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First noticed at Norway, Aug. 27, 1863, flying in at the windows in the 

 evening. It has been noticed, sometimes in considerable numbers, every year 

 since, in company with N. vittatus, from the middle of August to the last of 

 September. Prof. Verrill has taken it at Treat's Island, near Eastport. 



Family, Looustidzi (Grasshoppers). 



Ceutkophilus maculatus Rcudd., 1. c, p. 434. The Spotted Wingless Cricket. 

 Raphidophora metadata Harr., Report, 1st edition, p. 126. Phalangopsis lapidi- 

 cola Burm., teste Erichson, Uhler in Harr., Eeport, p. 155, fig. 73. Ra- 

 phidophora lapidicola Scudd., Proceed. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. VIII, p. 7. 

 Common at Norway under old logs, stones, etc. ; also at Calais and Treat's 



Island, and at Grand Menan, N. B., which is the original locality of C. brivipes 



Scudd.; "Cape Elizabeth, (Morse J" Scudd. 



Phaneroptera curvicauda Serv., Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Tome XXII, 

 p. 159 ; Scudd., 1. c, p. 448. The Narrow-winged Green Grasshopper. 

 Locusta curvicauda De Geer, Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire des Insectes, 

 Tome III, p. 446, PI. 38, fig 3. Phaneroptera angustifolia Harr., Report, p. 

 160, fig. 76. 

 Norway : Common; " Maine, (Packard)," Scudd. 



Conocephalus ensiger Harr., Report, p. 163, fig. 79; Scudd., 1. c, p. 449. The 



Cone-headed Grasshopper. 



Norway : quite common upon a species of Andropogon, late July to Septem- 

 ber. One female was taken with the ovipositor forced down between the root- 

 leaves and the stalk of the Andropogon, where the eggs are probably deposited. 



Xiphidium fasciatum Serv., Ann. de Sci. Nat., Tome XXII, p. 159 ; Scudd., 

 1. c, p. 451. The Slender Meadow Grasshopper. 



Locusta faseiata De Geer, Mem. Insect., Tome III, PI. 40, fig. 4. Orchelimum 

 gracile Harr., Report, p. 163, fig. 78. 



Norway: common, July, August; "Maine, (Packard)," Scudd.; "Cham- 

 berlain Farm," on the Penobscot, Packard. 



Xiphidium brevipennis Scudd., 1. c, p. 451. The Short- winged Meadow-grass- 

 hopper. 

 Norway, Eastport ; abundant; "Maine, (Packard)," Scudd. 



Orchelimum vidgare Harr., Report, p. 162, fig. 77; Scudd., 1. c, p. 452. The 

 Common Meadow-grasshopper. 

 Norway : common, late July, August, September. 



Family, Acrydid^ (Locusts and Grasshoppers.) 



Chloealtis conspersa Harr., Report, p. 184. The Sprinkled Locust. / 



Chloealtis abortiva Harr.', Report, p. 184. Chloealtis conspersa Scudd., V. c, Hy 

 p. 455. Stenobothrus melanopleurus Scudd., 1. c, p. 456. / 



Vertex of the head broad, expanded to a blunt point on either side in front 

 of the eyes, from which the sides slope so as to form a little less than a right 

 angle at the apex, which is blunt and rounded, with a very slight median ridge, 

 and the edges a little upturned ; frontal ridge with a shallow sulcation for 

 two-thirds its length ; eyes not large or prominent, slightly elongated ; antennae 

 slender, slightly flattened, reaching to the middle of the wing-covers in the 

 male, a little shorter in the female ; pronotum with the sides nearly straight, 

 or approaching one another slightly in the middle ; median carina sharp, rather 

 more distinct than the lateral, margin straight both in front and behind ; wing- 

 covers in the male reaching nearly to the extremity of the abdomen, obovate, 

 suddenly swollen on the costal border about two-thirds of the way from the 



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