278 STUDIES IN AMERICAN TETTIGONIIDAE (oRTHOPTERa) 



species from West Point, Nebraska, to which he has referred with- 

 out a name.'' 



The present insect is readily separated in the male sex from all 

 others of the genus by the triangular and simple disto-dorsal 

 abdominal segment, and in the female by its small size and dull 

 leaf-like tegmina accompanied by an extraordinarily long and 

 gently curved ovipositor. The tegminal veinlets are heavier 

 than in the other species of the genus excepting S. pistiUata, to 

 which insect the present species shows some approach in this re- 

 spect as well as in its short heavj'' structure. 



Measurements {in millimeters) 



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Marion, West Point, 



Massachusetts Nebraska 



Length of body 18.4 18 



Length of pronotum 4.7 4.7 



Length of tegmen 28 25.2 



Greatest width of tegmen 7 7.3 



Length of caudal femur 19.4 IS. 1 



Length of subgenital plate 5.4 57 



The present insect has been found on the Atlantic coast from 

 Norway, Maine, to Vineland, New Jersey, and has been taken as 

 far west as West Point, Nebraska. The species is unquestionably 

 one of the very scarcest forms of North American Orthoptera 

 having a distribution so extensive. 



Specim.ens Examined. — In addition to 3 males and 2 females previously 

 recorded: 3; 3 males. 



Marion, Massachusetts, VIII, 1906, (H.; undergrowth in woods), 1 cT. 



Lone Rock, Wisconsin, VII, 27, 1906, fJ. D. Hood), 1 c^, [U. S. N. M.]. 



West Point, Nebraska, VII, 27, 1887, (L. Bruner; in woods), 1 cf , [He- 

 bard Cln.]. 



Scudderia pistillata Brunner (PL IX, fig. 8; pi. X, fig. 24; pi. XI, fig. 30.) 

 1878. Sc[ucldcria] pistillata Brunner, Monogr. Phaner., p. 240. [New 

 York; New Hampshire.] 



Lugger unfortunately confused this species with S. septen- 

 trionalis and his figures which are credited to the present species 

 belong in fact to that insect.^ The male figure has agam been 

 used most unfortunately in Blatchley's treatment of pistillata in 

 his Orthoptera of Indiana,^ but there it is accompanied by Scud- 



7 Publ. Nebr. Acad. Sci., iii, p. 29, (1893). 



8 Orth. of Minn., p. 220, figs. 144, 145, (1898). 

 3 Orth. of Indiana, p. 347, fig. 79, (1903). 



