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iar, but without knowing to what insect it belonged. At the same time 

 all the individuals around me, whose similar day song I had heard, began 

 to respond with the night cry; the cloud passed away, and the original 

 note was resumed on all sides. Judging that they preferred the night song 

 to that of the day, from their increased stridulation during the former 

 period, I imitated the night song during the sunshine, and obtained an 

 immediate response in the same language. The experiment proved that 

 the insects could hear as well as sing. * * * The note by day is ~bzrwi 

 and lasts for one-third of a second. The night song consists of a repetition, 

 ordinarily eight times, of a note which sounds like tchiv. It is repeated at 

 the rate of five times in three-quarters of a second, making each note half 

 the length of the day note." 



214a. SCUDDERIA CURVICATJDA LATiCAUDA Brunner, 1878, 238. Broad-tailed 

 Bush-katydid. 



Larger and more robust than typical curvicauda. Color as there. 

 Pronotum larger, being both wider and nearly one-fifth longer, its side 

 margins more parallel and more broadly rounded into the lateral lobes. 

 Tegmina more narrow, nearly five times as long as greatest width. Dor- 

 sal abdominal process of male broader, the notch as in cun-icauda. Ovi- 

 positor distinctly broader and less strongly bent upward, its median and 

 basal width equal or nearly so. Length of body, $, 21 23, 9, 23 27; of 

 pronotum, $, 67, 9, 68; of tegmina, $, 3339, 9, 3640; of hind 

 femora, $, 2932.5, 9, 3035; of ovipositor, 9.511 mm. Greatest width 

 of tegmina, 7 8 mm. 



Mobile, Alabama, .July 3 (Lofliny) ; Billy's Island, Ga., June; 

 LaGrange, Fla., Sept. 13 (Davis). Brunner's types were from 

 Georgia. From Florida it has been definitely recorded only from 

 Jacksonville, Atlantic Beach, Gainesville and Live Oak, though 

 K. & H. (1914a, 28S) give its range as extending from "Wilming- 

 ton, N. Car., to San ford, Fla., and westward as far as Monticello, 

 Miss." It occurs mainly in the undergrowth of open pine woods. 

 They state also that intermediate forms connecting laticmida with 

 curvicauda have been found in numerous localities from Virginia 

 to Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas, the area of intergradation be- 

 tween the two forms being very wide. 



215. SCTJDDERIA STRTGATA Scudder, 1898, 280. Striped Bush-katydid. 



Size medium ; form very slender. Dull pale green the tegmina with 

 a blackish-brown stripe extending along the side of dorsal area from base 

 nearly to apex of each tegmen; anal area pale brown with a large blackish 

 sub-basal spot. Margins of pronotal disk yellow; upper portion of lateral 

 lobes with an obscure brown stripe. Sides of abdomen with a broad in- 

 terrupted brown stripe, this bordered above and below with a yellowish one. 

 All the femora usually flecked with dark brown. Disk of pronotum more 

 narrow than in curvicauda, its side margins broadly rounded into the lat- 

 eral lobes. Tegmina and male abdominal process as described in key. 

 Ovipositor as long as in curvicauda, bent sharply upward near basal third, 

 the ventral margin evenly and strongly curved. Length of body, $ and 



