546 FAMILY VII. TETTIGONIIDJE. THE KATYDIDS. 



35; of pronotum, $, 4.35, 5, 4.7; of tegmina, $, 19 23, 9, 19 21; of 

 hind femora, $ , 12 14, 9, 15.5 17; of ovipositor 10 mm. 



In Indiana this species has been found only in the northern 

 counties, where it is quite common in damp prairies, meadows and 

 marshes, and begins to reach maturity about July 10. A pair 

 were found mating in Marshall County on July 20. 



The range of gladiator is almost as great as that of vulyare, 

 but it is nowhere as common as that species. It is known from 

 Montreal and New England west to Washington and northern 

 California, and south and southwest to New Jersey, Tennessee 

 and northeastern Kansas. Walker (1910, 352) redescribed the 

 male from Ashdown, Manitoba as 0. mamtobense. It is not re- 

 corded definitely from Michigan and in Ohio only from Cedar 

 Point. Specimens are at hand from Algonquin, 111. (Xason.) 

 Walden does not include it in his Orthoptera of Connecticut, 

 though it had been taken in that State by Morse in 1894. It has 

 been erroneously recorded a number of times as 0. vulgare, but the 

 females are easily separated by the form of the ovipositor and 

 the males by the long tooth of cercus and the very feeble humeral 

 sinus. 



249. OBCHELIMUM PULCHELLUM Davis, 1909, 33. Handsome Meadow 

 Grasshopper. 



Size medium; form moderately robust. Pale green; head often in 

 great part reddish, face yellow; pronotum with the usual dorsal dark 

 stripe; sides bottle green; under surface yellow, Fhat of abdomen notably 

 so; femora lemon-yellow below and within, the apical third of hind pair 

 reddish; tibia? of all the legs reddish, tarsi fuscous. Fastigium narrow, 

 its apical half scarcely wider; eyes very prominent. Pronotum short, subsel- 

 late, metazona less than one-half the length of prozona; lateral lobes 

 deeper than long, lower margin short, its hind angle narrowly rounded; 

 humeral sinus evident but shallow. Tegmina with apical half strongly 

 tapering, surpassing hind femora 3 mm. exceeded by wings the same dis- 

 tance. Cerci as in key and Fig. 179, e, its upper outer edge raised in an 

 obtuse carina and apical half oblique, concave within, the tip obtuse. 

 Notch of subgenital. plate broadly V-shaped, the styles very short, obtuse. 

 Ovipositor rather wide, moderately curved, distinctly more than half the 

 length of hind femora, its apex slightly surpassing the tips of tegmina 

 (Fig. 180, e.) Length of body, $, 1819, 9. 18.322.8; of pronotum, $, 

 5, 9, 4.25.7; of tegmina, $, 2023, 9, 18.728.3; of hind femora, $, 

 1618, 9, 15.3 19.2; of ovipositor, 911 mm. 



Helnietta, Dennisville and Jamesburg, N. Jer., Sept. 5 21 

 (Davis) ; Tappahaunock, Va., Sept. 19 (Foar) ; Eosslyu, Va., Sept. 

 12 (CfttirtcU). Described from the first two localities above men- 

 tioned, where Davis found them on the tall grass in a very wet 

 swamp. 



