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is done the abdomen is curved under and brought forward, and the ovi- 

 positor is seized on its convex edge by the mandibles and maxilla? , which, 

 with the aid of the palpi, guide the point to that portion of the leaf pre- 

 pared to receive it. After gentle, but repeated efforts, the point of the 

 instrument is finally inserted between the tissues of the leaf, and gradu- 

 ally pushed in to more than half its length. As soon as the cavity is 

 formed, the egg is extruded, and passed slowly between the semi-trans- 

 parent blades of the ovipositor. As the egg leaves the ovipositor the latter 

 is gradually withdrawn, while the egg remains in the leaf, retained in its 

 place, probably, by a viscid fluid that is exuded with it. As many as 

 five of the eggs are sometimes deposited in one row in the same leaf but 

 more often they are single." 



This is the most common species of the genus, in the United States, and 

 is quite widely distributed over the country from the Atlantic to the Pa- 

 cific. In Indiana it has been found in numbers in every county in which 

 collections have been made. The first mature specimens appear about 

 August 5th but it does not become plentiful before the middle of the 

 month. 



acta. Length of posterior femora less than 20 mm. 

 4. Scudderu angustifolia i Harris). The Narrow-winged Katydid. 

 Phaneroptera angustifolia Harris' Ins. Inj. to Veg., 1862, 161, hg. 76. 

 Scudderia angustifolia, Brunner, Monog. der Phanerop.,1878. 

 Smith, Cat. Ins. N. J., 1890, 410. 

 Scudder, Pep. Ent. Soc. I >nt. X X III., 1892. (Note 

 of set to music.) 

 Phaneroptera curvicauda, Uhler in Harris' Ins. Inj. to Veg., 1862, L61. 

 (Note. In part.) 

 Scudder, Bost. Journ. Nat Hist., VII., 1862, \\s. 



(In part.) 

 Id., Am. Nat. II., 1868, 117, (Song of.) 

 Id., Distrib. Ins. N. Hamp., 1874, 366. (Son- of 



set to music.) 

 Eiley, Sixth Rep. St. Ent. Mo. 1874, 164, fig. :.(). 

 (Not text nor fig. 51.) 

 Scudderia curvicauda Fernakl, Orth. N. Eng., 1888, 22. (In part.) 

 (Not Scudderia curvicauda), (DeGeer.) 



