344 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
In New England it has been taken at Norway, Me.; Seabrook, 
N. H. ; in eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and throughout 
Connecticut, on various dates from late July till well along into 
September. Extralimitally it extends to Florida, Texas, and 
Montana. 
Broad- WINGED Bush-katydid; Pistillate Bush-katydid. 
Scudderia pistillata Brunner. 
Fig. 49; Plate 14, fig. 5. 
Scudderia pistillata Brunner, Monogr. Phaner., p. 240 (1878). — ^Walden, 
Bull. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 128 (1911). 
Measurements. 
Total 
Teg. L. 
Teg. W. Wgs.>Teg. H. fern. 
Ant. 
Pron. Ovip. 
Male . . 
35-46 
26-35 
8-10 5-6.5 17-23 
25^0 
5-6.3 
Female. 
33-41 
2&-32 
8-9 3-4 19-22 
30- 
5-6 7 mm. 
Superficially this insect somewhat resembles *S. septentrionalis 
and S. curvicauda borealis. The form of the tegmina and ovi- 
positor, and the small size of the eyes are useful characters in 
distinguishing it. 
This is a boreal species whose habitat covers New England and 
extends at least from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to northern New Jer- 
sey, and as far west as Wyoming and Saskatchewan. It is 
apparently the commonest species in northern Maine, judging 
from the number of speci- 
mens in the Maine State Ex- 
periment Station, and from 
my own experience, having 
a ""- ^ 6 6/v^ taken it at Whitney ville, 
Fio. 49 -Broad-winged BuBh-katydid, Scud- HoultOU, Ft. Fairfield, OrOnO, 
deria pisMlata. iind of male abdomen, o, side ; . . 
b, dorsal view. (After Scudder.) Hoxie, and Norway. It IS 
known also from each of the 
other New England States. Dates of capture range from July 21 
to September 4. 
Rehn and Hebard speak of this species as follows : "The pres- 
ent insect, which is found in greatest numbers in the southern por- 
tions of the Canadian Zone, is usually met with in clusters of low 
bushes, such as wild rose, hazel and alder, in the open. Males are 
least active of any of the species of the genus, taking wing much 
