Total 
Teg. L. 
Teg. W. 
Wgs.>Teg. H. fern. 
Ant. Pron. 
Male . . 
44^8 
33-38 
7.5-8 
5.5-6 26-30 
40-? 5.5-6 
Female . 
43^7 
33-38 
7.5-8 
5.5-6 26-30 
35-40 5.5-6 
MORSE: ORTHOPTERA OF NEW ENGLAND. 343 
Texan Bush-katydid. 
Scudderia texensis Saussure and Pictet. 
Fig. 48; Plate 14, fig. 8. 
Scudderia texensis Saussure and Pictet, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Orth., vol. 1, 
p. 330 (1897).— Walden, BuU. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 126 
(1911). 
Measurements. 
Ovip. 
7mm. 
This is a common large Bush-katydid, the males of which may 
be distinguished at once by the concave tip of the anal plate; the 
females are likely to be confused with those of S. curvicauda 
until after critical study of sufficient material. 
Rehn and Hebard state that it "is almost invariably found in 
or near marsh, swamp, or bog." It is one of the few notably 
destructive species, damaging cranberries especially, on the bogs 
of New Jersey, by eating 
into the berries in order to 
get the seeds. Rehn and 
Hebard report it as locally 
abundant after dark along 
the salt-marshes of New Jer- 
SeV "in areas of ScirpUS Fig. 48. — Texan Bush-katydid, ScWdma /eien- 
. , , , , sis. End of male abdomen, a, side; 6, dorsal 
restmg head down and mo- view. (After Scudder.) 
tionless near the tips of these 
rushes and frequently beaded with dew. On bright warm after- 
noons it was observed in the taller vegetation near the border of 
the salt-marshes, where the males were moving actively about 
emitting their rather prolonged and harsh stridulation." 
The eggs "are laid in the edges of leaves between the upper and 
lower epidermis, and at first are so thin that they are not notice- 
able except when the leaf is held between one's self and the light. 
They are loosely inserted in these pockets made by the ovipositor 
of the mother, and as they swell in coming in contact with the 
ruptured tissues of the plant, they are held tightly in place. The 
winter of this, as well as of the other species of the genus, is passed 
in the egg stage, the young appearing about the last of April" 
(Indiana — Blatchley) . 
