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ORTHOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT. 



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over the United States and Canada, except on the highest eleva- 

 tions. The adults appear about the first of July and are found 

 until frost. 



Spharagemon Scudder. 



Body slender, somewhat compressed. Head somewhat 

 swollen dorsally. Vertex with the lateral carinas converging more 

 rapidly than in Dissosteira. Median carina faint or wanting. 

 Lateral foveolae more distinct than in Dissosteira. Frontal costa 

 narrow, sulcate around and below the ocellus. Antennae about 

 as long as hind femora, slightly flattened towards the base. Pro- 

 notum with the disk much as in Dissosteira. The median carina 

 prominent, usually high and deeply cut in front of the middle 

 by a narrow notch. Tegmina considerably surpassing the ab- 

 domen in both sexes, the intercalary vein less prominent than in 

 the previous genus and nearer the median than the ulnar vein. 

 Inner wings with the base yellow, bordered by a dark median 

 band. Hind femora rather stout, nearly reaching (female) or 

 surpassing (male) the end of the abdomen. Hind tibiae in our 

 species with considerable red. 



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Fig. 29. a. Spharagemon bolli, female, b. Spharagemon collare scudderi, female, c. 

 Spharagemon saxatile, female. Lateral view, and disk, of pronotum. 



Key to Species. 



1. Pronotum with the hind margin about right-angled. 



Notch in median carina vertical 2 



Pronotum with the hind margin acute-angled. Notch 

 of median carina oblique, the sides often overlapping 

 (Fig. 29b) collare var. 



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