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parallel, ending in a flattened, externally sulcate, incurved, 
bluntly rounded, symmetrical tip, which is sometimes a little 
more produced on the ventral side of the apex; the ventral 
margin is nearly straight. The furcula consists of a pair of 
short, narrow, cylindrical, parallel fingers about equal to last 
dorsal segment, on narrow bases. 
Color: in general, dark rufous or smoky brown above, pale 
grayish or yellowish beneath. The lateral black stripe pro- 
nounced, usually nearly solid on the pronotum and continued 
on sides of thorax and abdomen, cut only by the white metepi- 
sternal line. Hind femora not fasciate. Hind tibiae cherry red, 
sometimes paler at base. 
Measurements. 
Male 
Female 
Body 
Tegmina 
Hind femora 
Antenna 
14-17.5 
2-4 
8.3- 9 
6.5-7 
18-25 
.3-5 
10 -12 
6.5-7 mm. 
This attractive little short-winged Locust was described by 
Professor S. I. Smith from material secured on Speckled Mt., 
Stoneham, Me. In search of topotypic material I visited the 
mountain over twenty years afterward and was successful in 
finding it without diflniculty . Since then I have taken it at Cherry- 
field, Me.; Pequawket Mt., N. H., 2000 to 3250 ft.; Ascutney 
Mt., Vt., 3300 ft.; Mt. Everett, Mass., 2600 ft.; Bear Mt., Ct., 
2350 ft.; and Kaaterskill High Peak, Catskill Mts., N. Y., 3800 
ft. Messrs. S. H. Scudder, Morgan Hebard, and C. P. Alexander 
have secured it on Mt. Desert Id., Me.; Professor W. S. Blatchley 
at North Madison and Woodbridge, Ct.; and it is recorded from 
the highlands of New Jersey. 
I have usually found it in the dwarf thickets of blueberry 
bushes and other species of Vaccinium, on the sterile, rocky, 
exposed parts of the mountains and the blueberry barrens of 
Maine, and often in the near vicinity the Wingless White Moun- 
tain Locust, but sometimes in much drier surroundings. It is an 
alert and agile species, when approached springing suddenly and 
to a distance, sometimes making several leaps in succession. 
It probably reaches maturity in late July and early August, 
adults having been taken from August 8 to September 6. It is 
apparently very local in distribution, at least in the southern 
part of its range. Careful search will probably reveal its pres- 
