SUBFAMILY IV. CONOCEPHALIN^E. 557 



neatli. Ovipositor very feebly curved above, distinctly longer and broader 

 than in coin-inniiui, its lower margin more strongly tapering to the acute 

 point (Fig. 184, f.) Length of body, $ , 1C, 9, 17.5; of antennae, $ and , 

 about 50; of pronotum, $, 3.8, $, 4; of tegmina, <5 , 19, 9, 20; of hind 

 femora, ^,14, 9, 15; of ovipositor, 10.5 13 mm. 



Lincoln and West Point, Neb., September (Kriuicr) ; Starke 

 and Marshall counties. hid., July 30 Aug. 20 (ir. N. /'.). I can- 

 not follow K. & H. (li)15a, <0) in making this a synonym of t-on- 

 ci it H ii in. If the size and form of the ovipositor is of any value 

 whatever in separating the females of this genus (and they have 

 used its variations as the principal differential character in their 

 key to the females) its greater length and distinctly straighter 

 form in dcUcatuni at once separate it from coin-imniiii or its va- 

 riety canij'tf'xtrc. In order to accommodate their synonymy R. & H., 

 in this key to females, have had to lead up to coiu-'ntntnn in two 

 different places, as when dcl'mitnm was included with it it would 

 not go under "Ovipositor less than half the length of caudal 

 femur." The differences as given in key and above are sufficient 

 to retain it as a distinct variety. 



This OrcJicliiititni was described from West Point and Lincoln, 

 Xebr., where Brunei' found it common about the margins of 

 ponds and along the edges of streams, also at electric lights. In 

 Indiana it has been noted onlv in Marshall and Starke counties, 



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when 1 a half dozen specimens were secured in lowland meadows 

 near large lakes on July 30 and August 20, 1002. It probably 

 occurs throughout the lake region of the northern third of the 

 State and is not elsewhere recorded east of Nebraska. 



The 0. f/racile B rimer (1891, TO), a preoccupied name, is a 

 synonym. 



255. ORCIIKLIMUM SITKKIH T M Rehn & Hebard, 1915a, 7G. Superb Meadow 

 Grasshopper. 



Size large for the genus; form robust, subcompressed. Pale green; 

 tegmina, basal third of hind femora, and sometimes the fore and middle 

 femora, pale brown; dorsal stripes on prozona chocolate-brown, bordered 

 without by paler; abdomen brown above, dull yellow beneath; tibial spines 

 black, pale at base. Fastigium stout, scarcely ascending, but slightly nar- 

 rowed at base, rounded at apex. Antennae twice or more as long as body, 

 the basal joint with a rounded tubercle within. Pronotum distinctly sub- 

 sellate, male, faintly so, female, lateral lobes as long as deep, their lower 

 margin very oblique, its hind angle narrowly rounded; convex callosity 

 elongate, narrow. Tegmina surpassing hind femora about 9 mm., ex- 

 ceeded by wings 4 mm., their tips narrowly rounded. Stridulating area of 

 male shorter and no wider than disk of pronotum, its main vein nearly 

 transverse. Cercus as in key and Fig. 183, c, its middle third robust and 

 inflated, apical third subdepressed and apparently twisted, the tooth stout, 



