MORSE: ORTHOPTERA OF NEW ENGLAND. 521 
Adults of this species have an exceptionally juvenile aspect. 
This is due to their form and proportions and the relatively dull 
coloration, which is lacking in effective contrast when compared 
with other species; and the general aspect is accompanied, 
curiously enough, by a weak chitinization of the body wall, so 
that the insect not only looks immature but even feels so! This 
is especially true of the female. 
Scudder's Short-winged Locust is more southern in distribution 
than our other short-winged species of this genus. It has been 
taken thus far in New England only in Connecticut and in 
southern Massachusetts. Beyond our borders it extends to 
southern Minnesota and southward to Georgia and eastern 
Texas. 
Professor S. I. Smith, at the time residing in New Haven, was 
the first person to discover this Locust in New England, I believe. 
At his suggestion, some twenty years afterward, I sought for it 
in the vicinity of West Rock, in that city, and found it plentiful 
among the stones and bushes of the talus slope at the foot of the 
cliff. Afterward, I took it in small numbers at North Haven 
and Deep River in the southern part of the State, and at South 
Kent in the western part. Scudder reports it from Springfield, 
Mass., taken by J. A. Allen; and I have taken it at Wareham. 
The dates of capture range from August 19 in Connecticut to 
November 22 in Indiana. Walden records it as "rather common 
in the latter part of the season in open places in bushy pastures, 
on hillsides, or along the edge of woodland." It shows a prefer- 
ence for dry soil rather than damp and in the vicinity of Ithaca, 
N. Y., is reported from the tops of hills among scattered trees. 
Blatchley records it as sunning itself on fence rails and the sides 
of logs in late autumn. 
Two locality records for this species that have appeared in 
scientific literature do not apply to it and are likely to mislead. 
These are: Brunswick, Maine, Packard in Scudder's "Revision 
of the Melanopli," p. 214, and Manchester, N. H., Fogg, in Proc. 
Manchester Inst. Arts and Sciences, vol. 2, p. 32, 1901; both 
references apply to Dawson's Locust (q. v., p. 516). 
