570 FAMILY VII. TETTIGONIID^E. THE KATYDIDS. 



occurring mostly in the tall grasses about the margins of shallow 

 ponds and low places in open pine woods. At Miami and Home- 

 stead R. & H. found the nymphs in great abundance during March 

 in the high grass of the everglades, while in July it was found to 

 be common among the grasses on several of the keys. I Minedin 

 is the most northern point at which it has been taken on the 

 vest coast. 



This is one of the smallest of our meadow grasshoppers and 

 closely resembles C. fascia tus in general fades. It is readily dis- 

 tinguished, however, by its more slender form, more reddish- 

 brown hue, with stripe of head and prouotum darker, and stripes 

 of abdomen more distinct and especially b} T the different shape 

 of lateral lobes and the longer, more tapering and more flattened 

 male cerci. 



263. CONOCEPHAIAJS BEEViPENNis (Scudder), 1862, 451. Short-winged 

 Meadow Grasshopper. 



Size medium for the genus; form rather robust. Pale reddish-brown; 

 the face and sides of pronotum usually green; stripe on occiput and disk 

 of pronotum a very dark brown, margined each side with a narrow yellow 

 line; tegmina and wings pale reddish-brown; ovipositor reddish-brown, 

 darker toward apex. In the larger specimens (ensifer Scudd.) the general 

 color is more green than brown; the sides of abdomen and fore and middle 

 femora being usually green. Fastigium scarcely ascending, its sides fee- 

 bly divergent, apex not as wide as basal joint of antennae. Lateral lobes of 

 pronotum about as long as deep, lower margin oblique, its front angle ob- 

 tuse, hind one broadly rounded; humeral sinus scarcely evident. Teg- 

 mina usually reaching bases of cerci, male, covering only two-thirds of ab- 

 domen, female, rarely fully developed. Wings slightly shorter than teg- 

 mina in the common form, exceeding them 2 3 mm. in the long-winged 

 form. Hind femora rather short, stout, usually unarmed beneath, rarely 

 with 1 4 short spines. Cerci of male as in key and Fig. 188, 7?, the apical 

 third strongly compressed and obtuse, armed behind the middle with a 

 rather flat, sharp-pointed tooth. Ovipositor straight, varying much in 

 length, rarely with a faint upward curve, the lower margin with apical 

 fifth tapering to the acute apex (Fig. 189, i.) Length of body, $ , 11 12.5, 

 9, 11 14; of pronotum, $, 3 3.5, 9, 3 4; of tegmina, short-winged, $, 

 1 10, 9, 7 8.5; of tegmina, long-winged, 9, 14; of hind femora, $, 

 1013, 9, 1113.5; of ovipositor, 914 mm. (Fig. 190.) 



Aii abundant species throughout 

 Indiana, frequenting the same local- 

 ities as fasfiatiift and reaching ma- 

 turity about a fortnight later. The 

 X. ciixifcr Scudder ( 18(52, 451), de- 



Fig. 190. Female. Natural size. 



(After Beutenmuller.) Scribed from Illinois luiS, aS SUg- 



gested by me (1903, 375), been shown to be only a large form of 



