578 FAMILY VII. TETTIGOXIIDJE. THE KATYDIDS. 



the eastern half of Nebraska along all the streams the banks of 

 which are lined with shrubs and trees." 



269. CONOCEPHALUS ATTENUATUS (Scudder), 1869, 305. Lance-tailed 

 Meadow Grasshopper. 



Size rather large; form very slender. General color dull brownish 

 yellow, in some specimens tinged with greenish; occiput and pronotum 

 with the usual median stripe reddish-brown; abdomen pale brown, male, 

 reddish-brown, female; femora greenish-brown, rarely bright green, mot- 

 tled with numerous small reddish dots; tibia? and tarsi darker. Fastigium 

 distinctly ascending, three-fourths as wide as basal joint of antennae, its 

 sides subparallel Antennae very long, 73 mm. in one specimen at hand. 

 Lateral lobes with front and lower margins merged without visible angle, 

 lower hind angle sharply rounded, the margins forming it strongly up- 

 curved; humeral sinus obsolete. Tegmina, when abbreviated covering 

 about three-fourths of abdomen, female, reaching or slightly surpassing its 

 tip, male; when fully developed, twice the length of abdomen and exceeded 

 by wings 4 mm. Hind femora long, slender, armed beneath on outer cari- 

 na with one to five spines. Cerci of male long, broad, with apical third 



curved o u t- 

 ward, the basal 

 tooth minute, 

 slender (Fig. 

 189, a.) Ovi- 

 positor excess- 

 ively long and 

 s 1 e n d e r, 



Fig. 192. Female. (After Lugger.) Straight or 



gently curved upward, the margins very finely serrulate and apex acumin- 

 ate. Length of body, $, 1215, 9, 1316; of pronotum, $, 2.63, 9, 2.9 

 3.2; of tegmina, short-winged, $ , 8.5 9.5, $, 8.5 10; long-winged, $, 

 16.519, 9, 19; of hind femora, $, 11 14, 9, 1214; of ovipositor, 20 

 28 mm. (Fig. 192.) 



The short-winged form of this species is much more abundant 

 locally in Indiana than the long-winged one. In Vigo County it 

 was, at one time very plentiful about the borders of two large 

 ponds in the Wabash River bottoms. In Knox County a few speci- 

 mens were secured from the margin of a similar pond bordering a 

 large cypress swamp, while in Kosciusko County it was found 

 to be quite common in some marshes near Tippecanoe and Turkey 

 lakes. In all these places the insects dwelt among the tall rank 

 grasses and rushes growing in shallow water. The males are. 

 as far as my experience goes, the most active leapers among the 

 winged Tettigoniidae, jumping a half dozen or more times without 

 pause when flushed, and in the net leaping so rapidly from side 

 to side as to prevent capture with the fingers. The females are 

 evidently handicapped in their leaping powers by the excessive 



