MORSE: ORTHOPTERA OF NEW ENGLAND. 4:^7 
uous in flight but also enabling it to escape more readily than 
0. speciosa. 
It is widely distributed over southeastern New England, 
frequenting soils of sand or sandy loam, especially in Connecticut, 
Rhode Island, and southeastern Massachusetts. Adults begin 
to appear about the middle of July, being a week or two later 
than 0. speciosa, and they may be found during the remainder of 
the season. 
This species should be sought for in suitable locaUties in the 
Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, and in southern Maine 
and New Hampshire. Its present known northern limit is 
Essex County, Mass. It is rare at Wellesley, Mass., but common 
in northeastern Connecticut. 
Salt-marsh Locust. 
Orphulella olivacea (Morse). 
Plate 20, figs. 16, 17. 
Stenobothrus olivaceus Morse, Psyche, vol. 6, p. 477 (1893). 
Orphula olivacea Morse, Psyche, vol. 7, p. 411 (1896). 
Orphulella olivacea Walden, Bull. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 81 
(1911). 
Measurements. 
Total Body Tegmina Hind femora Antenna 
Male 19 -20.7 16.5-18.7 14-15 10 -10.5 6-7 
Female 23.5-28 21 -25 17-21 12.5-14 6 mm. 
This is the largest of our three species of Orphulella, but is 
much less Ukely to be met with owing to the fact that it is a 
halophile, in other words, a salt-lover, and lives only in the salt- 
marshes of the coast, where it is found from the southern shore 
of New England southward along a great extent of the seaboard 
of the South Atlantic and Gulf States. 
It was first discovered at Stamford and Greenwich, Ct., and 
Walden has since recorded it from New Haven and Stratford in 
that State. In New England it is very local, often restricted to 
an area of but a few square rods, but sometimes exceedingly 
abundant in that place. The coloring of the living Locust, 
whether greenish or brownish, exactly matches the olivaceous 
tones of the tangled marsh vegetation. Beneath the stratum of 
plant life, which furnishes food, shelter, and support for the 
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