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80 PSYCHE- [June 1897.
NOTES ON NEW ENGLAND ACR1DIDAE.-111.
OED1 POD1 NAE-V.
BY ALBERT P. MORSE, WELLESLEY, MASS.
14, CAMNULA Std.
occasionally prolonged for several rods
in a straight line.
Cam~tdu Stil 1873. Recensio Or-
It begins to appear in the winged
thopterorum, i, I 14.
state about July 1st and may be found
20. Camnula pellucida Scudd. Figs.
20, zoa.
Oed+oda $eZZzcida. Scudder, 472
(1862). Smith,- Me., 151,- Colin.,
373 ; Thomas, 137.
Camnula. pellz~ida. Saussure, 81 ;
Fernald, 41 ; Morse, 105 ; Beuten-
muller, 296.
Antenna: 8, 7-9 ; 9, 6-S.5. H.
fern.: ^,g.5-~2.3; $,11-14.7. Teg.:
<?, 15.5-18.5; 9, 19-23.5. Body.
8, 17-21 ; 9 , 21-zS. Total length :
8, 20.5-24.5 ; 9 , 23-30 mm.
In the markings of the teg~nina, fk,
and color t>e/I?ucida. looks like a dimin- utive IIippiscus, to which genus Cam-
nula is not distantly related. It varies much in size and terminal markings
but is not likely to be confused with any other species found here.
It is extremely common, even .abun-
dant locally, throughout the northern
part of New England, being probably
the most numerous in point of individ-
uals of any of our Oedipodhae. It is
found in dry, grassy pastuies and other
iintllled lands, preferably on high
ground. Its flight is silent or slightly rustling, usually low, short, and direct, resembling that of a large Melanoplus ;
when with the wind, however, it is
during the rest of the season.
I have
taken it from July 2 till Sept. 6,
I have collected it at Frycburg, Nor-
way, and on Speckled Mt., Stoneham,
Me.; at various points in the White
Mts., N. H., including the summit of
Mt. Washington ; at Jay,
Hyde Park
and St. Johnsbury, Vt. ; at Winchen-
don, Adams, and on Greylock Mt.,
Mass. ; a single specimen (on a rainy
day) at So. Kent, Ct., in the extreme
western part of the State, and several
at Thompson, in the extreme north-
eastern part. In the latter place it was not uncommon in a locality on the north
side of a high drumlin a mile east of the village. I have also received it from
Hanwer, N, H. (Weed) ; and Florence,
Mass. (S. W, Denton) .
15 HIPPISCUS Sauss.
Hippiscus Saussure 1861. '
Rev. et
Mag. de Zool., xiii, 398, (1861).
A genus of locusts of large size and
robust form represented in New Eng-
land by two species, one common, the
other extremely rare but occurring more
plentifully in the South and West.
Mr. Scndder has recently published a
revision of this genus (Psyche (1892),
p. 265 et seq.).
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21. Hippiscus tuberculatus Pal. d.
Beauv. Figs. 21, zra.
Acrydium #zb&rculatti.m. Palisot cle
Beauvois, Insectes d'Afi'. et d'Amer.
45, pi. 4% fig- 1, (pt- 9,) (1817).
(Tests Saussnre, 87.)
Locusta coraliina. Harris, 176.
Oed'ipoda pJtoenicoptercti Scudder,
468; Smith,- Me., 151, - Conn.,
371 ; Thomas, 135.
Hippisczts tztbercr.tIatus. Saussure,
87 ; -Addit., 27 (var.) ; Femald, 42 ;
Scudder, Psyche, (1892), 303 ; Morse,
105 ; Beutenmiiller, 297.
Antenna : J', 10.5-12 ; 5 , 11.5-13.5,
H. fern. ; 3, 14-16; 5, 18.5-20.5.
- 7
leg. : J' , 24-30 ; 9 , 30-32. Body :
8, 25-28 ; 9 , 36-44. Total length :
8 i .~-38;
9 3 39-43.
Yellow-winged examples of this
species have been taken but arc very
rare. Oftentimes the head, pronot~~m
and hind femora, even in the half grown
nymph, are largely greenish.
This is the largest and most striking
locust of the present group. Owing to
its gaily colored wings it is a conspicu- oils object in flight, but it is sufficiently alert and active to make its capture a
matter of some clifficnlty, being both
very ready to take wing and flying a
considerable distance. The 9 is much
less active than the rf and is difficult to flush more than once or find unless
marked clown with great care. Both
are occasionally secured in sweeping.
The strid~ilation of the J' is a rapid
rattle, louder, but similar to that of
Arphia szdphurea, with which species
this is comnionly found associated.
It
is found in bushy pastures and untilled
land of light soil or elevated location. The young, which may be found as
early as the latter part of August, are
curious little depressed, toadlike objects usually purplish leaden in color. They
may be found, under suitable conditions, in the fall, winter, and early spring
months in localities frequented by the
adult.
This species appears in the winged
state about the first of May, probably
sometimes in the last week of April,
and may be found until the middle or
latter part of July. I have taken it on
May 8 and July 13.
I have seen it from Norway, Me. ;
and have examples from Keene, N. H.
(Prof. Weed) ; Brattleboro, Vt. (MIS.
J. B. Powers) ; Winchenclon, Marl-
boro, Sudbury, Wellesley and several
towns in the immediate vicinity, in
Mass. ; Thompson, and So. Kent
(young), Ct. It is also very widely
distributed outside of New England.
22. Hippiscus rugosus Scudd.
Fig. 22.
Oedipoda mgosa. Sciidder, 469
(1862). Smith, Me., I 51 ; Thomas,
132.
Hiffiscus ru~osus. S~USSLI~~, 85 ;
Fernald, 42 ; Scudder, Psyche, (1892 -,
zS7 ; Morse, 105 ; Beutenmaller, 298.
This species does not differ materially
in size from its congener, the preceding, which is the only one with which it is
likely to be confused, and from which
it is readily distinguished by the form




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82 PSYCHE. [June iSq7.
of the head and pronoturn.
The wings
are usually yellow, often pale yellowish- white, sornetin~es orange or even red.
This is our rarest Occlipocline, and
the only one which I have not met in
the field in an extended experience in
collecting the New England locusts.
Reported from Norway, Me., by Smith,
and eastern Mass. by Scudder, nothing
is recorded concerning the date of cap-
ture or character of the locality where
found. It probably occurs, however,
in localities similar to those frequented by its congener. Numerous specimens
which I refer to this species were found by Mr. S. W. Denton in Ohio and
Illinois in midsummer.
THE LARVA OF LYCOMORPHA PHOLUS.
BY HARRISON G. DYAR, NEW YORK.
,839, Harris, Silliman's Journ. Sci. Arts. XXXVI, 318.
1862. Harris, Ins. Inj. veg. 341.
1869 Melsheimer, Harris' ent. corresp. p. 112.
1882. Packard, Papilio 111, 181.
1896. Dyar, Proc. Boston soc. nat. hist., XXVII, 136.
Harris states that the larva lives on lichens growing on rocks.
Melsheimcr found them on lichens on the
trunks of hickory trees.
The full grown larvae occurred to me not uncommonly on an old stone fence fit Jeffer- son Highlands, N. H. in the middle of June. Eggs were obtained a month later.
E-yg. Laid singly, adherent. Oblately
spheroidal, the lower half more flattened than the upper, both well rounded ; a little elongated in one diameter, but only just per- ceptible. No true reticulations, hut the sur- face is distinctly flattened in hexagonal areas, the edges of which are not defined into eleva- tions, but form simple angles of the surface. These areas are rather large in proportion to the egg, regular. Surface a little granular. Color shiningr dark bluish green. Diameter .'; mm.
Stage I. Head bilobed, hlack; width .3
mm. Body all whitish, the hairs long and pale ; tubercles coi-icolorous.
The hairs are
barbuled and arise singly from the small tubercles, normal, subprimaries absent. On the thorax seta ii b is distinctly present, not weak ; i a. i b and ii a in line, rather remote. The head is blackish with sutures inky black. Length of larva I. j mm.
Mature lafw~. Gray, dotted with pale
green with thin, very long, blackish hairs. Head bilobed, clypeus large, lower pan pale; brown with two pale green, narrow, trans- verse, irregular lines; hairs short, white; width 1.5 mm. Body rather flattened,
brown gray with many irregularly triangu- lar, transversely streaked patches; p. gemin- :ite, rather large, anterior segmental, dorsal, pale yellow one on joints 5 to 11 is most dis- tinct. the others whitish, smaller and con- fused. Legs pale, two setae on the obscurely corneous plate. I have described the other setae.
The spottings seem to represent broken
ad-dorsal, lateral, suprastign~atal and sub- stigmata1 lines. The coloration closely re- sembles the lichen covered rocks, so that the larvae are only seen on close examination. Cocoon. A fine arched thin web on one
side of a stone.
PqJa. Delicate, thin shelled, pale brown. Smooth, not tapering much till the anal seg- ments, compact, motionless, though two in- cisures stretch out somewhat when the moth emerges. Anal end smooth, no trace of
cremaster. Cases compact, the leg and an-



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