SUBFAMILY VII. RIIAF1IIDOPHORIN.3D. 62 f 



297. CEUTHOPHILUS XJHLERI Scudder, 18G2, 435. Uhler's Camel Cricket. 



Size medium or above; form robust; surface dull, smooth. Pale red- 

 dish-brown or clay yellow, irregularly flecked with fuscous, especially on 

 pronotum and abdomen, the female and young somewhat darker; legs pale 

 brown, apical portions of femora more or less infuscated. Vertex strongly 

 de flexed, ending in a compressed triangular cone. Fore femora more than 

 a third longer than pronotum, male, one-fourth longer, female. Hind fe- 

 mora of male longer than body, the apical half of outer face scabrous with 

 numerous small projections; of female, shorter, almost smooth; lower sul- 

 cus in mature males usually exceptionally broad and shallow, its outer 

 carina with seven to nine very unequal irregularly spaced spines, the mid- 

 dle two slightly the larger; inner carina armed with 16 to 20 small teeth; 

 lower sulcus in female much less broad, the inner carina with numerous, 

 the outer with only a few small teeth. Hind tibia? slightly longer than the 

 corresponding femora in both sexes. Male with supra-anal plate strongly 

 deflexed, triangular, grooved at middle, its apex broadly rounded; sub- 

 genital plate emarginate at apex, deeply cleft, the tip of each lobe thick- 

 ened, suberect or obliquely rounded (PL VI, e.) Outer valves of ovipositor 

 with tips considerably upturned, their lower margins strongly tapering to 

 the acute apex; inner valves armed as in key and PI. VII, o, the terminal 

 hook short, sharp, strongly uncinate or decurved. Length of body, $, 

 13.5 15.5, 9, 1316; of pronotum, $, 4.86, 9, 4.65.3; of fore femora, 

 $, 6.58, 9, 67.3; of hind femora, $, 1518, 9, 1314.5; of hind tibiae, 

 $, 15.319, 9, 1516; of ovipositor, 89.5 mm. (Fig. 208.) 



Vigo, Putnam and 

 Marion counties, Tnd., 

 Aug. -.1 Nov. IT; 

 I \V. H.R.) ; Alexan- 

 dria Co., Ya.. Sept. '24 

 I /></?/*) In central 

 Indiana ithlcri is one 

 of the more common 

 species of C<'utli<>i>ln- 



1ns. It is usually found from July to November in small colonies 

 of three to six or more, beneath rails and logs in rather dry situa- 

 tions, being especially fond of low, open second bottom woods, 

 with a loamy or sandy soil. The yonng have been taken in similar 

 places in December and February, but evidently the larger num- 

 ber of eggs do not hatch until spring. It has not, as yet, been 

 taken in either the northern or southern third of the State, but 

 probably occurs throughout. 



After a careful study of Scudder's types of both forms, as 

 well as of a number of paratypes of each named for me by him, I 

 have placed his C. WatcJileyl (181)4, 57) as a synonym of iililcri, 

 it" having been based on immature males, in which the hind femora 



