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much longer than'f broad, narrower in front than behind, 

 and with a yellow]line along the lateral carinae. The notch 

 of the supra-anal spine is square, with a minute median 

 tooth, the lateral 'parts of notch compressed. Posterior 

 femora very slender, armed beneath on inner carina with 

 three or four minute* spines. The tip of male abdomen is 

 shown in Fig. 138. 



The eggs of this species, as well as of several others, are 

 laid one or more, in the edges of leaves, between the upper 

 and lower cuticles, in the same manner as a saw-fly deposits 

 eggs. The eggs, are loosely inserted in these pockets made 

 by the ovipositor of thc'mother, and as thc}-^ swell in com- 

 ing in contact with~the ruptured tissues of the plant they 

 are held tightly in place. 



Measurements. — Length of bod}^ 22-25 mm. : wing-cov- 

 ers, 33-37 mm. ; posterior femora, 25-27 mm. 



Scudderia furculata Brunner. 



Somewhat larger, very much like curvicauda,hnt readily 

 distinguished from it by the notch of the supra-anal spine of 

 the male, w^hich is acute, and b}^ the sides of the notch being 

 rounded, flattened at the end and compressed beneath into 

 a small flat process. The female is almost like that of 

 curvicauda ; it lacks, however, the black color at the basal 

 fold of the ovipositor. The general color is the same, but 

 the yellow carinal line of the pronotum is less distinct or 

 w^holly w^anting in furculata, and the apical third of wings 



Fig. 139. — Scudderia furculata, male. Nat- Fig. 140. — Scudderia furcu- 



ural size. Original. /afa, tip odnalcabdomen. En- 



larged. Original. 



