SUBFAMILY I. PIIAXEROPTERINJE. 465 



Greenport, Long Island, N. Y., Aug. 3; taken at light (Davis). 

 A very scarce species wherever found, its known range extending 



from Norway, Maine, to West Point, 

 Nebraska, and south to Yineland, N. 

 Jer. The male was figured by Lugger 

 (1898, 221) as that of Rcuddcria pis- 

 tilhita Brunner, and therefore doubt- 

 less occurs in Minnesota, though not 

 Fig. 154. Male. Natural size, definitely recorded by him. The fig- 



(After Lugger.) , , 



ure from Lugger s work was also care- 

 lessly used by me (1903, 347) as that of the male of pistiUata. 

 The species is not known from Indiana, though it probably occurs 

 about peat bogs in the Transition Zone of the northern third of 

 the State. It is not recorded from Canada or Michigan, though 

 a specimen from Lone Rock, Wis., is in the U. S. Nat. Museum. 

 The few specimens in collections throughout the eastern states 

 have mostly been taken from undergrowth in woods. The 8. trun- 

 cata Beuteumiiller (1894a, 252) is a synonym. 



212. SCUDDEEIA TEXENSIS Saussure-Pictet, 1897, 328. Texan Bush-Katydid. 

 Size large for the genus. Tegmina, wings and legs bright grass green, 

 body and face tinged with yellow, pale clay-yellow in dried specimens. 

 Pronotum much longer than broad, narrower in front than behind, usually 

 with a yellowish line along the lateral carinse. Hind femora very slender, 

 armed beneath on inner carina with three or four minute spines. Male 

 genitalia as described in key. Length of body, $, 21 25, 9, 24 28; of 

 pronotum, $ and $, 5.5 6.5; of tegmina, $, 31 39, $, 28 38; of wings 

 beyond tegmina, 6; of hind femora, $ , 26 30, $, 27 32; of ovipositor, 7 

 8mm. Width of tegmina, 6.3 8.5 mm. (Plate I.) 



This large, narrow-winged species is, in Indiana, one of the 

 most abundant of the bush-katydids, occurring everywhere 

 throughout the State, but is much less common in the southern 

 counties, where it probably reaches maturity about July 15. The 

 earliest date on which adults have been taken was July 22, in 

 Putnam County. This insect is probably less arboreal than any 

 other species of katydid, as it is often found clinging to the tall, 

 coarse grasses and sedges which grow near the borders of lakes 

 and ponds and in damp ravines, and to the coarse weeds along 

 the margins of prairies and meadows. When approached it flies 

 rapidly in a zigzag, noiseless manner for a long distance to an- 

 other clump of grass or weeds, or to the lower branches of an oak, 

 a tree in which it delights to dwell. 



Aside from Indiana specimens others are at hand from North 

 Madison. Conn., and Lake City, Gainesville, Dunedin and Ft. 

 Mvers, Fla. The two males from Lake Citv are very much smaller 



