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a little narrower than the lobes themselves (female). Tegmina broad 

 ovate, shorter than the pronotum, well rounded, varying from a little 

 longer than broad to fully half as long again as broad, lateral, never 

 attiugent, uniform brownish fuscous. Mesothoracic epimera piceous 

 and conspicuous from the light color of the thoracic episterna, which is 

 that of the lower portion of the lateral lobes. Fore femora of male very 

 feebly tuinesceut; hind femora ferruginous, more or less cinereous on the 

 outer face and more or less infuscated on apical half, with feeble cloudy 

 indications of bifasciate fuscous or deeper ferruginous markings on the 

 upper face, the under surface luteo-rufous, the geniculatiou black or 

 blackish ; hind tibiae olivaceous, often more or less infuscated, occasion- 

 ally red, with a subbasal pallid annulus, the spines black beyond the 

 pallid base, nine to twelve in number in the outer series. Extremity 

 of male abdomen a little clavate, well recurved, the supraanal plate 

 long triangular with slightly convex sides, the margins broadly and 

 feebly raised, the median sulcus percurrent but contracted beyond the 

 middle, before that rather deep, with sharp but not greatly elevated 

 walls; furcula consisting of a pair of approximate, somewhat diverging, 

 cylindrical, tapering, slender, acuminate fingers, reaching a little more 

 than one-third way across the supraanal plate; cerci rather slender, 

 mesially contracted to nearly half the extreme basal width by the 

 arcuation of the upper margin, the lower border being straight, beyond 

 the middle somewhat enlarged again, the apex roundly truncate, the 

 whole gently incurved, nearly reaching the tip of the supraanal plate; 

 infracercal plate almost as long as the supraanal, apically broad; sub- 

 genital plate small, almost as broad as long, the apical margin not ele- 

 vated, well rounded as viewed from above, entire. 



Length of body, male, 16 mm., female, 29 mm. ; antennae, male, 10 mm., 

 female, 10.25 mm.; tegmina, male, 3.5 mm., female, 4.25 mm.; hind fem- 

 ora, male, 10 mm., female, 13.25 mm. 



Twelve males, 14 females. Vigo County, Indiana, W. S. Blatchley 

 (A. P. Morse; 8. H. Scudder); High Bridge, Jessamine County, Ken- 

 tucky, October 15, H. Garman ; near Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, Octo- 

 ber 2, Putnam (Museum Comparative Zoology) ; St. Louis, Missouri 

 (U.S.N.M. Riley collection); Dallas, Texas (U.S.N.M. Eiley collec- 

 tion ;-L. Bruner). 



Blatchley also reports it from Monroe County, Indiana, and if Saus- 

 sure's species is the same it is also found in Carolina. Blatchley says 

 "it reaches maturity about September 1, and frequents for the most 

 part high, dry, open woods, especially those in which beech and oak 

 trees predominate ... In late October, if the season is dry, it is 

 often found . . . among the reeds and tall rank grasses near the 

 border of marshes." 



