474 FAMILY VII. TETTIGOXIIDJE. THE KATYDIDS. 



mains in the leaf, retained in place, probably, by a viscid fluid that is ex- 

 uded with it. As many as five of the eggs are sometimes deposited in one 

 row in the same leaf, but more often they are single. 



"The shrill of the male is by no means so loud as that of the oblong- 

 winged katydid, Amblycorypha oblongifolia (DeGeer), in which its sound 

 is always drowned in the woods. It consists of a softer zeep, zeep, some- 

 times uttered singly, but generally thrice in succession. The call is occa- 

 sionally responded to by a faint chirp from the females, produced by 

 stretching out their wings as if for flight, and is as often heard in the 

 clay as at night." 



216a. SCUDDEBIA FURCATA cuNEATA Morse, 1901b, 130. 



Averaging slightly larger than typical furcata, but otherwise differing 

 only in the form of the fork of the decurved abdominal process of male, 

 the base of which is narrower and more compressed, the cavity of the fork 

 narrower, slightly deeper, with the processes each side compressed so that 

 their upper edge is very narrow and subacute, not swollen and subcylin- 

 drical as in ftircata. Females of the two forms absolutely inseparable. 

 Length of body, $ and 9, 1822; of pronotum, $, 56.7, 9, 4.86.4; of 

 tegmina, $ and 9, 2734; of hind femora, $, 2529, 9, 2330; of ovi- 

 positor, 6.3 7.4 mm. 



Jacksonville and Miami, Fla., Sept. 7 2 (Davis) ; Tappahan- 

 nock, Va., Sept. (Fox). The Florida specimens at hand are 

 typical cuncata as described by Morse, while the Virginia male is 

 intermediate between cuncata and furcata, the processes of ab- 

 dominal fork being more narrow and less swollen than in the lat- 

 ter, but much less compressed than in typical cnneata. In my 

 opinion cuncata is but a variety of furcata connecting the latter 

 with 8. iiic.ficana (Sauss.), a smaller and more strongly com- 

 pressed species with the lobes of the fork more deeply emarginate 

 beneath, which occurs in Texas, Arizona and along the Pacific 

 coast; the three being probably only well marked forms of one 

 widely distributed and variable species which will bear DeGeer's 

 name. 



In Florida 8. f. cnneata has been recorded from Jacksonville, 

 Gainesville, Monticello, Peusacola and Miami, Aug. 11 Oct. 14. 

 Davis (1014, 197) says: "The apical expanded portion of the anal 

 segment shows considerable variation in specimens from Florida, 

 all referred to this species." 



R. & H. (1914a, 312) give the known range of cuncata as ex- 

 tending from Raleigh, N. Car., south to Miami, Fla., and west to 

 Alabama, Morse's type having been from the latter State. "It has 

 been found to be a scarce but rather generally distributed species, 

 in the low country below the fall line in the region defined." The 

 records show that it is found principally among the undergrowth 

 of pine and other woods. Fox (1917) records it from near Nor- 



