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partly red, used to be an ornament to the overgrown fields of the Island, but 

 it appears now to be extinct. The last one seen by the writer was a male at 

 Dongan Hills, May, 1909. It passed the winter as a nymph and matured 

 in the spring. A few survived until Jl. On May 27, 1900, a female was 

 found laying eggs. LI: Queens, May, Schott; Jamaica, May; Pinelawn, Je; 

 West Hills, Ap 17, 1915, an early date; Half Way Hollow Hills, May; 

 W^andanch, May, Schott; Nissequogue, Je ; Baldwin, May; Bellport, Je, 

 Nic; Coram; Wading R., May-Je ; Yaphank, Je. 



DISSOSTEIRA Scudder 



D. Carolina L. This species is not only found over the entire State of NY, but 

 occurs over the greater part of the U.S. Some of the more northern and 

 western state records are : Debruce, Sep ; Callicoon, Jl ; Oliverea, Sep ; Keene 

 Val., Aug-Sep, Not ; Elmira, Je, Aug, Diven ; Ithaca, Jl ; Batavia, Jl-Aug, 

 Kngt; Buffalo, Jl. SI: Generally distributed. Mature individuals found from 

 Je-Nov. The males are the first to mature ; some of the records are Je 20, 

 1885, Je 28, 1887, and Je 25, 1921. A male was found attracted by light Jl 9, 

 1912, and two Jl 16, 1912. They are often found dead on low bushes, etc., 

 having been killed by the fungus Empusa. This is the " hovering grasshopcer," 

 the males sometimes poising in mid-air a few feet from the ground. Their 

 hovering, however, is not sustained as in certain Diptera. LI: Generally 

 distributed all over the island from Brooklyn to Orient, Montauk, and Gardi- 

 ners I. Occurs in numbers even on the seashore, and in the Bulletin of the 

 Brooklyn Ent. Soc, Ap, 1913, there is an account of "A Plague of Carolina 

 Grasshoppers at Long Beach, L. I., in 1912." It is sometimes drowned in the 

 ocean and washed ashore on Rockaway Beach. 



SphARAGEMON Scudder 



S. bolli Scud. Van Cort. Pk., Aug ; Callicoon, Jl ; Debruce, Sep ; Ellenville ; E. 

 Jewett, Aug; Ithaca, Jl-Aug (CU) ; McLean, Aug-Sep, Sib; Batavia, Jl, Kngt. 

 SI: This woodland species is found from Je-Oct and is generally distributed. 

 It crackles its wings in flight. A male was found attracted to light, Jl 16, 

 1912. LI: Aqueduct, Jl ; Central Pk., Jl-Sep; Pinelawn, Aug-Sep; West 

 Hills, Sep; Selden, Aug-Sep; Coram, Aug-Sep; Smithtown, Aug; Wading 

 R., Aug; Southold, Sep; Yaphank, Jl-Sep; Bay Shore, Jl, Oh; Bellport, 

 Aug (Nic); Patchogue, Sep; Riverhead, Aug; Calverton, Sep; Amagansett, 

 Sep ; Montauk, Aug. 



S. saxatile Morse. Ramapo, Sep ; W. Nyack, Aug ; Ft. Montgomery, Jl ; West Pt., 

 Sep. Found on rocky areas, sometimes of small extent. 



S. coUare wyomingianum Thomas. SI: At one time well distributed on the sandy 

 areas of the island from Richmond Valley to Mariners Harbor, but now much 

 more restricted. It is an insect of overgrown sandy fields and open sandy 

 woodland. It has been found plentiful at Richmond Valley in Sep, and near 

 Western Ave., Mariners Harbor, in Aug, also Oct 9, Oct 15, and Nov 6. Other 

 localities are Long Neck, Sandy Br., Woodrow, Bogardus Corners, Kreischer- 

 ville, and Tottenville. 



Professor Morse states that typical examples of wyomingiamim occur on 

 SI. It has not been found on LI. 



S. coUare scudderi Morse. LI: Central Pk., Jl-Sep, both to the north and to the 

 south of the railroad track, and also on the. undisturbed parts of Hempstead 

 Plains ; Montauk, on the grassy hills, also near Fresh Pond, Aug 26 and 27, 

 1917 (Eng, Ds) ; Gardiners I., very common on the grassy hills near the 

 monument reading " Capt. Kidd's Treasure was buried in this hollow and 



