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flights, sounding its cymbals \vliili' in the air, at every turn" 
(Blatchley). A(hilts begin to api)c:ir early in May, are connnon 
in June and July, and are occasionally seen as late as early Sep- 
tember. It is probably found throughout New England, at least 
in all but the extreme boreal parts, having been taken at Norway 
and Doering, Me.; Berlin Falls and Hanover, N. H.; Brattle- 
boro, Vt.; Wellesley, Winchendon, Woods Hole, and Martha's 
Vineyard, Mass.; and in all quarters of Connecticut. 
Green-striped Locust. 
Chortophaga viridifasciata (DeGeer). 
Plate 12, figs. 3, 4; Plate 21, figs. 4, 5. 
Acrydiuvi viridijasciatuvi DeGeer, Mdm. des Ins., vol. 3, p. 498, pi. 42, fig, 
6 (1773). 
Locusta (Tragocephala) viridifasciata H.\rri.s, Treatise, 3d ed., p. 181 (1862). 
Locusta (Tragocephala) infuscata Harris, ibid., p. 182. 
Locusta (Tragocephala) radiata Harris, ibid., p. 183. 
Tragocephala infuscata Scudder, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, p. 461 
(1862). 
Tragocephala viridifasciata Scudder, ibid. — Smith, Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. 
Hist., vol. 1, p. 148 (1868); Rept. Ct. Bd. Agric. for 1872, p. 374 (1873). 
Chortophaga viridifasciata Fernald, Orth. N. E., p. 40 (1888). — Morse, 
Psyche, vol. 7, p. 65 (1897).— Walden, Bull. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., 
no. 16, p. 90 (1911). 
Body compressed. Head narrow; face strongly retreating, 
subangulate at vertex. Scutellum of vertex narrow, shallow, 
without carinae. 
Pronotum rather smooth, shghtly rugose on prozone which is 
tectiform; metazone flat above; lateral carinae indistinct except 
near principal sulcus; median carina sharp, continuous, evenly 
compressed, incised but not notched by principal sulcus well in 
front of center. Front margin angulate, hind margin produced, 
acute-angulate, the apex well rounded. 
Tegmina rather narrow, the intercalary vein sinuous, near ulnar 
at base, approaching radial distally. Wings rather narrow, 
transparent, faintly clouded with yellowish at base and with 
dusky on apical half, sometimes more deeply clouded with fuscous 
in front of middle of posterior margin, and frequently heavily 
infuscated along the veins and with an elongate fuscous spot on 
the third quarter of the costal margin, especially in the male. 
