front 

 or costal margin; outer face of hind femora with faint blackish bars, the 

 apical half of innet- face yeUow crossed by a narrow black band; hind tibiae 

 yellowish to browTiish. 



Measurements. — Male: body, 2.5-30 mm.; pronotum, 8 mm.; wing-covers, 

 25-30 mm.; hind femora, 15-17 mm. Female: body, 40-43 mm.; pronotum, 

 11 mm.; wing-covers, 30-35 mm.; hind femora, 20-23 mm. 



Range. — -North America east of the Rocky Mountains, rare southwardly; 

 reported from Nova Scotia (by Scudder only), Montreal (CauLfield, as (E. 

 phoenicoptera), Ont., Man., and Alberta, south to Fla., Missouri, Kans., and 

 Colo., and west to Mont, and Wyom. Probablj' occurs chiefly in the Upper 

 Austral, Transition and Canadian Zones. 



Occurrence in Nova Scotia. — Unfortunately the sole 

 record of the species' occurrence in this province, so far as I 

 know, is the late Dr. S. H. Scudder's inclusion of "Nova 

 Scotia (Jones)" in the list of localities where Hippiscus tiiber- 

 culatus had been taken, in his monograph on "The Orthopteran 

 Genus Hippiscus," in Psyche, vol. 6, p. 303, Cambridge, 1892. 

 I suppose we should not throw doubt upon that record* 

 particularly if Scudder had examined the specimen himself, 



*Rehn and Hebard (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc, Phila., 62, p. 030, 1910) point out the reason 

 for adopting Harris's name, as Palisot de Beauvois, in 1803, had misidentified his United 

 States material with Fabriciiis's ( ruUus tuberculatus, an Old World species belonging to another 

 genus. 



