ORTHOPTERA OF INDIANA. 



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Tegmina exceeding the abdomen about one-fourth their length in 

 both sexes. Hind femora slender, reaching the tip of abdomen in 

 female, exceeding it slightly in male. Cerci of male short oblong, 

 the upper edge concave or broadly notched; the notch of sub-genital 

 plate U-shaped, about as broad as deep. 



Fig. 63. Schistocerca ahitacea Harris. Female. (After Lugger.) 



Color, yellowish brown to olive green, darker in old or dried speci- 

 mens. A narrow bright yellow line runs from the front of vertex 

 back over head, pronotum and middle of closed tegmina. Sides of 

 tegmina with often a few minute fuscous spots. Wings transparent 

 yellowish, the veins darker. Sides of abdomen with a row of black 

 dots on the hind margin of each segment. Outer face of hind femora 

 reddish brown or yellowish with a row of black dots along the upper 

 and lower margins. Hind tibise reddish; the spines yellowish, tipped 

 with black. 



Measurements: Length of body, male, 30 mm., female, 45 mm.; 

 of antennae, male and female, 16 mm.; of pronotum, male, 7 mm., 

 female, 10 mm.; of tegmina, male, 26 mm., female, 38 mm.; of hind 

 femora, male, 18 mm., female, 25 mm. 



This species has been taken only in the western half of the State 

 from Monroe County northward. It is abundant about the marshy 

 meadows and sloughs in Fulton, Lake and Starke counties, where it 



