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AN INTRODUCTION TO ENTOMOLOGY 



characteristics of the subfamilies are not repeated ; these are indicated 

 in the table above. 



Subfamily PHANEROPTERIN^ 

 The False Katydids 



Fig. 245.— 

 Micr ocen- 

 trum rhombi- 

 folium and 

 its eggs. 



To this subfamily belong certain long-horned grasshoppers that 

 have broad leaf-like wings and arboreal habits. In these respects 

 they resemble the well- 

 known katydid whose stri- 

 dent call suggested the pop- 

 ular name. Several of these 

 species have received popu- 

 lar names in which the word 

 katydid enters, as indicat- 

 ed below. These species 

 may be termed collectively 

 the false katydids; the true 



katydids constitute the next ^ig. 246.— Amblycorypha ohlongifolia. (From 

 subfamily. Lugger.) 



Blatchley ('20) describes twenty species and varieties of the false 

 katydids that are found in northeastern America; these represent 

 eight genera. Among ovir common species there are representatives 

 of three genera; these can be separated as follows. 



A. Tegmina broadened in the middle; the extreme point of the vertex much 

 broader than the first segment of the antennae. 



