368 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
This species closely resembles C. brevipennis in appearance and 
size, differing from it especially in the curved ovipositor of the 
female and the structure of the male cerci, but also in the typically 
wider tympanal area and the crowded position of the teeth on the 
inner half of the stridulating ridge of the male tegmina. 
This little brightly colored Grasshopper has been captured only 
on salt-marshes and in their immediate vicinity. Fox, the first 
to distinguish it, reported it to be "abundant on the short 
Spartina" grass "covering the tidal flats. Less frequently it 
was found on the black-grass, Juncus gerardi, one of the char- 
acteristic plants of the lowlands bordering the marshes on the 
upper side. Only rarel}^ does it appear to stray inland and then 
only to that part immediately adjoining the salt-marsh." 
It is a sluggish species, usually common where found, and the 
vivid and strongly contrasting hues of the typical color variety 
enable it to be readily recognized. Nothing is known relative to 
its stridulation ; the apparatus is said to differ sHghtly from that 
of C. brevipennis but it is doubtful whether human ears would be 
able to discriminate between the two. 
It was described originally from Woods Hole, Mass., and 
southern New Jersey. Numerous specimens from Cape Cod are 
in the Scudder collection. I have taken it at Niantic and Stam- 
ford, Ct.; Faneuil Station, Mass., before the creation of the 
Charles River Basin and the change of that portion of the river 
from brackish to fresh water; Rowley, Mass.; Brave Boat 
Harbor and York Beach, York, Me.; and Pine Point near Old 
Orchard, Me. It has an extensive distribution along the south- 
ern seaboard, reaching Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana, where 
long-winged examples are not uncommon. Dates of New Eng- 
land captures range from July 22 to September 20. 
Wingless Prairie-grasshopper. 
Conocephalus saltans (Scudder). 
Fig. 57; Plate 15, fig. 38. 
Xiphidium saltans Scudder, Rept. U. S. Geol. Surv. Nebraska, p. 249 (1871). 
— Blatchley, 27th Ann. Rept. Dept. Geol. Nat. Resources Ind., p. 377 
(1903). 
Tegmina of the male covering only one-half or two-thirds of 
the abdomen ; of the female distinctly shorter than the pronotum. 
