512 FAMILY VII. TETTIGOXIIDJE. THE KATYDIDS. 



and south to Arkansas, Texas, Cuba, Mexico and Central America, 

 though very few records of its occurrence in the United States 

 have been made. 



III. NEOCONOCEPHALUS Karney, 1907, 22. (Gr., "near v -|- 



Conocephalus.) 



This generic name takes the place of Conocephalus of my Or- 

 thoptera of Indiana (1903, 363). The members of the genus are 

 readily known by having the fastigium of vertex prolonged for- 

 ward and more or less upward into a cone which much exceeds 

 in length the first segment of the autennse, and bears a pointed 

 basal tooth beneath. This cone is never hooked downward at tip 

 as in Pt/rgocori/itlia and is much less rugose above than there. In 

 addition they have the eyes small, subrotund, rather prominent; 

 spines of prosternum long and slender; pronotum with disk usual- 

 ly nearly twice as long as wide, its sides feebly diverging from 

 apex to base; front margin subtruncate, hind one broadly round- 

 ed, lateral carinae distinct but obtuse, humeral sinus usually 

 broad, shallow, rounded; lateral lobes as deep or slightly deeper 

 than long, their front margin broadly obliquely rounded into the 

 lower one which is short and also rounded into the hind one, the 

 posterior angle usually obsolete; tegmina long, narrow, rounded 

 at end, much surpassing the abdomen and slightly exceeding the 

 wings; stridulating organ on left tegmen of male opaque and of 

 a coarse texture, on right or lower one, transparent at the cen- 

 ter; front and middle femora rather short, usually armed be- 

 neath with a few very short spines; hind femora long, slender, 

 usually with both lower margins armed beneath with numerous 

 fine spines. Male with supra-anal plate broadly emarginate at 

 apex, the lobes each side of notch ending in a spine; cerci much 

 as in Pyrgocorijplia, the appendages at end not flattened, but in- 

 curved and spinose as there; subgenital plate emarginate, the 

 styles very short and set in sockets on the extreme tips of the 

 projections each side of notch. Ovipositor rather narrow, nearly 

 straight, oftentimes of excessive length ; the eggs of those species 

 in which the oviposition has been noted, being deposited between 

 the stems and root leaves of grasses, reeds and sedges. 



Although these larger cone-heads are said to be rather com- 

 mon by those writers who have prepard lists of Orthoptera from 

 other states, they appear to be, in Indiana, the least abundant of 

 all the winged Tettigoniidae, 20 years collecting having yielded 

 fewer than 30 specimens. They appear to be more common in 



