MORSE: ORTHOPTERA OF NEW ENGLAND. 439 
femora long and rather slender, but powerful. Subgenital plate 
of male short, conical, blunt. (Ovipositor characteristic, very 
short, little exposed, with sharp tips and strong lateral teeth. 
Color: usually pale dead-leaf brown above, sometimes spotted 
with darker, sometimes dark brown flecked with fuscous. Lat- 
eral lobes of pronotum in male shining black, their upper posterior 
corner in female, and the sides of base of abdomen and inner 
side of hind femora dusky to black. Hind femora varying from 
nearly uniform brown to a conspicuously mottled pattern, with 
white spots at one-fifth and one-half their length from base, 
bounded indistinctly by fuscous. Hind tibiae red, paler at base, 
with black spines. Abdomen beneath often more or less 
strongly orange posteriorly. 
Measurements. 
Body Tegtnina Hind femora Antenna 
Ma e 15-19 7.7-12 10.7-13 10-11 
Female 20-28 7-10 11.6-lG 10-12 mm. 
Long-winged form. 
Total Tegmina Tegmina pass hind femora 
Long Wide 
Male 27 19.5 4.7 ' 2 
Female 28 20 4.8 3 mm. 
The Sprinkled Locust is readily recognized, none of our other 
species resembling it closely. The lack of foveolae on the vertex, 
the shining black sides of the pronotum of the male, and the 
peculiar form of o\dpositor of the female are distinguishing^ 
characters always available, even though the male differs so 
much from the female that it may readily be taken for a different 
species, a mistake which has been made by more than one 
entomologist. 
While not abundant, it is locally common in suitable situations, 
showing a preference for bushy pastures and the edges of wood- 
lands, particularly on dry soil, and wherever old stumps and 
fragments of decaying wood are accessible for its eggs. Its 
habits of o\'iposition have been observed on numerous occasions. 
The eggs are laid in the soft wood of fence-rails, stumps, logs, or 
scattered blocks, in holes excavated by the rasp-like ovipositor 
valves, w'hich are especially fitted for this purpose. The hole is 
about an eighth of an inch in diameter, usually at first nearly 
