MORSE: ORTHOPTERA OF NEW ENGLAND. 475 
The disk of the wings is exceedingly variable in color. In 
northern Now iMigland it is prevaihngly yellowish white, yellow, 
or even slightly orange. In southern Connecticut about half 
of the specimens captured have red wings, vermilion or sometimes 
pinkish. Farther west and south, beyond our borders, all are 
red-winged. The color doubtless deepens somewhat with age, as 
in various other insects, but this is quite insufficient to account 
for the variation found here. Probably climatic factors are 
responsible, but the subject needs investigation. 
Wherever a stretch of wind-blown sand occurs, whether a 
vacant lot, a sand-pit, or along the sea-beach, the shores of inland 
lakes, and the banks and bars of rivers either of this or an earlier 
geologic age, there may be found the Sand or Long-horned Locust. 
It is a characteristic inhabitant of the extensive inland blown-sand 
area at Hoxie Station near Norridgewock, Me., and of the sea- 
beach at Nahant or Martha's Vineyard, Mass. ; but it is equally at 
home on patches of loose drj- sand of small extent which often are 
decreasing in size through the encroachment of plant life, — indeed, 
such are its usual habitats in the interior of New England. 
It is a rather insignificant little creature, slender, almost 
wizzened in appearance owing to its constricted pronotum, accen- 
tuated sculpture, and narrow tegmina, and it closely resembles 
its background through a wide range of tints. It is usually 
plentiful where it occurs, though often very local in consequence 
of the nature of its habitat, which maj^ be but a few feet in diam- 
eter. When disturbed it flies but a yard or two, erratically, often 
circling about, and owing to its small size and inconspicuous 
coloring is nearly invisible against the background, save when 
the wings are deeply tinted with red or orange. The male pro- 
duces a slight, scarcely noticeable crepitation during flight, and 
stridulates with hind thighs against the tegmina when at rest on 
the ground. 
It is frequently associated with the Seaside or the Marbled 
Locust in consequence of its habitat-preference, maturing earlier 
than either, however, in July or even the latter part of June, and 
flying for the remainder of the season. It is an inhabitant of all 
of the New England States, but probably not of their boreal 
portions; the following are some of the many localities recorded: 
Brunswick, Fryeburg, Norridgewock, Norway, and Standish, Me.; 
