THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. .'i.')! 



THE ORTHOPTERA OF WESTERN CANADA. 



BY THE EDITOR. 



(Continued from page 340.) 

 Family Locustid.*. 



Subfamily Phaneropterin^. 



91. Scudderia pistillata Brunn. 



MAN. — Aweme, Aug. 26, 1904, i $. (Griddle.) Also recorded 

 from Winnipeg by Scudder (Pr. Am. Acad. Arts Sc , XXXIII, 



p. 277, 1898). 

 SASK. — Regina, Aug. 11, 1902, i ^■, Aug. 16, 1903, i 9- 

 (Willing.) Aug. 14, 1906, \ ^. (J. A. Reid.) 



92. Scudderia curvkauda (De Geer). 



MAN. — Aweme, Sept. 15, 1907, 4 ^'s. (Griddle.) 



Subfamily Conocephalinae. 



93. Orchelimurn Manitobense^ n. sp. 



Nearly allied to 0. vulgare; but diftering in the smaller head, 

 shorter pronolum, shallower elytral sinus, longer tooth borne by 

 the male cerci, and less distinct brown stripe 

 on the head and pronotum. 



Male : Size a little smaller than O. 

 vulgare; head of moderate size, fastigium 

 of the vertex slightly elevated, somewhat 

 less broadly rounded in profile than in vul- p,^. j- _q Manito- 

 srare, the apex well rounded, almost as broad i>ense max^- he^d 



o" ' r ' and proiiotuni. 



as the base of the first antennal joint, 

 without a depression above, narrowed below where it comes 

 in contact with the fastigium of the face. Eyes of the same 

 relative size and prominence as in vulgare ; antennae about three 

 times as long as the hind femora. Pronotum rather short, feebly 

 flaring in front, anterior margin subtruncate, posterior margin 

 broadly arcuate. Disk nearly flat, principal sulcus distinctly 

 impressed, metazona nearly two-thirds the length of the prozona, 

 faintly punctate, with a shallow depression on each side of the 

 middle line ; lateral angles distinct only on the metazona, well 

 rounded. Depth of lateral lobes about equal to their ltn;^ili 



November, 1910 



