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FAMILY VII. TETTIGONIIDJB. THE KATYDIDS. 



The body length given could easily be accounted for by the abdo- 

 men being shrunken, while geographic or individual size varia- 

 tion could easily cause the discrepancy seen in the femoral 

 length." Later on they admit that they have no exact record of 

 the occurrence of pacJti/nicrns in South Carolina and give its 

 known distribution as extending from Greensboro and Raleigh, 

 N Car., to the Ozark Mountain region of Arkansas. At Golds- 

 boro, N. Car., the species was found ''among fallen leaves of de- 

 ciduous trees in a rather open forest composed chiefly of short- 

 leaf pine." 



As already noted none of the evidence thus submitted by 

 K. & H. is, in my opinion, conclusive that the species thus fixed 

 by them is the one described by Burmeister, and the latter must 

 continue to remain a matter of question unless his types can be 

 found and compared with our different forms. 



277. ATLANTICUS DAVISI Rehn & Hebard, 1916a, 58. Davis's Shield-bearer. 

 Slightly smaller and more slender than testaceus. Male usually dark 

 sooty brown flecked everywhere with grayish; apical third of hind femora 

 paler, yellow line on lower border of pronoturn indistinct or wanting. Fe- 

 male dull reddish- or yellowish-brown; posterior lobe of pronoturn, dorsum 

 of abdomen and ovipositor dark brown; face often with a blackish spot be- 

 low each eye; sides of pronotum with obsolete fuscous markings. Fas- 

 tigiuni slightly narrower than eye, feebly declivent. Disk of pronotum 

 shorter than in testaceus, its lateral carinse not as sharp as there, converg- 

 ing from base to apical third, then feebly diverging to apex, its greatest 

 width two-thirds its length, hind margin subtruncate, its angles broadly 

 rounded (Fig. 194, c); lateral lobes two-thirds longer than deep, lower 

 margin straight, obtusely rounded into front one, hind margin oblique, fee- 



Fig. 197. a, Male of Atlanticus darisi, X l -7> b, tip of male abdomen of A. gibbosus, 

 showing form of cereal tooth. (After Caudell.) 



bly sinuate. Tegmina of male exposed a distance equal to about one-half 

 that of width of hind margin of pronotum, their tips well rounded. Hind fe- 

 mora with lower inner margin often armed with one to four very short 

 spines. Male with cerci rather short, feebly curved, the basal portion stout, 

 apical third much less so; the tooth at apical two-fifths short, slightly in- 

 bent (Fig. 195, i) ; subgenital plate with a triangular notch; styles short, 

 stout. Female with notch of subgenital plate very narrowly V-shaped; ovi- 



