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Chortophaga viridifasciata (De Geer). 



The Green-striped Locicst. 



(Ord. Orthopteea: Fara. Acridid.e.) 



Additional to Bibliography given in Second Report, Insects of New York r 



Tragocephala viridifasciata. Riley: in 1st Rept. U. S. Ent. Commis., 1878, 



p. 256 (quotes from 8tli Rept. Ins. Mo.); in Cassino's Stand. Nat. Hist., 



1884, p. 203, fig. 285 (range). 

 Chimarocepliala viridifasciata. Scudder: Entomolog. Notes, vi, 1878, p. 30 



(collections in Florida). 

 Chimarocephala viridifasciata. Lintner : 2d Rept. Ins. N. Y., 1885, pp. 



187-198, fig. 54; in Count. Gent., Ivii, 1892, p. 286 (at Canaan Four 



Corners). 

 Chortophaga viridifasciata. Fernald : Ortliop. New Engl., 1888, p. 40^ 



fig. 15 (the two forms). 

 Chortophaga viridifasciata. Comstock : Introduc. Entomol. , 1888, p. 98 



(stridulation), p. 104 (varieties). 

 Tragocephala viridifasciata. Weed : in 15th Rept. Ins. 111., 1889, p. 42 



(early appearance in Illinois). 

 Chortophaga viridifasciata. McNeil : in Psyche, vi, 1891, p. 62 (habits, etc.). 

 Chortophaga viridifasciata. Blatchley : in Canad. Ent., xxiii, 1891, p. 76 



(habits). 



Young individuals of this locust (commonly called grasshoppers) 

 were received from Canaan Four Corners, Columbia county, N. Y., 

 where they had excited surprise and alarm by their having been seen 

 in large numbers, on March 30th, hopping about on the snow and else- 

 where in pastures and meadows having a warm southerly exposure. 



Identification of the Species. 

 A notice of this occurrence was published in the Country Gentleman 

 of April 14th, 1892, in which they were recognized as the j^oung of "the 

 green-striped locust," which had been described by Dr. Harris in his 

 "Insects of New England" as Locusta {Tragocephala) viridifasciata. 

 In my Second Report {loc. cit.) an account is given of this insect under 

 the generic name of Chimarocephala — a name proposed by Mr. 

 Scudder, in 1876 (meaning in the Greek, goat-headed) to replace the 

 preoccupied one of Tragocephala. It has since been referred to the 

 genus Chortophaga by Saussure, and this designation appears to have 

 been accepted b}'- our later scientific writers. It hardly seems worth the 

 while, however, to attempt to follow the frequent generic alterations 

 to which man}^ of our insects are subjected. 



Its Frequent Winter Appearance. 

 This particular species of locust seems, in its young stage, to respond 

 more quickly to the infiuence of warmth in emerging from its winter 

 retreat than any other of the species which, like it, hibernate in their 

 larval stage, as Arphia sulphurea (Fabr.), Illppiscus tuberculatus Pal. 

 de Beauv, species of Tetfir, et cet. Its proneness to premature appear- 



