342 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Northern Bush-katydid. 
Scudderia septentrionalis (Serville). 
Figs. 46, 47; Plate 14, figs. 3, 4. 
Phaneroptera septentrionalis Serville, Hist. Nat. Ins., Orthopt., p. 416 
(1839). 
Scvdderia septentrionalis Wajjden, Bull. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 
129 (1911). 
Size small. Tegmina broad throughout, well rounded at apex 
and on front margin, with dull surface. Last dorsal abdominal 
segment of male truncate, with obtuse-angulate hind margin. 
Ovipositor long and regularly arcuate. 
Measurements. 
Total 
Body 
Teg. L. 
Teg. W. Wgs. > Teg. H. fern. 
Ant. Pron. Ovipositor 
Male . . 
37 
27 
7.5 5.5 18.6 
37+ 4.8 
Female . 
20 
26.5 
7.5 ' 18.5 
5 8.75 X 2.5 mm. 
This is an exceedingly rare species of which but few examples 
are known. Both sexes may be recognized at once, the female 
by the exceptionally long, evenly curved ovipositor, the male 
46 
Fig. 46. — Northern Bush-katydid, Scudderia septentrionalis. Male. (After Lugger.) 
Fig. 47. — The same; female. (After Lugger.) 
by the lack of any elongate process on the anal segment of the 
abdomen. 
It has been found in July and August in Maine, Massachusetts, 
New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Nebraska. Two specimens are 
reported as having been captured in woods, or on undergrowth in 
woods; aside from these instances no data on its habits are 
known. 
