324 ORTHOPTERA OF NOVA SCOTIA. PIERS. 



Group Xiphidiini. 

 23. Conocephalus fasciatus fasciatus (DeGeer). East- 

 ern Slender Meadow Grasshopper. 



XipMdium fasciatum. F. Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. 



Brit. Mus., ii, 270 (1869); Nova Scotia, etc.— Do., 



Can. Ent., iv, 30 (1872); Nova Scotia.— Piers, 



Trans. N. S. Inst. Sc, ix, 213 (1896); Halifax and 



Windsor, N. S. 



Description. — Very slender-bodied and delicately formed. Vertex of 

 head extends forward and slighitly upward as a rounded tubercle; antennae 

 long; face oblique; prosternal spines very short and weak; wing-covers narrow, 

 straight and extending much beyojid abdomen; wings a little longer than wing- 

 covers; ovipositor slender, straight, and about two-thirds length of hind 

 femur; hind legs long and slender; femur and tibia about equal in length. 



Colour. — Nova Scotian specimen, just come to maturity. General colour 

 a beautiful translucent, Ught apple-green, very finely sprinkled with liver- 

 brown, mostly on face and sides of head, pronotum, and legs; the spots on 

 the hind femora being mostly arranged in a few longitudinal fines. Antennae 

 drab ; eyes clove-brown. A dark brown dorsal stripe from vertex to extremity 

 of abdomen, this stripe narrow on head and expanding into a rather broad 

 band on pronotum and abdomen. Sides of abdomen dark brown. Wing- 

 covers from greenish white to yellowish white, with brownish red dash on 

 lateral basal part, this colour extending onto the veins. Hind femora apple- 

 green, their apical third fawn-colour; hind tibiae hght fawn-colour, the spines 

 tipped with black. Ovipositor green, its dorsal surface and tip fawn-coloured. 

 Measurements. — Male: body, 12-13.5 mm.; pronotum, 3-3.5 mm. 

 wing-covers, 14-18 mm.; hind femora, 11.5 mm. Female: body, 12-14.5 

 mm.; pronotum, 3 mm.; wing-covers, 15-19 mm.; hind femora, 11.5-13 mm.; 

 ovipositor, 7-9 mm. 



Range. — United States and southeastern Canada, from Rocky Mtns. 

 to Atlantic and south to South America: from Nova Scotia, P. E. Island, 

 New Brunswick, Montreal (Que.), Ont., and I\Ian., south toFla. and Mexico, 

 and west to Col. and Mont. The range of this geographic race is therefore 

 extensive, its present known northern limit being apparently in the Canadian 

 Zone. It is generally a very common form. 



Occurrence in Nova Scotia.— This pretty, very fragile 

 little insect, the smallest of our Tettigoniidce, was first reported 

 from Nova Scotia by F. Walker in 1869. It is very common 

 throughout the province, at least in those parts which have 

 come under the eye of the collecter, as about Halifax, Truro, 

 Windsor, Kentville, Church Street (Kings Co.), near Yar- 

 mouth and Deerfield (Yar. Co.), etc. It frequents damp 

 situations, such as wet meadows and marshes, and is found 

 among moist thick patches of succulent and rank-growing 



