SUBFAMILY ACRIDINAE 95 
trees, three or four feet above the ground.’ Scudder is inclined to 
consider coniferous trees as its most normal habitation. 
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PHORTALIO PES: Scudd: 
Body rather elongate, slender, slightly compressed, very teebly 
pilose, including faintly the tegmina and legs. Head large, full, prom- 
inent, relatively elongate, nearly half as long again as the long prozona, 
the space behind the eyes fully half as long as the breadth of the eyes, 
the genae a little tumescent, the head, apart from the eyes, slightly 
broader than the pronotum; vertex prominent and well-arched, both 
longitudinally and transversely; face a little oblique; eyes rounded, 
broad, oval, moderately prominent, subtruncate anteriorly, moderately 
distant, somewhat farther apart than the greatest width of frontal 
costa; fastigium very faintly sulcate, almost plane; frontal costa prom- 
inent, markedly narrower above than below the ocellus; antennz slen- 
der, moderately long, but shorter than the hind femora, though fully 
twice as long as the pronotum. Pronotum of moderate length, faintly 
subsellate but otherwise equal, feebly flaring in front to receive the 
head; disk rounded, subtectate, with broadly rounded, very indistinct 
lateral carinae and a sharp, equal, and percurrent, median carina; 
prozona longitudinal, nearly half as long again as the metazona, with 
indistinct transverse sulci; front margin subtruncate, hind margin 
extremely obtuse-angulate. Prosternal spine rather large, erect, con- 
ical, and blunt. Mesosternal interspace much (male) or slightly 
(female) longer than broad; metasternal lobes attingent (male) or 
approximate (female). Tegmina either abbreviate, broad, lanceolate, 
attingent, slightly longer than the pronotum, or fully developed, sur- 
passing the hind femora, rather broad and equal with well-rounded 
tip. Hind femora long and slender, the genicular lobes pallid, with a 
transverse, dusky basal stripe; hind tibiae glaucous or sometimes yel- 
lowish, with 11 to 13 spines in the outer series. Abdomen compressed, 
mesially carinate, apically clavate and recurved in the male, subgenital 
plate narrow and long, with the lateral margins ampliate at base, apical 
margin mesially pinched but not elevated, no subapical tubercle ; furcula 
consisting of a pair of short, slender, widely separated teeth, nearly 
parallel; cerci compressed, styliform, and rather small. A monotypic, 
though dimorphic, genus, very similar and closely related to Melano- 
plus. 
Phoetaliotes nebrascensis Thom. 
Phoetaliotes nebrascensis has, as vet, been taken in Minnesota 
only in the short-winged form, P. 1. nebrascensis. The long-winged 
