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9. Scudderia furcata. Fig. 8. 



Scudderia furcata Brunn., Mon. Phaneropt., 239, pi. 5, fig. 72 a (1878). 



« " Blatchl. ! , Proc. Ind. Acad. Sc, 1892, 101-102 (1894). 



« " Beut.! , Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., VI., 275 (1894). 



« « Sauss.-Pict., Biol. Centr. Amer., Ortb., 328, 329, 331, 



pi. 15, figs. 16, 17 (1897). 



? Gryllus (Locustd) myrtifolius Drury [nee Linn.], 111. Nat. Hist., II., 



78, pi. 41, fig. 2 (1773). 

 Locusta myrtifolia Fabr., Syst. Ent., 282 (1775). 



Phaneroptera curvicauda Burm. ! [nee De Geer], Handb. Ent., II., 



690 (1838). 



Scudderia angustifoUa Blatcbl.! [nee Harr.], Proc. Ind. Acad. Sc., 



1892, 102-103 (1894). 



« " Beut.!, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., VI., 276 



(1894). 



Scudderia fasciata Beut.!, Loc. cit., VI., 276 (1894). 



Stal, on study of Linne's type, finds his Gryllus myrtifolius (1758) to 

 be a Ctenopblebia. Fabricius described his Locusta myrtifolia as the 

 same, and Brunner accordingly quotes him in his synonymy of Cten. 

 myrtifolia; but Fabricius' description ("anus maris lamina clavata, 

 furcata ") hardly allows this, and is very descriptive of the present spe- 

 cies, to which it is also probable, but not so certain, that Drury's earlier 

 figure from New York belongs. 



I saw Burmeister's type of his Plian. curvicauda in the Berlin 

 Museum more than thirty years ago, and made a drawing with notes of 

 its characteristic anal segment ; his description also applies well to this 

 species only. 



This is the most widely spread of any of the species of Scudderia, and 

 appears to be tolerably common everywhere. The form fasciata, de- 

 scribed as a distinct species by Beutenmiiller, is one in which the princi- 

 pal longitudinal veins of the tegmina are marked heavily with fuscous, a 

 feature repeated in several species of the genus. 



Montreal, Canada, Lyman (S. H. S.). Maine (t. Brunner); Norway, 

 Oxford Co. (M. C. Z., Morse) ; and Deering (Morse) and Brunswick, 

 Packard (M. C. Z., S. H. S.), Cumberland Co., Me. White Mts., 

 Valleys (S. H. S., Sprague), N. H. Brandon, Rutland Co., Vt , up- 

 lands (S. H. S.). Adams, Berkshire Co. (Morse) ; Princeton, Worces- 

 ter Co. (S. H. S.); Beverly, Burgess (S. H. S.), and Gloucester 

 (Sprague), Essex Co. ; Sherborn (Morse), Cambridge (M. C. Z.), and 



