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yellow, brownish when dried; less reddish-brown, head Ir.n litM:- longer 

 than broad. Tubercles on sides of mesonotum more di-iinci. Body of 



female six to six and a half times 

 longer than broad; of male, about 

 twelve times as long as brnad. Ninth 

 segment of male abdomen much more 

 deeply notched at apex, than in t>u- 

 prestoides. Length of body, . 30 

 3G, 5, 5056; of head, , 3, 9, 5-5; 

 of antennae, $ , 22, 9, 34: of mesono- 

 tum, $, 5 G, 9, 9 10; of metanotum, 

 $ , 4i 5, $ , 8 9.5; of hind femora, $ , 

 9, 9, 12 mm. (Fig. 57.) 



Fig. 57. Female. Natural size. 

 (After Candell.) 



This walking-stick has been 

 taken in Indiana only near Wyan- 

 dotte, Crawford Co.. Grand Chain, 

 Posey Co., and Medora. .Jackson 

 Co., having been found in large 

 numbers in all three localities. 

 The first ones noted were in Craw- 

 ford Co. on June 28, 1902, when 

 the young about an inch and a 

 half long were found beneath loose 

 flakes of bark on oak and other 

 trees. In the first week in September 1 again visited the locality 

 and found scores of pairs of them, all mating, beneath the loose 

 bark of old oak snags and stumps. A half dozen or more pairs 

 were often found within an area of a foot or two square, the 

 large, heavy bodied female bearing her diminutive liege lord upon 

 her back. None of the specimens noted were feeding, though they 

 probably live upon the leaves of oak and other trees. The species 

 was later found in numbers in Posey and Jackson Counties, and 

 probably occurs in most of the counties bordering the Ohio River. 

 It is but one of many forms of insect and plant life which have 

 their most northern habitat in the southern third of Indiana. 



The range of A. f<Tnic/in<'<i is given by R. & H. (1910, 127) as 

 extending from ''just north of the Ohio River, south over the Mis- 

 sissippi to the Gulf States, west to extreme southeastern Ne- 

 braska and eastward through the Appalachians in Virginia and 

 in the high portions of the Carolinas and Georgia." Tt is known 

 from Union Co., 111., and a specimen in the r. S. National Mu- 

 seum collection is from Arcadia. La. Caudell's Florida record 

 (1903a) is now known to have been based on a specimen of Inipres- 

 toides. 



