SUBFAMILY IV. COXOCKPIIAI.I X.^. 533 



ton, X. Car., Tappahanuock, Va. and Victoria, Texas. At Tap- 

 pahaimock Fox (1917) took 29 males and 12 females, July 13 

 Aug. 18, which he found mostly "in dense stands of the tall marsh- 

 grass, Spartina cynosu roides (L.), in tidal marshes, a few oc- 

 curring in briery thickets on nearby knolls. Observed ovipositing 

 in the Xpurtinu." It probably occurs sparingly over the areas of 

 the marshes covered by this and allied grasses and reeds all along 

 the Atlantic coast from Virginia to extreme southern Florida 

 and also along the gulf coast of Florida on which the type was 

 taken. As Scudder has noted, the male, on account of its short 

 tegmina and blunt rounded fastigiuni, resembles somewhat a large 

 OrcheUinutn. 



Caudell (1918a) records- a macropterous female of H. malivo- 

 lans from Victoria, Texas, in which both tegmina and wings are 

 50 mm. in length, thus giving the "insect an appearance of being 

 Irrger and more bulky than its brachypterous relatives." 



Subfamily IV. CONOCEPHALIN^:. 



THE MEADOW GRASSHOPPERS. 



"The poetry of earth is never dead: 



When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, 



And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run 



From hedge to hedge about the new mown mead: 



That is the grasshopper's he takes the lead 



In summer luxury he has never done 

 With his delights; for when tired out with fun 



He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed." Keats. 



Species of small or medium size, having the vertex projected 

 upward and forward in the form of a blunt rounded tubercle, 

 concave on each side to accommodate the basal joint of antenna; 

 eyes rather large, subglobose; antenna? very slender, tapering, 

 often of excessive length ; prouotum with not more than one trans- 

 verse sulcus; prosternum toothed or with two slender spines, 

 rarely unarmed; tegmina usually well developed but often 

 dimorphic in the same species, sometimes reduced to mere pads, 

 or even wanting, their color usually green, rarely pale brown; 

 wings usually present and fully developed, absent or very minute 

 in Odonto.fi pJi id in in and much aborted in some species of Con- 

 ocepJiaJus. Other characters much as in the Copiphorinre. 



To this sub-family belong those slender-bodied green grass- 



