344 ORTHOPTERA OF NOVA SCOTIA. PIERS. 



T\-inged form, with the hind-Tving.s corusiderably shorter than -ning-covers, 

 ha.s been met with in this pro'V'ince; and it is generally the variety with decidedly 

 shorter wing-covers, covering on an average only about 2/3rds of the female 

 abdomen, which I take to be the variant termed negledus by Scudder. I 

 have noted only two females (a and f) -n-ith wing-covers verj" slightlj^ exceed- 

 ing 3/4ths of abdomen, and these may show a tendency towards a passage 

 to the ordinary .short-winged pennsylvardcus in which the -n-ing-covers of the 

 female reach nearly to the tip of abdomen. Hind femm- stout, averaging 

 10.3 mm. in length, and 3.3 mm. in greatest width; its length contained in length 

 of o\apositor from 1.17 to 1.47 times, averaging 1.32 times. The hind tibia 

 usually has 6 pairs of stout spines and a few additional spines at the extremity. 

 The o\'ipositor ranges from .57 to .95 times length of body, and avergCges .72; 

 in no specimens does it exceed the bodj- length. The actual length of ovi- 

 positor varies from 12.2 mm. to 15.2. mm., the average being 13.69 mm. 



Colour of Nova Scotian specimens. — From my notes I transcribe the fol- 

 lowing colour descriptions of seven females and one male which are fairly 

 t}"pical of our form. The measurements of each specimen will be found in 

 the general table of measurements on pages 345 and 346 — Tuo females (e 

 and/j taken on roadside at Halifax, 5th and 7th Sept., 1S97. General colour 

 black, -with fine grajdsh pubescence on pronotum, femora and some other 

 parts; head shining black; antennse black; wing-covers shining black with 

 a light -coloured hne on lateral ridge where they bend downward onto sides; 

 light-coloured veins on lateral part (costal area or portion bent downj of wing- 

 covers; ovipositor brownish. This description was noted immediatly after 

 the .STDecimens were taken. My notes make no mention of any reddLsh tint 

 on the femora, and therefore most likely they were unicolorous. (Size 

 small; body, 18.5 and 18.2 mm.J — Four females (a, h, c, and d), taken on 

 King's Meadow, Windsor, Hants Co., Sept., 1892. and determined in 1895 

 as G. pennsylvardcus negledus by W. Beutenmuller, furnish the following 

 colour-description on re-examination after being in alcohol for many years: 

 Upper parts black, under parts with a brownish tinge; a shght grayish pubes- 

 cence on some of upper parts, but not at all general; dorsal and median areas 

 of wing-covers rather pale sepia-colour or dark broccoU-brown, with dark 

 sepia veins or ner^^es (darker than the ground-colour j ; costal area of wing- 

 covers, or portion turned downward, dark sepia with broccoli-brown veins 

 (lighter than ground-colour j ; a paler, buffy, narrow line on humeral angle 

 or lateral ridge of wing-covers; femora black or dark brownish-black, .some- 

 times slightly paler on proximal fifth of inner face; tibia; brownish-black; 

 ovipositor brown-black; antennae black near head, becoming brown anteriorly. 

 These four specimens have no doubt faded somewhat in the preservative fluid. 

 (Size very small to small, 14.75 to 17.30 mm.) — One female (g), taken on 

 road at Kentville, Kings Co., 13th Oct., 1915. Shining black, no pubescence 

 anywhere; wing-covers pale clay-colour with liver-brown veins, the light colour 

 being most noticeable as a very obscure stripe on lateral ridge and extending 

 backward until lost; femora with a chestnut or hazel-coloured area on both 

 outer and inner faces, on basal lower two-fifths, and gradually passing into 

 the adjacent blackLsh colour of remainder of limb. (Size small, 19.0 mm.)— 

 One male is) taken beneath a stone on roadside, Halifax, 7th Sept., 1897, in 

 company with one of the before-mentioned females (/), was coloured just as 

 was that female, except that there was apparently no light-coloured line 

 on the lateral ridge of wing-covers and no light-coloured veins on their costal 

 area. Structurally, of course, it showed the differences which are seen in 

 the sexes of field crickets, the male being proportionately much narrower in 

 the body, and the raised veins on wing-covers being differently disposed. (Size 

 very small; body, 15 mm.) 



