278 ORTHOPTERA OF NOV^^ SCOTIA. — PIERS. 



which however he does not state. There is the possibility 

 that Jones may have sent Scudder such a specimen, but it 

 may not have actually been taken in this province. The 

 Mr. Jones whose name is attached to the record, was, without 

 anj' doubt, the late J. Matthew Jones, a well known Nova 

 Scotian naturalist and president of the N. S. Institute of 

 Science, with whom Scudder was in communication about 

 1876, and for whom he named the species of Orthoptera 

 listed in Jones's "Visitor's Guide to Bermuda," Lond., 1876. 

 Jones resided at Halifax and died there in 1888. 



If it does occur here, as is not impossible from its known 

 range, it must at least be rare and local, as it is a large, dis- 

 tinctively coloured and very conspicuous insect, particularly 

 when in flight, and yet it has not been observed by either 

 C. B. Gooderham or E. C. Allen in the western and southern 

 sections of the province, or by myself about Halifax, and 

 Mr. Long also did not find it in Prince Edward Island. 

 Its occurrence here very greatly needs a new record for its 

 verification before it can be accepted with confidence. Per- 

 sonally I am very strongh^ of the opinion that some mistake 

 was made by Scudder in his record.* 



The species is found throughout New England, but 

 is there never very common and apparently is less abundant 

 in the northern part of that region. It is usually found in 

 dry, bush}^ pastures; and the male in flight produces a loud 

 rattling note. In Ontario it is local in distribution, but 

 where it does occur it forms colonies of considerable size. 



12. Dissosteira Carolina (Linnjpus). Carolina Locust; 

 Black-winged Locust. 

 (Edipoda Carolina. F. Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. 

 Mus., iv, 729 (1870); Nova Scotia, etc.— Do., 

 Can. Ent., iv, 31 (1872); Nova Scotia, etc. 



♦The species might be e-xpecled to occur in Bermuda, where J. M. Jones h;ul resided for 

 some years before comini; to Halifax, but it is not mentioned in th.at gentleman's list of Bermuda 

 Orthoptera given on page 144 of bis "Visitor's Guide." 



