520 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
ence at numerous other points in the southern half of New 
England. 
Scudder's Short- winged Locust. 
Melanoplus scudderi (Uhler). 
Plate 22, fig. 25-27. 
Pezotettix scudderi Uhler, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., vol. 2, p. 555 (1864). — 
Smith, Rept. Ct. Bd. Agric. for 1872, p. 370 (1873). 
Melanoplus scudderi Scuddee, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 20, p. 212, pi. 14, 
figs. 5, 6 (1897).— Morse, Psyche, vol. 8, p. 280 (1898).— Walden, Bull. 
Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 116 (1911). 
A little below the medium size, the male small in proportion to 
the female. Body distinctly compressed. Mid-carina of pro- 
notum visible throughout; lateral lobes nearly as deep as long. 
Prosternal spine flattened from front to rear, broad, blunt-pointed, 
round or even truncate at tip. Tegmina about equal to pro- 
notum, broadly lanceolate, acute, acuminate, or rounded at apex. 
Hind femora plump but of graceful form. Subgenital plate 
short, conical, with dorsal and ventral margins equal, the ventral 
slightly concave, the apex smoothly rounded both from above 
and the side. Cerci two-thirds as long as the supra-anal plate, 
bluntly triangular, erect, curved a little upward and inward, 
the tip broadly rounded and externally shallowly and broadly 
sulcate. Furcula reduced to very short tubercles scarcely as 
long as last dorsal segment, from tumid bases, parallel, divergent, 
or inflected. Ovipositor well exserted, with long and very 
acutely pointed valves. 
Color: light to dark rufous or ochraceous brown above, 
yellow beneath. Lateral stripe distinct in male only, and 
restricted to prozone. Sides of body pale, lacking fuscous. 
Hind femora unspotted or showing only traces of bands. Hind 
tibiae bright red, sometimes paler proximally but without either 
dark or pale annulus at base. Abdomen pale. 
Measurements. 
Body Tegmina Hind femora Antenna 
Male 15-18 4-4.5 av. 5 except. 8-8.5 10-11 6.5-7 
Female 17-24 5-8 " 6 11-13 6 -7 mm. 
