58J: FAMILY VII. TETTIGONIIM3. THE KATYDIDS. 



fern and lupine. He stated : "My specimens are all peculiar in 

 their coloration, being of a pale, almost bluish-green, instead of 

 dull reddish-brown the usual color of saltans, according to the 

 description." 



On account of the previous confusion of viridifrons with sal- 

 tans the definite range of the former cannot be given. It is known, 

 at stated, from the Red River of the North east to Toronto and 

 south and southwest to Long Island, N. Y., New Jersey and 

 Virginia. 



Morse (1919, 17) reports it, under the name of saltans., as "lo- 

 cally common on the sandy moors of Nantucket, Mass., among 

 bunch grass, wild indigo and huckleberry bushes. The presence of 

 this flightless grasshopper on Nantucket is of especial significance 

 in its bearing on the geological conditions which resulted in the dis- 

 persal and present distribution of the characteristic plants and 

 animals of the sandy coast-plain of New Jersey northeastward." 

 In Virginia Fox found it at numerous localities during Septem- 

 ber and October, usually in coarse dry grasses, Andropogon, in 

 the vicinity of wooded areas. 



VII. ODOXTOXIPHIDIUM Morse, 1901b, 129. (Gr., "toothed" + 



"sword.") 



Closely allied to Conocephalus. Differs by the characters 

 given in the generic key, and in having the "pronotum subsellate, 

 prolonged backward, covering the base of abdomen both above 

 and on the sides, in correlation with the absence of flight or- 

 gans." (Morse). 



274. ODONTOXIPHIDIUM APTERTJM Morse, 1901b, 129. Wingless Meadow 

 Grasshopper. 



Size small for the subfamily; form moderately robust. Reddish- 

 brown; face, hind femora and sides of body green or greenish; occiput and 

 prozona with the usual median stripe reddish-brown bordered each side by 

 a narrow yellowish one; sides of abdomen, male, entire abdomen, female, 

 fuscous-brown; all the femora thickly mottled with small reddish-brown 

 dots. Antennae very slender, four times as long as body. Fastigium feebly 

 ascending, its sides slightly diverging forward, apex two-thirds as wide, 

 male, fully as wide, female, as basal joint of antennae. Disk of pronotum 

 exceedingly smooth, the usual transverse sulcus obsolete; lateral lobes 

 longer than deep, their front margin broadly rounded into the feebly sin- 

 uate lower one, the, latter with hind angle obtusely rounded; hind margin 

 straight, oblique; humeral sinus absent. Tegmina of male conjointly oval, 

 shorter than pronotum, the speculum of left tegmen strongly convex, its 

 basal cross vein slender, covered by metazona, oblique vein abbreviated, 

 the others subobsolete. Hind femora elongate, unarmed beneath, the basal 

 third very stout. Cerci of male straight, very slender, cylindrical, bear- 



