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1. Scudderia curvicauda, (DeGeer.)* 



"Locusta curvicauda, DeGeer, Mem., III., 1773, 44(i, PI. 38, fig. 3.'' 

 Phaneroptera curvicauda, Burmeister, Handbuch der Ent., II., 1838,690. 

 Scudder, Bost. Journ. Xat. Hist., VII., 1862, 448. 



(In part.) 

 Thler, in Harris' Ins. Inj. to Veg., 1862, L61. 

 (Xote. — In part.) 

 Scudderia curvicauda, Brunner, Monogr. der Phanerop., 1878. 

 Riley, Stand. Nat. Hist., II., 1884, 191. 

 Comstock, Int. to Ent., I., 1888, 118. 

 Fernald, Orth. X. EDg., 1888, 22. (In part.) 

 McNeill, Psyche, VI., 1891, 21. (Song of.) 

 Scudder, Rep. Ent. Soc. Ont., XXIIL, 1892, 68. 



(Song of.) , 



Smith, Bull. Ag. Exp. Stat, of N. J., No. 90, 1892, 

 24. 

 Phaneroptera septentrionalis, Serville, Hist. Nat. des Orth., 1839., 416. 

 Tegmina, wings and legs bright grass green; body and face somewhat 

 paler, approaching a whitish in dried specimens. Lateral carinse of the 

 pronotum with a yellowish line. Posterior femora very slender, armed 

 beneath on inner carina with three or four minute spines. 



Measurements: Male — Length of body, 22 mm.; of tegmina, 37. o mm.; 

 of wings beyond the tegmina, 6 mm.; of posterior femora, 30 mm.; of 

 pronotum, 6.5 mm. Female— Length of body 25 mm.; of posterior femora, 

 32 mm.; of ovipositor, 7 mm. Width of tegmina, 6.5 mm. 



Curvicauda is a common insect in the central and southern half of In- 

 diana, but northward seems to be replaced by S. furculaia. The former is 

 probably less arboreal than any other species of Katydid, as it is often 

 found clinging to the tall, coarse grasses and sedges which grow near the 

 borders of ponds and in damp ravines, and to the coarse weeds along the 

 margins of prairies and meadows. When approached it flies readily in a 

 zigzag, noiseless manner for a long distance to another clump of grass or 

 weeds, or to the lower branches of an oak, a tree in which it delights to 

 dwell. 



The eggs are laid in the margins of leaves between the upper and lower 

 epidermis, and are so thin that they are not noticeable except when the 

 leaf is held between one's self and the light. Of the song or note made 

 by the male of curvicauda McNeill {he. cit.) says: "The note cannot be 



*When the author of a species referred it to a different genus from that in which it is 

 now included, his name is put in parenthesis. 



