101 



In New Jersey, according to Smith (loc. cit.),furculata is very common on 

 cranberry bogs, and destroys many of the berries. It will probably be 

 found to occur throughout Indiana near the borders of the larger ponds, 

 lakes and marshes. 



aa. Length of posterior femora 22 or 23 mm. 



3. Scuwdehia fukcata, Brunner. The Fork-tailed Katydid. 

 Scudderiafurcata, Brunner, Monog. der Phanerop., 1878. 



Bruner, Bull. Washb. Coll. Lab. Nat. Hist., I., 



1885, 127. 

 McNeill, Psyche, VI., 1891, 21. 

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

 31. 

 PlKinewptera curvkauda, Riley, Sixth Rep. St. Ent. Mo., 1874, 164, rig. 

 51. (Text in part. Not fig. 50.) 

 This is one 'of the smallest, and at the same time, our most common 

 species of the genus. The general color is a dark leaf green, the head and 

 pronotum paler; the latter without trace of yellow on its carina?. The 

 anterior margin of the pronotum is but slightly narrower than the pos- 

 terior, whereas in the two preceding species the difference in width is 

 plainly perceptible. The notch of the supra- anal spine of the male is 

 deep and rounded, forming a curious fork-like appendage, the lateral pro- 

 cesses of which are much swollen. 



Measurements: Male— Length of body, 16 mm.; of tegmina, 31 mm.; 

 of posteria femora, 23 mm.; of pronotum, 5 mm. Width of tegmina, 6 

 mm. Female— Length of body, 20 mm., of tegmina, 30 mm.; of posterior 

 femora, 22 mm.; of ovipositor, 5 mm. 



In Central and Southern Indiana the Fork-tailed Katydid is most fre- 

 quently seen on the low bushes and trees about the margin of thickets 

 and along fence rows, but in the prairie country north it frequents coarse 

 gi-asses and weeds in company with the preceding species. Its flight is 

 noisless and seemingly without direction, and is not so prolonged as that 

 of S. curvkauda. Dr. C. V. Riley (loc. tit.) gives the following account of 

 the egg laying habits otfurcata : " The female stations herself firmly by the 

 middle and hind legs on twigs or leaves contiguous to the one selected to 

 receive the eggs. This leaf is then grasped by the front feet and held in 

 a vertical position, while the edge is slightly gnawed or pared off by the 

 jaws to facilitate the entrance of the point of the ovipositor. AVhen thi 



