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up backward as does the female, nor do I think he possesses this 

 power; and he certainly has not the remarkable power, which she 

 possesses, of setting up or depressing at will the mesonotal sub-seg- 

 ments, for his thorax is quite differently constructed. 



THE 



NARROW-WINGED KATYDID 



(DeGeer). 



[Fig. 50.] 



■Phaneroptera cui'vicauda 



Phanekopteka cuuvicacda :— Female, altev Han-is. 



This is our next most common species, and, according to Packard, 

 it is the most abundant species in Northern New England. It is at 

 once distinguished from the others by the length and narrowness of 

 its wing-covers, and by the male having a cylindrical style curving 

 from below upward, and resting in the forks of a curious furcate ap- 

 pendage from the upper end of the abdomen (Fig. 51, c, h). The ovi- 

 positor of the female is much curved, and about 

 as long as the front thighs, more pointed than in 

 retinervis^ and regularly notched, both above and 

 below, for about one-half its length (Fig. 51, d). 

 The wing-covers are flat, with the costal and 

 *i2. -'-^^ inner edges parallel, except near the apex, about 



Phaxeroptera curvicau- ,/. . 1 .J ji • , u„ i„„„,i-f.-,n 



DA :-a, ovipositor of fe- \ of an luch Wide, and project when closed, lull 



male, iiat. size; <f, end ot , i^ ,, . , ii i j ii u j„ rt\u^ . „_^ 



.same, enlarged; c, anal half their length beyond the body. Ihey are 



appendage of male, side i r- j n j i 



view; b, same, back view, more membranaceous, and or a duller, aarKer 



