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bottom of La Barranca), 1 9, [Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.]; (D. L. Crawford), 

 2 c^,5 9, [A. N. S. P.]. 



Tepic, Ale.xico, 2 cf , 5 9, type and allotype, [Hebard Cln.]. 



Scudderia cuneata Morse (PI. IX, fig. 3; ]A. X, fig. 21.) 



1901. Scudderia cuneata Morse, Can. Ent., xxxiii, p. 130. [Alabama.] 

 The form of the supra-anal plate in the male of the present 

 species is distinctive but shows that the insect is related more 

 closely to S. mexicana than to any other species, from which form 

 it differs decidedly in size and general structure. In these latter 

 respects the present species much more closely resembles S. 

 furcata, and the material before us shows that although speci- 

 mens of the present species from Florida are separable through 

 somewhat larger size and heavier proportions, the insect becomes 

 smaller and slightly less robust in its northward distrilmtion. 

 As the female genital characters are practically identical with those 

 oi furcata, and as the two species are of almost exactly the same size 

 and proportions from North Carolina to Georgia and Alabama, 

 where both are fomid from the Piedmont region to the coast, 

 separation of that sex of the two species is there decidedly difficult. 

 The eyes in cuneata appear to be very slightly more rotundate 

 and prominent than in furcata, while other similarly almost in- 

 tangible characters are to be found in the contour of the tegmina 

 and in the ovipositor. 



Measurements {in millimeters) of extremes 



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