436 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
loamy soils, abundantly inland and sometimes in company with 0. 
pelidna near the coast. It travels chiefly by leaping but readily 
takes wing on occasion, flying, however, but a few feet. Alert 
and active in the hot midsummer sunshine, it can often be 
captured in favorable places literally by hundreds with a few 
rapid strokes of the sweeping-net. 
Adults begin to appear in the first week in July, are abundant 
in August and the first half of September, and become scarce 
in October. It is found in all of the New England States but is 
plentiful only in the southern half of the district. Some of the 
more northern records are : Grand Lake Stream, Orono, Norway, 
and Fryeburg, Me. ; North Conway, N. H. ; Woodstock and Mt. 
Ascutney, Vt. It is found on Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, 
and other islands off the south coast. Long- winged examples 
occur in all parts of its New England range but seem to be more 
common in the north. While very scarce at Wellesley, Mass., 
they are not uncommon at Norway, Me., and Adams, Mass., 
and have been taken on the summit of Speckled Mt., Oxford Co., 
Me., 2800 ft., and Mt. Greylock, Mass., 3500 ft. (Hebard). 
Spotted-winged Locust. 
Orphulella pelidna (Burmeister) . 
Plate 20, fig. 6-11. 
Gomphocerus pelidnus Burmeister, Handb. d. Ent., vol. 2, p. 650 (1838). 
Stenobothrus maculipennis Sctjdder, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, p. 458, 
in part (1862).— Fernald, Orth. N. E., p. 37 (1888). 
Orphula maculipennis Morse, Psyche, vol. 7, p. 408 (1896). 
Orphulella pelidna Walden, Bull. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 79 
(1911). 
Measurements. 
Total 
Tegmina 
Teg. pass 
Hind fern. 
Hind 
femora 
Antenna 
Male 
16.8-20.5 
12.5-16.5 
1-4.5 
8.5-9.8 
4.7-6.5 
Female . . . . 
19 -26 
13.5-20 
0.5-3 
10.5-12.5 
5.5-7 mm 
The Spotted-winged Locust is a beautiful little species, rela- 
tively constant in its specific characters, but varying extraor- 
dinarily in color. It is active and alert, leaping well and also 
flying freely and well, sometimes to a distance of two or three 
rods, its larger size and longer wings making it more conspic- 
