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October 1898.1 PSYCHE. 269
10. Peleteria thomsoni Will. Twenty
specimens (18 8 and 2 9 ), varying
from small to large, as follows : Sixteen males, top of ridge above head of
Filmore Caiion, about 8,500 ft., August
28, six taken on flowers of Eriogotzura
jamesii Benth. One male and one
female, Filmore Caiion, about 6000 ft.,
August 29, on flowers of Gutier~ezia Jam- the. One male and one female in cop.,
Filmore Canon, about 7000 ft., August
28, on flowers of Gutiewezia sarothrae.
I I. Gaediopsis monticola n. sp. One
male, top of ridge above head of Filmore Canon, about 8,500 ft., August 28.
Length, lo& mm. Differs from de-
scription of G. seiosa Coq, (Rev. Tach.
p. 136) as follows : Tibiae yellowish red, the anterior ones blackish at base.
Face and sides of front pale yellowish,
former silvery and latter cinereous polli- nose. Second antenna1 joint yellowish
or reddish. Sides of abdomen on first,
second, and third segments broadly pale
red, leaving a broader median area of
black between, which widens posteriorly. Front at bases of antennae twice as wide as either eye, at vertex one and one-fifth times width of either eye. The fine
bristly hairs on sides of face are in two parallel approximated rows near m'argin
of eyes, there being none between the
lateral facial row and the facial ridge
row. Cheeks 4s broad as one-half eye-
height, clothed with bristly hairs. An-
tennae four-fifths as long as face, third joint nearly or quite three times as long as second. First aristal joint as long as wide; second four or five times as long
as first, and fully one-third total length of last joint, which is much tapered on
its final third. The middle tibiae each
bear four macrochaetae on front side,
the fourth or upper one the shortest, in- creasing in length to the lowest one
,
which is longest.
Otherwise agrees in
all respects with the characters given for G. setosa,
NOTES ON NEW ENGLAND ACRIDIIDAE, IV, - ACRIDIINAE, 111. BY ALBERT P. MORSE, WELLESLEY, MASS.
22. SCH~STOCERCA St3. 31. Schistocerca rubiginosa Harris. Schisiocerca Std I 873. Recensio or- Fig. 3 I. thopterorum, I, 73. Acridium rubIginosz~m. Harris Mss. This genus includes locusts of large
in Scudder, Materials etc., Boston Journ. size and rapid and powerful flight ; Nat. Hist., VII, 467 (1862) ; Thomas, they are somewhat arboreal in habit, Syn. Acrid., 170; Fernald, Orth. N. E., frequently alighting or feeding on trees 31 ; Comstock, Introd,, 106; Beutenmul- and shrubs.
ler, Orth. N. Y., 304.




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270 PSYCHE. [umber 1898.
Acrydium rnb@iaosvm. Smith, Orth.
ct., 370.
Schistocerca rt~b&/?msa. Morse, List,
105.
Measurements from 104 8, 43 9 :-
Antenna : f, 13-14.5 ; P, 14-16. H.
fern.: 8, 16-19; T, 20.5-24: Teg. :
Si2j-3O; 9, 32-41. Body: ,?,28-
33 ; 9>39-54. Total : 8, 34-39 1 9,
44-53 mm.
One male from connecticut has the
dorsal margin of the tegrniua pale in
color but not of the bright yellow of
alufacea. This species is much more
uniform in color than ahitacea, rarely or never showing any olivaceous, tlioiigh
males taken late in the season (Sept.
24-Oct. 30) at Wellcsley have much of
the rusty color replaced by gray. The
tegmina are often almost immaculate.
It is more widely distributed in New
England than ahitacea and differs from
it in preferring drier stations; I have
found it most frequently in bushy pas-
tnres and wild land on sandy soil and
along railway embankments, but other-
wise its habits appear similar. My
specimens were taken at various dates
from Aug. j to Oct. 30 at Provincetown,
Dedham (C. J. Maynard), and Welles-
ley, Mass. ; Kingston and Wickford,
R. I.; Thompson, Deep River, New
Haven, North Haven, Stamford, and
Greenwich, Ct. Among these is an im-
mature female from Provincetown on
Sept. 5.
32. Schistocerca alutacea' Harris.
Fig. 32.
Acrydhm ahttaceum. Harris, Report
on Ins. Mass. inj. to veg., p. 139
(1841)~ -Treatise, 3rd ed., 173 ;
Acrydium aluiacenm. Smith, Orth.
ct., 373.
Acridiiim alz~facezm. Scudder, Ma-
terials, 466 ; Thomas, Syn. Acrid., 17 I ; Fernald. Orth. N. E., 31 ; Cornstock,
Introd., 106 ; Heutenmiiller, Orth. N. Y., 304-
Sc/;isfocerca alutacea. Morse, List,
105.
Measurcments from I 13 f , 84 9 : -
Antenna: 8, 15-17; 9, 14.5-17.5.
H. fern. : 8, 17.5-19.5; 9, 22.5-27.
Teg. : 8, 24-30 ; 9 , 36-42. Teg. pass
H. fem. : 8, 2-5 ; 9, 5-8. Body: &
28-32 ; 9, 42-50. Total : 8, 33-39 ;
9, 48-54 mm.
The ground-color of this species
varies remarkably in fresh specimens,
ranging from olive-green through yellow- ish to deep reddish brown; the pro-
notum and tegmina while sometimes un-
spotted are usually and in some cases
heavily marked with dusky blotches.
This species is easily distinguished
from rubigiwsa, the other common inem-
ber of the genus, by the bright yellow
mid-dorsal line, but there are also
structural differences very noticeable
on comparison : the bead and prozona
are narrower and the vertex and facial
costa narrower and more prominent in
alutacea than in rubigi?zosa (see figs.) ; rut@zosa also has stouter fore femora.
This species is common, even abun-
dant locally, in southern New England.
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Vineyard, Mass., and Deep River, North
Haven and Stamford, Ct., where I
found it most at home in the long sedge
and coarse weeds of moist meadows and
bushy swamps. The males apparently
greatly outnumber the other sex and
being more active are more likely to be
seen and secured than the relatively
sluggish females. On warm days both
sexes fly freely, frequently alighting on bushes and trees. Adults begin to
appear in the second week of August
but immature specimens may be found
three weeks or a month later.
The last of August or early September
is the mobt favorable time for collect-
ing.
33. Schistocerca americana Drury.
G?yZ/tts amerzcanus. Drury, Illustr.
Nat. Hist., vol. 11, app., (1773) name?. Fig. in vol. I, pi. 49, fig. 2 ; described, P. 128, (1770).
Locusto tartari~a ? Drury, Exot.
Entom., Westwood ed., vol. I, p. 121,
PI. 49, fig. 2 (1839).
Acridium amcricanum. Scudder, Ma-
terials, 466 ; Comstock, Introd., 106 ;
Beutenmtiller, Orth. N. Y., 304.
Six males, six females from Indiana
give the following measurements :-An-
tenna : if, 12 ; ?, 13-15. H. fern. : f , 23-24; 9, 28-30. Teg. : 3, 42-44;
S, 50-55. Teg. pass H. fern. : f,
10-12 ; 9, 12-16. Body : 8, 39-42 ;
9, 48-55. Total : 8, 52-55 ; 9,
62-68 mm.
This handsome locust will be readily
recognized by its great size and con-
spicuous markings (see fig. in Comstock, and Beutenmtiller, loc. cit.). It is
rarely found in New England and must
be considered a purely adventitious
species, specimens observed being
simply wanderers from the southwest.
It has been taken several times in the
vicinity of New York City and probably
reaches southwestern Connecticut not
very infrequently," but its occurrence
near Boston -was quite unexpected. On
Oct. I, 1883, it was found by Mr. F. H.
Sprague at Wollaston, Mass., where it
was 'I tolerably abundant in one spot on the beach, among the tall grass below
high-tide mark " (Psyche, Dec. 1895, p.
318). In the vicinity of New York it is
said by ~eutenmilller to occur from
early May to early July and again from
the latter part of September to early
November.
23. HESPEROTETTIX Scudd.
Hes-otettix Scudder 1876. Bull.
U. S. Surv. Terr., 11, p. 262.
34. Hesperotettix brevipennis
Thomas.
Ommatolampis brez$ennis. Thomas,
Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., I, No. 2, 1st Ser., p. 67 (1874).
' Hssperofettix viridis. Morse,- List,
103, 106.
Hesperofetfix brevipetmzr. Scudder, -
Rev. Melanopli, 63, pi. v, fig. 2.
Measurements from 24 8, 18 9 : -
Antenna: 8, 7.q-8.5 ; 9, 6.3-7.2.
H. fern.: if, 9.5-10.5; 9, 11.8-12.7.
Teg.: f,7.6-10; 9,g.7-11.7. Body:




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& 15-17 ; 9, 20-24 mm. The teg-
mina fall distinctly short of the end of the abdomen in both sexes, reaching on
the hind femur a point from one-half to
two-thirds the length of the latter from its base.
This is one of our rarer locusts and
with its delicately contrasted tints of
green and purple is one of our daintiest and most attractively colored species. I took one male, all that I could find, at Wellesley, Mass., in August, 1891, in
the early days of my collecting: This
specimen was referred to Mr. Scudder
who determined it provisionally as H.
vi~idis under which name it was recorded (Psyche VI, p. 262) and referred to in
my List (Psyche VII, pp. 103, 106).
In the succeeding July I found a female. The next year, owing to absence at the
proper time, none were taken. In 1894
and '5 I took several. In 1896 my
pupils and I secured a number from va-
rious points near the first locality. All were captured by sweeping vigorously
the short, tufted growth of bunch-grass
(Andropogon scoparius) which with other
wild grasses and running-blackberry
vines sparsely clothe the thin soil of the gravel-plain formation of Wellesley. It
has since been found by Mr. F. H.
Sprague, from whom I have received
specimens, in a similar station at Walpole, Mass. (Psyche, VII, 439). In New
Jersey it is said by Uhler to be not un- common in the cranberry fields of At-
lantic Co. While apparently very local
it probably inhabits many parts of the
three southern New England States.
The season during which it may be
found seems to be relatively short ; the Wellesley specimens were all taken be-
tween July 10 and Aug. 8, nymphs being
secured on the first date and search in
September proving unsuccessful. Mr.
Sprague's specimens were taken on
Aug. 30, but he was unable to find a
male.
24. PODISMA Latr.
Podisma Latreille 1829. Cuvier,
Regne Animal, v, p. 188 (Disciples' ed., Insectes, 11, 24).
35. Podisma glacialis Scudd.
Pesotettix gla~iulis. Scudcler, Boston
Journ. Nat. Hist., vii, 630, 631, pi. xiv, figs. 9, 10 (1863). Smith, Orth. Me.,
149 ; Thomas, Syn. Acrid., 148; Fer-
nald, Orth. N. E., 29 ; Morse, List, 106. Podisma glacialis. Scudder, Rev.
Melanopli, 98, pi. vii, fig. 3.
Measurements from 48 f, 62 9 :
Antenna: 3,s-9 ; 9,7-8.5. H. fern. :
f, 9.5-10.8 ; 9, 10-12. Body : f,
is-iy.~ ; 9, 19-28 mm.
This singular and interesting locust is
not uncommon on the mountains of New
England in the latter part of summer.
The specimens in my collection were
taken between Aug. 14 and Sept. 6 on
Mt. Ktaadn, Me. (F. P. Briggs) ;
Speckled Mt., Stoneham, Me. ; Mt.
Kearsarge, N. H. (3250 ft.) ; Mt. Wash-
ington, N. H. (4000 to 5000 ft.) ; Mt.
Ascutney, Windsor, Vt., and Mt. Grey-
lock, Mass. (3500 ft.). It is also re-
corded from several points in the Adi-




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rondacks, from Pennsylvania, and from
Sudbury, Ont., Canada. At Jackman,
Me., it has been found in " open woods
and bogs " (Harvey, - Psyche, 1897,
p. 77). Mr. Scudder states that "it
frequents the close branches of the
dwarf birch" in the White Mts. Some
of my specimens were obtained from
birch but most were found on or among
the various species of Vaccinium char-
acteristic of the mountain-tops, and on
Ascutney among dwarf cornel. It is
a somewhat sluggish insect, relying
chiefly for protection upon the similarity of its dark olive green coloring to that of the surrounding vegetation, though on warm days the males become fairly
active.
A NEW PARAS.4, WITH A PRELIMINARY TABLE OF THE SPECIES OF THE GENUS.
BY HARRISON G. DYAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.
The Eucleid genera Euclea and Parasa
are closely allied and indeed not well
separated. There is a stronger ten-
dency to the stalking of vein 10 of
primaries in Euclea, but some species
of Parasa show the same character.
Judging from the American larvae alone
there appear to be marked differences
in the early stages of the genera; but
the larva of P. lepida, a true Parasa,
shows the more generalized Euclea
form, proving that our P. chloris is a
specialized offshoot, not a characteristic type for the genus.
Parasa is a ,widespread genus, being
represented in all the continents except Australia and Europe. The following
are its characters : -
Head partially sunken, untufted ; palpi
upturned, reaching half way to the ver-
tex, third joint small, evenly clothed.
Antennae of male pectinated on basal
half, the tip simple, the two regions
usually sharply marked off, occasionally grading into each other; simple in
female. Thorax smoothly haired, not
scaly. Abdomen extending moderately
beyond hind wings. Legs densely
hairy ; posterior tibiae with one pair of spurs. Fore wings with the costa
straight, rarely convex, outer and inner margins rounded ; two internal veins,
2 to 5 rather regularly spaced, 4 and 5
nearest at base ; 6 from cross-vein, 7 to g stalked, rarely 10 also shortly stalked, I I from cell, 12 from base ; discal vein often forked and open. Hind wings
with three internal veins, 2 to 5 regu-
larly spaced, upper half of cell retracted, 6 and 7 usually stalked, 8 anastomosing
with cell toward base with more or less
distinct fine veinlets thrown off toward costa.
PARASA PRASINA ft. 59.-Vertex of head
and thorax green, a few brown hairs at base of fore wings and a very narrow central




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