MORSE: ORTHOPTEHA OF NEW ENOLAND. 3G1 
latter half of July and are found during the remainder of the 
season. 
It is responsible for a large share of the strident insect chorus 
heard in hot, sultry midsuninier days and nights, its song consist- 
ing of a series of sharp zips followed by a high-pitched zeeeeeee. 
It is generally distributed and locally coniinon in southern New 
England, occurring at least from Norridgewock and Brunswick, 
Me., southward and westward, inhabiting also Nantucket, 
Martha's Vineyard, and Block Island. Beyond our limits its 
range extends westward to Montreal, Minnesota, eastern Wyo- 
ming and Colorado, and southward to northern Georgia and 
northeastern Texas. 
Bruner's Meadow-grasshopper. 
Orchelimmn gladiator Bruner. 
Plate 15, fig. 23-26. 
Orchdimum gladiator Bruner, Can. Ent., vol. 23, p. 71 (1891). — Rehn and 
Hebard, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 41, p. 44 (1915). 
Orchelimum vulgare Scudder, in Hitchcock's Geol. N. H., vol. 1, p. 368, 
probably (1874); Appalachia, vol. 8, p. 317 (1898). 
This species closely resembles 0. vulgare in size, form, and color, 
the tegmina averaging longer with reference to the hind femora; 
it is, however, readily distinguished by a comparison of the pro- 
notum and ovipositor. Having been until recently confused 
with that species, its stridulation has doubtless been referred to 
0. vulgare and observations on its habits by persons acquainted 
with both species are needed. 
Measurements. 
Hind 
Total 
Body Tegmina 
femora 
Ovipositor Antenna 
Male 
21-26.5 
16-19 16-20 
11-14 
42-55 
Female 
22-30 
24-27 17-23 
11-13 
7-8 37-45 mm, 
It lives in tall grass and rank herbage, in the same environmental 
conditions as 0. vulgare and is probably found throughout New 
England, with the possible exception of southeastern Massachu- 
setts. It has been taken from July 10 to September 8 at Orono 
and Fryeburg, Me.; North Conway and Alstead, N. H.; Mont- 
gomery, Hyde Park, Stowe, and Woodstock, Vt.; Mt. Greylock 
