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roadsides where it delights to rest on the low shrubs, blackberry bushes, 

 or coarse weeds usually growing in such localities. On the sunny after- 

 noons of mid-autumn it is especially abundant on the lower parts of the 

 rail and board fences, the male uttering his faint and monotonous love 

 call— a sort of ch-e-e-e-c — ch-e-e-e-e, continuously repeated the female but 

 a short distance away, a motionless, patient, and apparently attentive 

 listener. "When in coitu the male does not mount the back of the female, 

 but, with his body reversed, is dragged about by her, this being the com- 

 mon practice of all the species of Xiphidium and Orchelimum. Nemorale 

 has been recorded only from Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois and seems to be 

 confined to the northern half of the middle United States. 



aa. Ovipositor equal to fir longer than the body. 

 </. Length of posterior femora almost equal to that of ovipositor. 

 e. Body rather stout; the tegmina always covering more than half 

 the abdomen. 

 /. Abdomen with the dorsal surface light brown, the sides green, 

 or greenish yellow. 



17. Xiphidium knmfkium, Scudder. 



Xiphidium ensifer, Scudder, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., VII., 1862, 451. 

 Xiphidium ensiforme, Id., Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., 1S76, 



II., 261. 

 Xiphidium ensiferum, Id., Sec. Rep. IT. S. Ent. Comm., 1880, Appen II., 23. 

 Riley, Stand. Nat. Hist., II., 1884, 186. 

 Comstock, Int. to Ent., I., 1888, 114. 

 Wheeler, Insect Life, II., 1890, 222. (Oviposition 



of.) 

 McNeill, Psyche, VI., 181)1, 24. 

 Redtenbacher, Monog. der Conoceph., 1891, 209. 

 Very similar in general appearance to A', brevipenne, Scudder, and may 

 be only a variety of that species. Typical examples are larger with a 

 much longer ovipositor. The general color is also more of a green than in 

 brevipenne; the face, sides of pronotum and abdomen, and the four an- 

 terior femora being of that hue. The tegmina and wings are light, red- 

 dish brown, as are also the tibise and ovipositor; the latter becoming a 

 deeper brown towards the apex. Cerci of male rather stout, with the 

 apical half curved slightly outward and depressed. Ovipositor slender, 

 straight. 



