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broadened laterally with wide, bluntly rounded apex. Tegmina shorter 

 than pronotum, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, usually covering second abdo- 

 minal segment, subattingent in male, widely separated in female, their 

 tips sharply rounded. Subgenital plate with apex truncate or slightly 

 emarginate, the sides, viewed from above, nearly straight. Supra-anal 

 plate longer than wide, triangular, pointed at apex, the sides convex. 

 Furcula stout, feebly tapering parallel projections about equalling the last 

 segment in length and lying on the bases of the median ridges. Cerci 

 roughly boot-shaped, the base very broad, a little longer than wide; apical 

 two-fifths bent abruptly upward at an angle of 35 or 40, narrowed to 

 about one-half the width of base and tapering to a broad, evenly rounded 

 blunt apex; the dorsal margin at the angle or bend, deeply concave, ven- 

 tral margin strongly angulate and beyond the angle straight or slightly 

 concave, thus forming a sub-bifurcate organ as long as the supra-anal 

 plate; the whole appendage being thick, strongly convex externally, es- 

 pecially on tip which is curved gently inward (Fig. 135, f. ) Length of 

 body, $, 910, 9, 1120; of antennae, $, 66.5, 9, 6 7; of tegmina, 

 $, 23, 9, 24; of hind femora, $, 8.59.5, 9, 9.5 11 mm. 



"Balsam, Jackson Co., N. Car., July 24 Aug. 19. Thirty-three 

 specimens found in Vaccinimu thickets and other low shrubbery 

 in deciduous forests and clearings at an elevation of 5,000 to 6,000 

 feet." (Morse.) 



R. & H. (1910a, 634) record six additional specimens taken 

 October 7 at the same place ; the males exceeding Morse's measure- 

 ments by 4 mm. 



Series VI. THE SCUDDERI GROUP. 



Species of medium or small size and rather robust form, hav- 

 ing the general color grayish or russet-brown with the usual dark 

 postocular stripe of the genus feebly developed, often absent in fe- 

 males; hind tibife red with black spines; disk of pronotum rela- 

 tively short with sides subparallel, male, feebly divergent back- 

 ward, female, surface slightly convex or feebly tectiform, median 

 carina low, distinct throughout ; prozona not over one-half longer 

 than metazona, the latter finely rugose-punctate with hind mar- 

 gin obtuse-angulate or broadly rounded; tegmina usually about as 

 long as or slightly longer than pronotum, oval or sub-lanceolate, 

 their dorsal margins attingent or overlapping, tips subacuminate 

 or obliquely rounded, dorsal and lateral fields feebly if at all de- 

 fined; prosternal spine stout, subcylindrical, with blunt rounded 

 apex; hind femora rather slender, usually distinctly surpassing 

 abdomen, male, reaching its tip or slightly beyond, female, their 

 color nearly uniform, rarely with faint fuscous bars on upper face; 

 extremity of male abdomen but slightly enlarged, usually nearly 

 horizontal, subgenital plate broad at base, rapidly tapering to a 

 narrow apex, usually without apical or sub-apical tubercle. 



