ORTHOPTEKA OF INDIANA. 373 



— Length of body, l-i mm.; of tegmina, 16 mm,.; of hind femora, 13 

 mm.; of OAapositor, 8 mm. 



This handsome meadow grasshopper is abundant throughout the 

 State in timothy and clover meadows and especially so about small 

 streams in low ground, blue-gi'ass pastures. It is one of the first of 

 the Loeustid?e to reach maturity, specimens having been taken in 

 Vigo County as early as July 5th, and it may be found until mid- 

 Oct9ber. The note of the male is very faint — a kind of zr-r-r-r long 

 drawn out. 



Fasciatum has, perhaps, the widest distribution of any of our 

 American Loc'ustidse, its. range, according to Eedtenbacher, being 

 from British America to Buenos Ayres, S. A. 



The Orclielimum gracUe of Harris, usually quoted as a synonym of 

 X. fasciatum, has been shown by Bruner (loc. cit.) to be a distinct 

 and valid species. 



95. XiPHiDiUM BREViPENNE Soudder. The Short-winged Meadow Grass- 

 hopper. 

 XiphidiMmbrevipennisScxidd., 14 1, VII, 1862, 451; Beut., 3, VI, 1894, 



283, Plate VI, Fig. 6. 

 Xiphidium brevipenne Scudd., 14 8, 1874, 368; Id., 183, XXX, 1898, 

 184; Id., 188, 1900, 74; Riley, 122, n, 1884, 186; Oomst., 4 1' 

 I, 1888, 114; Redtenb., 1 10, 1891, 206, Plate IV, Fig. 91; BL, 

 7, 1893, 121; Lugg., 8 4, 1898, 239. 



A little shorter and thicker bodied species than X. fasciatum. 

 Posterior femora rather short and stout, unarmed beneath, or rarely 

 with one to four minute spines.. Cerci of male swollen, the apex 

 .strongly compressed and obtuse, armed below the middle with a 

 rather flat, sharp pointed tooth. 



General color: Light reddish brown; the face and sides of pro- 

 notum usually green; stripe on occiput and disk of pronotum a very 

 dark brown, margiiied on each side 

 with a narrow yellow line; tegmina 

 and wings a light reddish brown; ovi- 

 positor reddish brown throughout, 

 darker toward the apex. 



Measurements: Male — Length of Fig. 93. Jiphidium brevipenne Scudd 

 body, 11 mm.; of tegmina, 7 mm.; of f'^'"''^?; N^tirai size. (AfterBeu- 



■ ' " tenmuller.) 



posterior femora, 10 mm.; of prono- 

 tum, 3 mm. Female — Length of body, 11-18 mm.; of tegmina, short 

 winged form, 7 mm.; of posterior femora, 11 mm.; of pronotum, 3 

 mm.; of ovipositor, 10 mm. 



This is also an abundant species throughout the State, frequenting 

 the same localities as fasciatum and reaching maturity about a fort- 



