ORTHOPTERA OF NOVA SCOTIA. — PIERS. 281 



usually does not fly far, but sometimes with a favouring breeze 

 I have known it to proceed for thirty yards. As it frequents 

 the roads and paths of man, it is familiar to all, although no 

 special name is applied to it here. Most people confuse it 

 with C. verruculatus, which some call the "Cracker," and 

 with which it congregates; but in flight the two may be very 

 readily distinguished, as Dlssosteira has a black hind-wing 

 bordered by yellow, whereas Circotettix has a yellow wing 

 with a dark median transverse band. D. Carolina is the 

 largest locust in Nova Scotia with the exception of some 

 females of Melanoplus bivittatus and Hippiscus apiculatus, 

 which latter has been very doubtfully reported from here. 



13. Circotettix verruculatus (Kirby). "Cracker" (local) ; 

 "Snapper" (local). 



(Edipoda rugosa (not of Scudder). F. Walker, Cat. 

 Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus., iv, 731 (1870); Nova Scotia, 

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



(Edipoda sulphurea (not of Fabricius). F. Walker, Cat. 

 Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus., iv, 729-730 (1870); Nova 

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

 Scotia, etc. 



Circotettix verruculatus. Piers, Trans. N. S. Inst. Sc, 

 ix, 214 (1896); Halifax and Ann. Co. — Gooderham, 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. N. S. for 1916, 26, 27 (1917); Col., 

 Kings, Hants, Yar. and Queens Cos. 



Description. — Pronotum flattened on top, right-angled to acute-angled 

 behind, its median carina elevated in front and notched by two sulci before 

 the middle, the front notch often less distinct than the hind one; wings and 

 wing-covers about as long as total length of body, the hind wings usually with 

 three radial veins greatly enlarged. 



Colour. — Nova Scotian specimens. Varies somewhat, but above usually 

 black or blackish, often more or less finely marbled with gray, particularly 

 about sides and front of head, and sides of pronotum. Underparts seal-brown 

 to walnut-browTi. Wing-covers graj'ish or browni.sh gray, blotched and sprink- 

 led with brownish black, the larger blotches on the basal half. Hind-wings 

 semitransparent; pale sulphur-yellov) on basal half, with a few of the radial 

 veins deeper in colour; this yellow area followed by a crescent-shaped siife- 

 ynedian band of blackish, with a triangular, blackish, sub-costal offshoot with 



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