208 REPORT OF STATE GEOLOGIST. 



XI. Anisomorpha Gray (1835). 



Body of male elongate, slender; that of the female much larger 

 and more robust. Head short, quadrate, horizontally attached to the 

 thorax; and eyes larger than in Diaphcromera. Antenna; shorter and 

 stouter than there, though longer than, the fore femora; the basal 

 joint but little longer and little stouter than the second. Pronotum 

 the length of the head. Mesonotum twice as long as pronotum and a 

 third longer than metanotum. Front segments of abdomen but little 

 longer than broad. Legs of nearly equal length, stout and thick, 

 shorter than in the preceding genus, unarmed. Cerci of both sexes 

 short, stout, cylindrical, projecting a little from beneath the large 

 supra-anal plate. 



Two species occur in the southern United States, one of which 

 extends northward into Indiana. 



16. Anisomorpha ferruginea (Palisot de Beauvois). The Lesser Two- 

 striped Walking-stick. 



PJmsmafermgineam Pal. de Beauv., 108, 1805-1821, 167, Plate XIV, 

 Figs. 6-7. 



AnUomorpha ferrwilnea Gray., 6 4, 1S35, 18; Burm., 40,11,1838, 570; 

 Scudd"., 172, XXVn, 1895, 30; Id., 18 8, 1900, 15; Caudell 40«, 

 XXVI, 1903, 880, 882. Plate LIX, Fig. 2. 



Color: Fuscous or ferruginous, inconspicuously striped with nar- 

 row dusky dorsal and lateral stripes; these in the female less distinct, 

 and often obsolete on a portion of the abdomen. Antennae dull red- 

 dish brown. Under side of body dull clay yellow, brownish when 

 dried. Legs brownish red. 



Head but little longer than broad. Body of female six to six and a 

 half times longer than broad; of male, about twelve times as long as 

 broad. 



Measurements: Length of head, male, 3 mm., female, 5.5 mm.; 

 of body, male, 30 mm., female, 56 mm.; of antennse, male, 22 mm., 

 female, 34 mm.; of hind femora, male, 9 mm., female, 12 mm. 



This southern Walking-stick has been taken in Indiana only near 

 Wyandotte, Ctawford County, and Grand Chain, Posey County, be- 

 ing found in large numbers in both localities. The first ones taken 

 were in Crawford County, on June 28, 1902, when the young about 

 an inch and a half long were found beneath loose flakes of bark on 

 oak and other trees. In the first week in September I again visited 

 the locality and found scores of pairs of them, all mating, beneath 

 the loose bark of old oak snags and stumps. A half-dozen or more 



