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and Colorado, and south and southwest to Maryland, North Caro- 

 lina, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas. In the southern coastwise 

 states it is replaced by the nominal race or variety, .1. o. floridana 

 R. & H. In Ontario Walker (1904a, 329) states that it is rare 

 about Toronto, but common from Hamilton westward to the St. 

 Clair River, occurring for the most part on shrubs and tall weeds. 

 The note of the male, he says, "is very harsh and scraping in char- 

 acter and is usually of about three-fifths of a second's duration. 

 At a little distance it sounds something like '/,-/.:/.- //,-.' I have heard 

 it at night and in the afternoon while the sun was still shining." 



Lugger (1898, 223) states that both ,1. oltlonc/i folia and ro- 

 ti/ndifolia occur abundantly in Minnesota, frequenting bushes 

 and tall weeds in low places. Both appear to be scarce in Mich- 

 igan, Hubbell (Ms.) listing ol)lont/i folia only from Wayne, Ing- 

 ham and Jackson counties, and rotund! folia from Washteuaw Co. 

 About Moline, 111., McNeill (1891) found oltlonr/ifolia more com- 

 mon in the vicinity of houses than the species of Sciidderia, and 

 states that its note is "a quick shuffling sound which resembles 

 'katy' or 'katydid,' very slightly. It sometimes flies in the eve- 

 ning, but much more rarely than does 8. curricfiuda" 



Hancock (1910) has given an account of the egg-laying habits 

 of oltlongifolia as follows: 



"When ready to oviposit the female comes down to the ground from 

 the vegetation which she frequents. She then searches about on the 

 ground, often among the dead leaves, to find a suitable place to deposit her 

 eggs. She does this very deliberately and slowly, feeling her way with 

 her palpi, often nibbling the surface as if testing a suitable place. At 

 times she appears to be quite exacting in her choice of location, one of 

 these requisites being a certain amount of dampness of soil, as well as cer- 

 tain surface conditions. When she finds a suitable spot, she curves her 

 abdomen, which is now distended with eggs, forward underneath her body 

 and at the same time seizes the end of the large ovipositor in her mandi- 

 bles. In this way she directs its point to the desired place in the ground. 

 Then she forces or drills a hole in the earth for the reception of each egg 

 or cluster of eggs. Sometimes they are laid at such a shallow depth in the 

 ground that the rains splash away the dirt covering, fully exposing them to 

 the air." 



Brunei' (1891, 73) described Amblycorypha scuddcrw from 

 Nebraska, stating that it differs from oblongifolia by its smaller 

 size, more evenly rounded or arcuate edges of tegmina, compara- 

 tively shorter hind legs and more strongly serrated point of ovi- 

 positor. R. & H. (1914b, 320) have made scitddciw a synonym 

 of ol)1ongifolia. stating that "the characters mentioned b} 7 Bruner 

 are worthless," though they use two of them, viz., the arcuate edge 



