568 FAMILY VII. TETTIGONIID^. THE KATYDIDS. 



and abdomen, and basal portion of ovipositor, green; tegmina and apical 

 third of ovipositor pale reddish-brown; upper side of abdomen, and stripe 

 on occiput and disk of pronotum darker brown; legs green, tarsi tinged 

 with fuscous. Fastigium not ascending, its sides feebly diverging from 

 base forward. Lateral lobes deeper than long, lower margin strongly 

 oblique, its hind angle narrowly rounded; humeral sinus obsolete; convex 

 callosity low, narrow. Tegmina surpassing hind femora 1 to 2 mm., ex- 

 ceeded by wings 2 to 3 mm. Cerci as in key and Fig. 188, f. Subgenital 

 plate of male truncate. Ovipositor straight, about two-thirds as long as 

 hind femora. Length of body, $, 1213.5, 9, 12 14.5; of pronotum, $, 

 33.5, 2, 2.83.2; of tegmina, $, 1418, $, 15 19; of hind femora, $, 

 11 12, 9, 11.513; of ovipositor, 7.3 9.4 mm. 



This handsome little meadow grasshopper is abundant 

 throughout Indiana in timothy and clover meadows and especially 

 so about small streams in low-ground, blue-grass pastures. It is 

 one of the first of the Tettigouiidte to reach maturity, specimens 

 having been taken in Vigo County as early as July 5, and it may 

 be found until mid-October. In Florida it is also a common spe- 

 cies having been taken by me at Gainesville, Lakeland and Dune- 

 dm, Oct. 24 Jan. 26, and recorded by other collectors from nu- 

 merous stations, as far south as Miami and Detroit, but not from 

 the southern keys. About Dunedin it occurs in old fields, along 

 railway embankments and among the undergrowth in open pine 

 woods. If no frosts occur adults are found until midwinter, and 

 nymphs are very frequent in March and April. 



The known range of C. fasciatus is probably the widest of any 

 American Tettigoniid, extending from New England and Nova 

 Scotia north and west to Aweme, Manitoba, Wyoming and New 

 Mexico, and south at least to Bermuda, southern Florida and 

 northern Mexico. Piers (1918, 324) records it as very common 

 throughout Nova Scotia, where it is the only true meadow grass- 

 hopper known. He says: "It frequents damp situations such 

 as wet meadows and marshes and is found among moist thick 

 patches of succulent and rank-growing grasses. Adults are met 

 with from the middle of July until after hoar-frosts. The stridula- 

 tion of the male is rather weak and to me sounds like the syllables, 

 plee-e-e-c-e-e, tzit, tzit, tzit, tzit, the first part of the call being 

 a rapid, vibrating note." Walker (1004, 338) says it is much the 

 most abundant locustid found in Ontario, being as abundant at 

 North Bay as along the southern boundary, adults appearing 

 about mid-July and remaining until October. 



Allard (1011) notes its habits in New England as follows: 

 ''The tiny Xipliidiinn fascia turn DeGeer prefers the tangles of 

 weeds and grasses bordering the grass fields, and may oftentimes 



