178 ORTHOPTERA. 



4. Locusta Maritima? 3 Maritime Locust. 



Ash-gray ; face variegated with white ; wing-covers sprin- 

 kled with minute brownish spots, and semi-transparent at tip; 

 wings transparent, faintly tinted with yellow next the body, 

 uncolored at tip, with a series of irregular blackish spots 

 forming a curved band across the middle ; hindmost shanks 

 and feet pale yellow, with the extreme points of the spines 

 black. Length £ to l£ inch ; exp. 1 T V inch to 2| inches. 



This species comes very near to Mr. Kirby's description 

 of the Locusta leucostoma ; but is evidently distinct from it, 

 and does not appear to have been described before. I have 

 received it from Sandwich, and have found it in great abun- 

 dance among the coarse grass which grows near the edges 

 of our sandy beaches, but have never seen it except in the 

 immediate vicinity of the sea. It comes to maturity and lays 

 its eggs about the middle of August or a little later. 



5. Locusta cequalis. 1 * Barren-ground Locust. 



Ash-gray, mottled with dusky brown and white; wing- 

 covers semi-transparent at tip, with numerous dusky spots 

 which run together so as to form three transverse bands ; 

 wings light yellow on their basal half, transparent with 

 dusky veins and a few spots at the tip, with an intermediate 

 broad black band, which, curving and becoming narrower 

 on the hind margin, is continued to the inner angle of the 

 wing ; hindmost shanks coral-red, with a broad white ring 

 below the knees, and the spines tipped with black. Length 

 1£ inch ; exp. 2J inches. 



Mr. Say, to whom I sent a specimen of this handsome 

 locust, informed me that it was his Qryllus equcdis, probably 

 intended for cequalis. It is found, during the months of July 



[ 18 L. maritima must be referred to (Edipoda. — Uhler.] 



[ 1* L. aqualis and latipennis are merely to be separated as races of one species, 

 and cannot remain as separate species. They must be referred to the genus 

 (Edipoda. — Uiiler.] 



