SUBFAMILY IV. COXOCEPHALINJE. 567 



m. Face with a median reddish-brown stripe or blotch; apical por- 

 tion of male cercus (beyond the tooth) longer than basal por- 

 tion, distinctly incurved or twisted, its inner face near tip flat- 

 tened, the tooth bent inward and downward (Fig. 189, d. ) 



272. SALTANS. 



mm. Face a pale uniform green; apical portion of cercus short, coni- 

 cal, not twisted or flattened within, the tooth stouter, horizontal 

 or nearly so (Fig. 189, e.) 273. VIRIDIFRONS. 



260. CONOCEPHALUS ALLARDi (Caudell), 1910, 58. Allard's Meadow Grass- 

 hopper. 



Size medium for the genus; form robust. General color green; head 

 and pronotum with a dark stripe extending from vertex to hind margin 

 of metazona, less distinct posteriorly; tegmina pale brownish-green, male, 

 uniform green, female; hind femora spotted with reddish-brown, the knees 

 fuscous; dorsum of abdomen including cerci dark brown. Fastigium feebly 

 ascending, its greatest width about two-thirds that of basal joint of an- 

 tennas. Lateral lobes of pronotum very broad, their front margin straight, 

 oblique and broadly rounded into the lower one which is nearly horizontal, 

 its hind angle narrowly rounded; humeral sinus obsolete; convex callosity 

 very broad. Tegmina covering three-fourths of abdomen, male, one-half, 

 female, their tips broadly rounded. Hind femora unarmed beneath. Cerci 

 of male stout, the tooth triangular, flat and broad at base, the apical por- 

 tion of cercus behind it about twice as long as the basal width, the apex de- 

 pressed, concave (Fig. 188, e.) Ovipositor straight, its apical fourth ab- 

 ruptly tapering (Fig. 189, f.) Length of body, $ , 12, $, 15; of pronotum. 

 $ and $, 33.4; of tegmina, $, G.5, $, 5; of hind femora, $, 11.512.5, 

 5, 13; of ovipositor, 15 17 mm. 



Caudell's types were taken by Allard on Tray Mountain, 

 North Georgia, at an altitude of 4,309 feet. Known elsewhere 

 only from Wytheville, Ya., and Rabim Co., Georgia. Of the type 

 specimens Allard furnished Caudell the following notes: 



'*! first heard and captured specimens of this Xipliidlon late 

 in September, in a sunny, grassy spot in the woods at Indian 

 Grave Gap, Towns County, North Georgia. A few days later I 

 found it in similar sunny, open situations on Tray and Blue 

 Mountains, in the immediate vicinity of Indian Grave Gap. It 

 prefers the low weeds and short grass, and was very musical dur- 

 ing the sunny hours of the day. Its song is strikingly unlike 

 the notes of Xiphidion fasclatuin or A'i/tlii<lio>i itcinonilc. as no 

 staccato notes whatever precede the more or less prolonged lisping 

 phrases. These phrases are soft, faint and often greatly pro- 

 longed. In sound quality they recall to mind the notes of OrcJicli- 

 1,1 ii in minor." 



261. CONOCEPHALUS FASCIATUS (DeGeer), 1773, 458. Slender Meadow 

 Grasshopper. 



Size small for the genus, form very slender. Face, sides of pronotum 



