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species, after a compai-ison with the type. Is it distinct from M. 

 retinervis, Burm.? 



Genus Scudderia. Stal (1873). 



Top of the head, between the antennae, compressed into a short, 

 blunt spine, which curves upward sharply. Eyes nearly hemi- 

 spherical. Pronotum slightly narrowed in front, rounded behind, 

 deeply notched on the side behind, the sides of the notch fonning 

 a right angle. Fore coxae with a sharp spine on the outside. 

 Ovipositor large, curving upward. Supra-anal plate of the male 

 sending out a stout spine, which curves down, and is widened and 

 notched at the end. Sub-anal plate sends out a much longer 

 spine, notched at the end, and curving upward. 



Scudderia ourvicauda. De Geer. 



Narrow-winged Katydid. 



Length of body, about one inch ; from the face to the end of 

 the wing covers, an inch and a half ; the wings extending about 

 one-fourth of an inch farther. Body and wings, grass green ; 

 face and under side of the body, sometimes lighter, and sometimes 

 tinged with dull yellow. It feeds principally on oak leaves. 



The male does not make as loud a " shrill " as the broad-winged 

 katydid, and the sound he makes at night and in cloudy weather 

 is different from the one he makes in the sunshine. 



Genus Conocephalus. Thunberg (1815). 



Face, very oblique ; vertex, prolonged forwards into a cone. 

 Eyes, elliptical ; pronotum, truncate in front, rounded behind, 

 narrowed in front, obtusely notched on the side behind. Pro- 

 sternum, with two long, slim spines. Fore coxae with a spine on 

 the outside. 



Conocephalus ensiger. Harris. 



Cone-headed Katydid. 



Length of body, one inch ; to the end of the wing covers, two 

 inches and one-fourth ; length of ovipositor, one inch. Color, 

 pale green, lighter in the face and beneath. A small tooth is situ- 

 ated on the under side of the conical part of the head, between the 

 antennae ; and a U-shaped black mark on the under side ^ji the 

 cone near the end. 



