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beyond tegmina, 6 mm.; of hind femora, male, oO mm., female, 32 

 mm.; of ovipositor, 7 mm. Width of tegmina, 6.5 mm. 



Texensis is, in Indiana, one of the most common of the katydids. 

 It has been taken in Crawford, Vigo, Putnam, Henry, Wells, Fulton, 

 Marshall. Porter, Starke and Lake counties. According to Scudder, 

 it ranges over the United States east of the Great Plains. In south- 

 ern Indiana it probably reaches maturity about July 15th. The 

 earliest date on which I have taken it was July 22d, in Putnam 

 County. 



The eggs of texensis are laid in the edges of leaves between the 

 upper and lower epidermis, and at first are so thin that they are not 



Fig. 77. a. Extremity of male abdomen of iScwdderta texe/i«M Sauss.—Pict. b. Dorsal view 

 of anal segment of same. (After Scudder.) 



noticeable except when the leaf is held between one's self and the 

 light. They are loosely inserted in. these pockets made by the ovi- 

 positor 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. 



This insect is probably less arboreal than any other species of 

 katydid, as it is often found clinging to the tall, coarse grasses and 

 sedges which grow near the borders of lakes, ponds and in damp 

 ravines, and to the coarse weeds along the margins of prairies and 

 meadows. When approached, it flies rapidly in a zigzag, noiseless 

 manner for a long distance to another clump of grass or weeds, or 

 to the lower branches of an oak, a tree in which it delights to dwell. 



81. ScUDDERiA CURVICAUDA (DeGeer). The Ciirve- tailed Katydid. 



Scudderia rnrvimudu De G., 5 7, UI, 1773, 446, Plate 38. Fig. 3; 



Bninn., 38, 1878, 240; Sauss.-Pict., 136, 1897, 331, Plate 15, 



Fig. 20; Scudd., 182, 1898, 274-278, Fig. 3; Id.. 18 8, 1900. 



68. 

 Phaneroptem au(/iixtif(ili<i Harr., 7 1. 1841, 129. 



Scudderia anr/nKfifolia Scudd., 168, 1892, 67 (uote of set to music). 

 Scudderia furndata BL, 7, 1893, 100; Beut. , 3, VI, 1894, 275; Lugger, 



84, 1898, 217, Figs. 139-140. 



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