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FAMILY VII. TETTIGONIIM3. THE KATYDIDS. 



probable that the species occurs as adult in greater numbers 

 earlier than do most other Tettigoniidse, and that by August only 

 occasional survivors are to be found. It occurs for the most part 

 on the undergrowth of open pine woods. In Georgia it is known 

 only from Thomasville, Hebardville and Augusta. 



Scudder (1877, 38) founded for this species and one other the 

 genus Aegipaii which has since been placed as a synonym of 

 Arethwfi. The Aretha^ iiniltiruntosa Brunner (1878,235) is a syn- 

 onym of A. phalanyiuin. 



II. SCUDDERIA Stal, 1873a, 41. (In honor of 8. H. Scudder. ) 

 BUSH KATYDIDS. NARROW-WINGED KATYDIDS. 



This genus includes katydids of medium size, having the ver- 

 tex compressed, hollowed out on either side for the better accom- 

 modation of the eyes ; disk of pronotum flat ; tegmina as described 

 in key, their tips rounded; fore coxa? armed with a spine; fore 

 tibiaB sulcate above with margins acute; hind femora long, slender, 

 almost equalling the length of tegmina in some species; all the 

 knees with lobes armed with two feeble spines. Males with sub- 

 genital plate as described in key; last dorsal segment, in all but 

 one of our eastern species, greatly prolonged, decurved, forked or 



Fig. 152. Lateral view of extremities of male abdomen and dorsal view of male ab- 

 dominal process of Scnddci'ia. a, b, of tc.vensis; c, d, f^istillata; e, f, curvicauda; g, h, 

 furcata. (After Scudder.) 



notched at tip to receive or partially embrace the apical portion 

 of the upcurved subgenital plate (Fig. 152). Females with ovi- 

 positor short, broad, usually curved sharply upward, the apical 

 third finely crenate on both margins (Fig. 153). 



The genus Xnuldrria is mainly confined to America north of 

 Panama and up to 1808, when it was monographed by Scudder, 

 the svnonvmv was so badly mixed that it is difficult to say just 



