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much as in decants, the subapical inner ridges less distinct, converging as 

 there; the basal third of lateral margins incised and overlapping (Fig. 

 128, c.) Cerci very slender, the middle less than half the width of base, 

 the apical third feebly widened, incurved and slightly grooved on outer 

 face, its lower portion expanded and flattened to form a blunt lobe, the 

 tip subtruncate and feebly emarginate (Fig. 127, c.) Subgenital plate 

 much as in australis. Length of body, $, 18.5 20.6; of antennae, 9.5 10.5; 

 of pronotum, 4.5; of tegmina, 4 4.2; of hind femora, 11 11.5 mm. 



Magnolia, S. Car., Sept. 5 (Hclxird). Scudder's types Avere 

 taken in November at Smithville, N. Car. Morse has recorded it 

 from Denmark, S. Car., and R. & H. (1916, 216) from Sullivan 

 Island, Magnolia and Ashley Junction, S. Car., and Augusta, Ga. 

 It occurs among low shrubs and grasses in swampy depressions in 

 pine woods. The elongate, slender body, form of male cerci, 

 shorter and broader subgenital plate and black sides of abdomen 

 separate it from australis, to which it is otherwise very closely 

 related. Only adult males have been recorded, though nymphs of 

 both sexes were secured by R. & H. in July and August. 



163a. MELAXOPLUS ATTENUATUS HEBARDI (Rehn), 1906, 235. Hebard's 

 Short-winged Locust. 



Darker than attenuates, dorsum and sides of abdomen often with a 

 row of large pale spots. Prozona slightly longer; metazona more coarsely 

 rugose. Tegmina shorter, more widely separated, their tips more rounded. 

 Basal lateral margins of supra-anal plate more swollen and thickened, the 

 median sulcus percurrent. "Tegmina about four-fifths the length of pro- 

 notum, subovate, the greatest width two-thirds the length, apical section 

 rounded, subtruncate, separated above by a space equal to the width of 

 frontal costa. Supra-anal plate elongate-triangular with sides in more 

 than distal half straight, convergent, its surface very decidedly flattened 

 with median sulcus less pronounced than in decorus and distal convergent 

 ridges subobsolete (Fig. 128, d.) Furcula as described in key. Cerci 

 tapering in the proximal half, slender mesad, distinctly expanded distad, 

 rounded dorsad, and with a rectangulate lobule ventrad, the distal half 

 distinctly bent mesad, and falling slightly short of the tip of supra-anal 

 plate (Fig. 127, d.) Length of body, $, 22; of pronotum, 5; of tegmina, 

 3.6; of hind femora, 12.5." (ReTin.) 



A comparison of a male taken by Fox at Macon, Ga., with the 

 types of both attenuates and JiclHirdi showed that the two are 

 very similar, differing only in the minor characters given above 

 and in the key. The Macon specimen shows intermediate char- 

 acters, the furcula closely resembling those of attenuates, the 

 cerci those of Jiebardi. As the two forms occur in the same gen- 

 eral region and but few specimens of either are as yet known, 

 there is little doubt but that fiebardi will prove to be only a vari- 

 ety or race of attenuates, and I have so placed it. 



