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Psyche 7:179, 1894.

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follows : space including ocelli, the ocelli, the eyes, the antennae, the edge of labrum, the maxillae and palpi black, head otherwise cn- tirely reddish ; spot on pleura below, spot on disc of metathorax surrounded by dusky
area, and line on hind coxtic above black, hind tarsi duqky, thorax and legs otherwibe entirely reddish. The black ovipositor
shuatlis extend but a abort distance beyond tip of the reddish abdomen. The head is
wider than high.
To,~oireu~o?t florid1z7~'m Ash tn.-The ovi- positor is fully onc-half as long as the abdomen, the latter is longer and more narrow than in viator. The head is smaller and
much more nan-ow. A femule specimen from Florida received through the kindness of Mr. Ashmead. Wm. /fam/i!on Patten.
NOTES ON THE ORTHOPTERA OF
PENIKESE AND CUTTY HUNK.
These two islands are the outermost of
the Elizabeth group which separates 'Buz- zard's Bay from Vineyard Suund, Penikese being considerably the smaller, somewhat detached, and beet known from its having been the site of the marine laboratory
established by Louis Apssiz. The follow- ing lists of orthoptera are but records of the specimens obtained there while on a
short excursion from the Marine Biologica.1 Laboratory at Wood's Holl on Aug. 9, 1893. While they cannot, of course, be considered complete, it may be worth while to record the species obtained there at this season. The time spent on Cuttyhunk was but
little over an hour- far too short to allow of even an attempt to cover the island. On
Penikese, however, ricarly two hours were spent, and the island quite well examined. One noticeable feature is the apparent
Penikese, where it was expected and sought for; this is perhaps due to the limited area of sandy beach on that island. Although
not seen on Cuityhunk I have little doubt that a longer search would have secured it, A great difference was> observed between the two islands in the abundance of indi- vidiials. On Cuttyhunk from twenty to fifty specimens could be secured as readily as one on Penikese. This was true pnrticu-
lady of Stevoboih~z~s aeqzmlis, S. maculi- pewits, and Melawoplus femur-mirum, the
fields fairly swarming with the young of the latter species. This difference was
chiefly due, 'without doubt, to the large number of sheep and turkeys with which
Penikese is stocked, which ramblc over it at will, and by trampling and feeding upon the young locusts greatly reduce their
numbers.
Nestling in thu grass on Pcnikese were
scores of young terns, some in the down
and some nearly able to fly, while the air was filled with ihe clamor of the parent birds and elder offspring which circled over- head or perching whitened the shore.
Even here,-where they are to some
extent shielded from the persecutions of their arch-destroyer, man -one was pained to witness fresh evidence of the inhuman human hand. Visitors of an earlier date
had mutilated numbers of the young terns by severing the wing-tips, carrying them home as trophies, mementoes of their visit, leaving the crippled wretches to flutter help- lessly about, doomed to a lingering death. Shade of Agassiz! Science is called cruel, hut science was not guilty of this.
Tlie shadow of a tern's wing is but slight, and its hue is that of the surf along the shore, yet it might well forever cloud the memory and darken the record of the heart- less wretches who practised such devilish cruelty upon the helpless innocents of
Penikese,
Stenobothrus aequalis Scuclcl. Abundant. ' mac~ilipennis Scudd. b(
Stenobothrus cnrtipennis Harr. Common.
Dissosteira carolina Linn. Common.




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