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ORTHOPTERA. 
4. Locusta Maritima}^ Maritime Locust 
Ash-gray; face variegated with white; wing-covers sprin¬ 
kled with minute brownish spots, and semi-transparent at tip; 
wings transparent, faintly tinted with yellow next the body, 
uncolored at tip, with a series of irregular blackish spots 
formino; a curved band across the middle; hindmost shanks 
and feet pale yellow, with the extreme points of the spines 
black. Length f to If inch; exp. lyV inch to 2f inches. 
This species comes very near to Mr. Kirby’s description 
of the Locusta leucostoma ; but is evidently distinct from it, 
and does not appear to have been described before. I have 
received it from Sandwich, and have found it in great abun¬ 
dance amoiiCT the coarse grass which grows near the edges 
of our sandy beaches, but have never seen it except in the 
immediate vicinity of the sea. It comes to maturity and lays 
its eggs about the middle of August or a little later. 
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5. Locusta CBqualis}^ Barren-ground Locust. 
Ash-gray, mottled with dusky brown and white; wing- 
covers semi-transparent at tip, with numerous dusky spots 
which run together so as to form three transverse bands; 
wings light yellow on their basal half, transparent with 
dusky veins and a few spots at the tip, with an intermediate 
broad black band, which, curving and becoming narrower 
on the hind margin, is continued to the inner angle of the 
wing; hindmost shanks coral-red, with a broad white ring 
below the knees, and the spines tipped with black. Length 
If inch; exp. 2f inches. 
]Mr. Say, to whom I sent a specimen of this handsome 
locust, informed me that it was his Gryllus equalis^ probably 
intended for cequalis. It is found, during the months of July 
[ 13 L. mnritima must be refeiTed to (Edipodn. — Uhler.] 
[ 14 L. cequalis and latipennia are merely to be separated as races of one species, 
and cannot remain as separate species. They must be referred to the genus 
CEdipoda. — Uhler.] 
