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bers of half finished holes or those just begun, and comparatively very few 

 that were completed, and I have often found upon the underside of boards great 

 numbers of the holes just begun, none of them being more than an eighth of 

 an inch in depth. Perhaps the reason for so few holes being finished, is that 

 the wood proves too hard and the insect tries for a softer place, or many of 

 them may be disturbed during the operation. When they had opened the 

 hole only to a slight depth, they leaped away if disturbed, but when the abdo- 

 men was quite a distance into the nearly completed hole, they'seldom attempt- 

 ed to withdraw it even after the hand was upon them. 



I first noticed the female at Norway in 18G4 and '65, depositing her eggs, 

 but did not find the male. While arranging the New England Orthoptera, I 

 found in a bottle of StenobotliKte received from Mr. Sanborn of Boston, several 

 specimens of S. melanopleuyls Scudd., and from its strong resemblance to the 

 species of CMoealtis, and its wanting the foveolas of the vertex, I labeled it 

 ^t- CMoealtis melanopleurys'. Afterward, in September, 1866, while collecting C. 

 conspersa, I was very much surprised to find it several times paired with S. 

 melanopleurus, thus proving its identity with that species. It does not seem 

 to be a very common species, although I took it quite abundantly about old 

 logs in a meadow, August 25 and September 7, 1866. I have frequently 

 noticed in dry sandy fields, wood bored apparently by this insect. 



Stenobothrus curtipennis Scud'd., 1. c, p. 456. The Short-winged Locust. 



Stenobotkrus longipennis Scudd., 1. c, p. 457. 



CMoealtis curtipennis Harr., Report, p. 184, PL 3, fig. 1. 



After examining a great number of specimens, I see no constant characters 

 by which *S. longipennis can be distinguished from S curtipennis. In the length 

 of the wing-covers and wings, there is a complete series from one to the 

 other, as the accompanying measurements show ; and they certainly pair with- 

 out any reference to the length of the wing-covers. In coloration, scarcely 

 two specimens can be found alike ; in fact, this and the following species show 

 as great variation in this respect as the species of Tettix. There is some varia- 

 tion also in the character of the vertex and in the direction of the lateral 

 carinas of the pronotum. All the varieties are very distinct from the next 

 species, in the immaculate wing-covers, the size, the length of the hind femora 

 and the antennas, and in the form of the foveolas of the vertex, which are 

 long, rectangular and deep, instead of shallow and more or less triangular. 



Measurements (in inches). 



No. 



Sex. 



Length 

 of Body. 



Antennse. 



Hind 



Femora. 



Wing- 

 covers. 



Locality. 



497 



Male. 



.64 



.35 



.44 



.62 



Norway, Me. 



498 



" 



.65 



.35 



.44 



.59 



" " 



499 



a 



.60 



.34 



.44 



.53 



tt a 



501 



" 



.61 



.36 



.44 



.48 



tt tt 



500 



" 



.58 



.36 



.42 



.45 



it a 



502 



it 



.60 



.35 



.43 



.43 



" " 



503 



tt 



.56 



.37 



.42 



.39 



Grand Menan,N.B. 



504 



Pemale. 



.75 



.28 



.50 



.66 



Norway, Me. 



505 



a 



.76 



.29 



.50 



.65 



it it 



506 



a 



.75 



.27 



.47 



.60 



it it 



507 



" 



.80 



.28 



.49 



.59 



tt tt 



508 



" 



.84 



.27 



.50 



.52 



tt it 



509 



" 



.74 



.29 



.49 



.42 



it tt 



511 



" 



.75* 



.29 



.49 



.42 



a tt 



512 



a . 



.75 



.28 



.49 



.40 



Eastport, Me. 



513 



" 



.75 





.48 



.36 



tt a 



i 



