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locality has ever appeared, and no specimens have been seen 
since. It is, however, a species of wide distribution and powerful 
flight and its presence in Connecticut may be expected at any 
time. It ranges over the eastern part of the United States, the 
West Indies, and a large part of South America. 
Its flight is extended, swift, somewhat jerky, and rustling, and 
it perches indifferently on all sorts of vegetation from tall grasses 
and weeds to trees, rarely alighting on the ground. Rank growths 
of grass, weedy jungles, shrubby pastures, and stubble-fields are 
its usual haunts, though it may be met with almost anywhere. 
In the southern States adults occur throughout the year, but 
are said to be more plentiful in autumn. Its life history varies 
much with the latitude, and irregularities are probably largely 
due also to variations in time and place of oviposition and rate 
of development. 
Rusty Locust; Leather-colored Locust; Striped Rusty 
Locust. 
Schistocerca alutacea (Harris) and Schistocerca alutacea rubiginosa (Scudder). 
Fig. 86; Plate 12, fig. 2; Plate 22, figs. 1, 2. 
Acrydium alutaceum Harris, Rept. Ins. Inj. Veg., p. 139 (1841); Treatise, 
3d ed., p. 173 (1862).— Smith, Rept. Ct. Bd. Agric. for 1872, p. 373 
(1873). 
Acridium alutaceum Fernald, Orth. N. E., p. 31 (1888). 
Schistocerca alutacea Morse, Psyche, vol. 8, p. 270 (1898). — Walden, Bull. 
Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 108 (1911). 
Acridium rubiginosum Scudder, Boston Jonrn. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, p. 467 
(1862).— Fernald, Orth. N. E., p. 31 (1888). 
Schistocerca rubiginosa Morse, Psyche, vol. 8, p. 269 (1898). — Walden, 
Bull. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 109 (1911). 
Large, with robust thorax, particularly in the female. Face 
nearly vertical. Antennae ranging from equal to nearly twice 
as long as head and prothorax. Pronotum rounded above, 
sometimes a little tectiform, the disk of metazone somewhat 
flattened; mid-carina distinct or obsolete, lateral carinae absent, 
Tegmina long; wings long, transparent, or a little yellowish 
toward base. Feet and legs large, with coarse spines and very 
large pulvilli. Cerci of male oblong, one and one-half times as 
long as wide, apex shallowly sulcate, sides a little convex, apical 
margin a Httle oblique, emarginate or concave. Cerci of female 
