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FAMILY vii. TETTIGONIID;E. THE KATYDIDS. 



dividing and extending back along the lateral carinse; tegmina with nu- 

 merous very small, scattered brown spots; spines of the femora and tibiae 

 tipped with brown. Fastigium constricted at base, widest at middle, then 

 feebly narrowed to the rounded apex. Pronotum with lateral carinae very 

 obtuse, feebly divergent, both its disk and the occiput finely rugose-punc- 

 tate; lateral lobes much longer than deep, their lower margin broadly 

 rounded into the front and hind ones; humeral sinus broad, very shallow, 

 male, much deeper, female. Tegmina elongate, surpassing the hind femora 

 about 16 mm, tip of ovipositor, 5 mm.; stridulating field of male rather 

 small and broad, its main vein heavy, the others very weak. Front and 

 middle femora armed beneath on the outer carina with two or three 

 small spines. Hind femora very slender, armed beneath with six to 

 eight slender spines on each carina, Subgenital plate of male with me- 

 dian notch narrow, the styles stouter and broader than in any other spe- 

 cies, their tips bluntly rounded. Length of body, $, 3340; of fastigium 

 2.63; of pronotum, 8.79; of tegmina, 41042; of hind femora, 2325 

 mm. (Fig. 177.) 



LaGrange and 

 Parish, Fla., June 

 July 31 ; Logtown 

 and Ratliff, Miss. 

 ( D a v is. ) Recorded 

 only from Home- 

 stead, Fla., a n d 

 Billy's Island, Ga., 



Fig. 177. Male type. X i-3- (After R. & H.) June July, the for- 



mer being the type locality. R. & H. (1915, 399) state that: "The 

 song of this very shy and vigorous species is a loud and contin- 

 uous buzzing. It is apparently a native of the undergrowth of the 

 pine forests of the extreme southeastern United States." 



242. NEOCOXOCEPHALUS EETUSUS (Scudder), 1879a, 93. Round-tipped 

 Cone-head. 



Size small for the genus; form slender. Color usually green, often 

 pale brown with tegmina faintly maculate; fastigium with margins yel- 

 lowish, its apex only with a curved black line on under surface; lateral 

 carinse of pronotum often yellowish; tibis 1 , tarsi and apical half of ovi- 

 positor usually more or less fuscous. Fastigium shorter than the inter- 

 ocular width, convex above, its sides subparallel, (Fig. 169, k.) basal tooth 

 obtuse. Pronotum coarsely and thickly punctate, transverse sulcus dis- 

 tinct, metazona three times as long as prozona, hind margin very broadly 

 rounded, lateral carina 3 feebly divergent, female, rather strongly so, male; 

 lateral lobes with lower margin oblique, its hind angle obsolete, hind mar- 

 gin broadly rounded; humeral sinus broad, shallow. Tegmina relatively 

 short, surpassing the hind femora only 8 10 mm., their tips rather broadly 

 rounded. Front and middle femora usually unarmed beneath, rarely with 

 a single small spine. Hind femora with 2 6 small spines on each of the 

 lower carinse. Notch of subgenital plate of male broad, the styles slender. 



