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grown bogs at Cherryfield, Orono, and Whitneyville, Me., 
August 5 to 30, 1913. 
Owing to its diminutive size the female is likely to be mistaken, 
at first glance, for S. pistillata or S. furcata. 
Fork-tailed Bush-katydid. 
Scudderia furcata Brunner. 
Plate 14, figs. 9, 10. 
Scudderia furcata Brunner, Monogr. Phaner., p. 239 (1S78). — Walden, 
Bull. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 128 (1911), 
Small; tegmina narrow; front margin of pronotum nearly as 
wide as hind margin. Notch in end of process of anal plate of 
male deep, open, with parallel sides, the lobes bounding it large 
and swollen, forming a widely cleft miniature hoof-like structure. 
Normally uniform green in color, occasional individuals pre- 
sent a brownish suffusion or purplish striping, — to one of these 
Beutenmiiller applied the name fasciata. 
Ovip. 
6 mm. 
The male of this species is distinguished at once by the peculiar 
genitalia; the female is likely to be mistaken for that of the small 
northern race of S. curvicauda, but with discrimination the narrow 
tegmina and small o\apositor should characterize it sufficiently 
to prevent errors. 
This is the smallest and commonest Bush-katydid in New 
England. It lives in tall grasses, bushes, clumps of bayberry, 
huckleberry, etc. I have found it plentiful coastwise, at Province- 
town and Nantucket, in early September. My New England 
specimens were taken between July 26 and October 10. In 
New Jersey, Rehn and Hebard state that it appears about a 
month later than S. curvicauda. 
It is a very widely distributed species, being known from Bruns- 
wick and Norway, Me., to the Pacific coast, and southward to 
Florida and Mexico, where it develops an additional race. 
Concerning its musical performances, Allard says: "This 
katydid stridulates during afternoons and less frequently at 
Measurements. 
Total 
Body 
Teg. L. 
Teg. W. Wgs.>Teg. H. fern. Ant. Pron. 
Male. . 
. 35-42 
18-20 
22-32 
5.5-7 4.5-6 18.5-23 27^0 4-5 
Female . 
, 32-39 
14-21 
24-29 
5.7-6.5 19.5-22 25 4.6 
