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to the pronotal length, green, especially in the costal area where it is 

 coriaceous like the tegmina; tegmina narrow, slightly over five times 

 as long as broad, at the widest point being very slightly broader than 

 the pronotal length, the posterior margin barely concave; first radial 

 branch two or three forked and joined near the base to the ulnar vein 

 by a diagonal cross vein. Legs slender, the posterior femora just 

 reaching the tips of the closed tegmina; spine of anterior coxa long 

 and sharp; anterior tibiae with open foramen on each face; all the 

 tibiae sulcate dorsally and armed on both ventral margins with several 

 black spines of moderate size; above the intermediate and posterior 

 tibiae also bear sharp black spines on both margins, only one to three 

 on the cephalic margin of the middle ones, and on that margin there 

 is no apical spine, as there is on the opposite margin and on both 

 margins of the hind tibiae; anterior tibiae wholly unarmed on the 

 dorso-cephalic margin, the opposite margin with a basal spine (often 

 very small) near the lower margin of the foramen, a terminal spine 

 and from one to three additional ones at irregular intervals between 

 the above; posterior femora armed beneath on both margins with 

 several black triangular teeth, the fore and middle ones with from 

 none to two very minute teeth on the caudal margin beneath and 

 the anterior ones may have one or two exceedingly minute teeth on 

 the ventro-cephalic margin; posterior genicular lobes very briefly 

 but acutely pointed, the others rounded. 



Abdomen with the segments evenly truncate except the terminal 

 one, which is slightly prolonged and apically broadly notched, as 

 shown in figure 1, c; subgenital plate greatly prolonged and up- 

 curved, as in Phaneroptera (= Scudderia), without apical styles 

 but the latero-apical angles roundly tubercular, the apex notched; 

 supraanal plate elongate-triangular, deeply concave above; cerci 

 heavy, about twice as long as the last dorsal segment of the abdomen, 

 subcylindrical, tapering moderately to about the middle and then 

 again growing stouter to the noticeably swollen apex, where there is 

 a heavy, sharply pointed and inwardly directed tooth about a third 

 as long as the body of the cercus. (See fig. 1, b and c.) 



Type Inscudderia taxodii, sp. nov. 



Inscudderia taxodii, sp. nov. 



This is undoubtedly one of the most distinct species of Orthoptera, 

 and that such a striking katydid inhabiting the southeastern United 

 States should so long escape notice is indeed remarkable. 



