MORSE: ORTHOPTERA OF NEW ENGLAND. 4G5 
riorly and sometimes covering almost the entire dorsal field. 
Antennae short and slender, about equal to head and pronotum 
in female, a little longer in male. 
This species was recorded by Smith /rom Norway, Me., and by 
Scudder from eastern Alassachiisetts many years ago. No addi- 
tional records have been secured and nothing further is known 
regarding its occurrence in New England. If there was no error 
in labeUng and the species was once found here, as is probable, a 
thorough survey should rediscover it, though it is possible that it 
may have become extinct in recent years in our territory. It is 
widely (Ustributed through the southern and central States and 
is usually numerous where it occurs. The sandy coast-plain of 
southeastern Massachusetts and southwestern Maine very likely 
contains isolated colonies which have survived to the present day 
from a past age when a milder climate prevailed and the plain was 
continuous with that of New Jersey. During that period, 
numerous other species of plant and animal Hfe entered New 
England by the same route and became widely distributed 
therein. 
Judging from data secured in the southern States its life history 
differs decidedly from that of its relative, the Coral-wing, and 
agrees with that of the majority of the group. In Virginia and the 
South it matures in July and nymphs are numerous throughout 
that month. Search should be made for it in the month of 
August in old fields, wild land, and pastures on sandy soil. 
Carolina Locust; Black-winged Locust; "Quaker." 
Dissosteira Carolina (Linn^). 
Figs. 1-12, 14, 16, 17. 
Gryllus {Locusta) carolinus Linn6, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., vol. 1, p. 433 (1758). 
Locusta Carolina Harris, Treatise, 3d ed., p. 176 (1862). 
Oedipoda Carolina Scudder, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, p. 468 (1862). — 
Smith, Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, p. 150 (1868); Rept. Ct. Bd. 
Agric. for 1872, p. 371 (1873). 
Dissosteira Carolina Fern.vld, Orth. N. E., p. 43 (1888). — Morse, Psyche, 
vol. 7, p. 87 (1897).— Waldex, Bull. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, 
p. 96 (1911). 
Head compressed; face nearly vertical; facial costa broad, sides 
but little constricted, Scutellum of vertex shallow, broad, the 
