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15. Xiphidium brevipennk, Scudder. 



Xiphidium brevipennis, Scudder, Boston Jour. Nat. Hist., VII., 1862, 451. 

 Xiphidium brevipenne, Id., Dist. Ins. in N. Hamp., 1874, 368. 



Id., Sec. Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., 1880 Appen., 



II., 23. 

 Smith, Orth. of Maine, 1868, 145. 

 Riley, Stand. Nat. Hist., II., 1884, 180. 

 Bruner, Bull. Washb. Coll. Lab. Nat. Hist., 1885, 



I., 128. 

 Coinstock, Int. Ent., I., 18S8, 114. 

 Fernald, Orth. N. Eng., 18S8, 24. 

 Smith, Ins. of N. Jer., 1890, 411. 

 Id., Bull. 90, Ag. Coll. Exp. Stat. N. Jer., 1892, 



31, pi. II. 

 McNeill, Psyche, VI., 1891, 24. 

 Redtenbacher, Monog. der Conoceph., 1891, 206, 



pi. IV., fig. 91. 

 Osborne, Proc. la. Acad. Sci., L, 1892, 119. 

 Blatchley, Can. Ent., XXIV., 1892, 26. 

 A little shorter and thicker bodied species than X.fasciatum. Posterior 

 femora rather short and stout, unarmed beneath, or rarely with one to 

 four minute spines. Cerci of male swollen, the apex strongly compressed 

 and obtuse, armed below the middle with a rather flat, sharp-pointed 

 tooth. 



General color light reddish brown; the face and sides of pronotum 

 usually green ; stripe on occiput and disk of pronotum a very dark brown, 

 margined on each side with a narrow yellow line; ovipositor reddish 

 brown throughout. 



Measurements: Male— Length of body, 12 mm.; of tegmina, 8 mm.; 

 of posterior femora, 11.5 mm.; of pronotum, 3.5 mm. Female — Length 

 of body, 13 mm. ; of tegmina, 7.5 mm. ; of posterior femora, 11 mm. ; of 

 pronotum, 3 mm. ; of ovipositor, 9-10 mm. 



This is also an abundant species throughout the State, frequenting the 

 same localities asfasciatim and reaching maturity about a fortnight later. 

 Long- winged forms of it occasionally occur, but in Indiana they are very 

 scarce, but one or two having come under my notice. Of the variations 

 in the length of the wing covers of it and allied species Prof. Bruner has 

 well said : " That in the genera Xiphidium and Orchelimum wing length is 



