MORSE: ORTHOPTERA OF NEW ENGLAND. 447 
This is one of the rare Locusts of our fauna. I have seen only 
about a score of specimens and of tho.^o the majority were taken 
from one spot in a sedgy swamp in Tliomp.son, C't., on the 4th 
and 25th of August. A. L. Babcock of Sherborn, Mass., who 
gathered a general collection of insects in the latter half of the 
last century, captured three specimens in that vicinity in his 
early collecting. "These are the only localities known to me 
though it will probably be found to occur over a wide area. At 
Thompson it is found in company with lincatus and is impossible 
to distinguish when flying, though its flight is somewhat less 
sustained and it is decidedly more difficult to flush. It is a less 
shy and active species than Uneatus, and the female, while per- 
fectly able to fly, is very sluggish, — the single one taken person- 
alh'' was secured while endeavoring to start specimens up out 
of the long sedge of a swamp, and being seen perched upon the 
grass was at once swept into the net." I can add nothing to these 
notes, written several years ago. It still remains a rarity, to be 
secured only by good fortune or the most persistent search. 
ExtraHmital records are from Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota, 
from the last in dense tamarack swamps. 
THE BAND-WINGED LOCUSTS— OEDIPODINAE. 
In the Band-winged Locusts the vertex of the head slopes 
downward anteriorly, and is rounded at its junction with the face, 
which is relatively vertical, contrasting in these particulars with 
the Acridinae. The eyes are small, the antennae filiform, and 
the prosternum unspined. The pronotum is often constricted 
at or in front of the principal sulcus, usually rugose or tuber- 
eulate, with strongly pronounced, often crest-like median carina, 
cut by one or two incisions in front of the middle, rarely entire; 
the lateral carinae are poorly developed, usually discontinuous. 
The metazone is longer and broader than the prozone, its hind 
margin produced, angulate. The tegniina and wings are always 
fully developed, large; the wings usually present a bright- 
colored disk bounded by a dark transverse band and a trans- 
parent, maculate, or dusky tip. The tegmina are usually densely 
reticulate except toward the tip, with a well-developed inter- 
calary vein which is usually roughened for stridulating, at least 
in the male. 
