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with a succession of very faint notes tse-tse-tse repeated very 
slowly and terminating with the phrase tse-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e 
which continues from five to twenty seconds. ... So brief 
and faint are the preceding notes, however, that they may be 
readily overlooked." McNeill says of it: "Its song is a faint 
echo of that of Orchelimum vulgare. . . . Its faint little 
quaver is the first note of the great chorus that sounds in all the 
meadows from the first of August till the first of October or until 
cold weather." 
Its range extends from Prince Edward Island to Manitoba, 
southern Florida, and Mexico. 
Short-winged Meadow-grasshopper. 
Conocephalus brevipennis (Scudder). 
Plate 15, fig. 35. 
Xiphidium brevipennis Scudder, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, p. 451 
(1862).— Smith, Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, p. 145 (1868); 
Rept. Ct. Bd. Agric. for 1872, p. 358 (1873). 
Xiphidium brevipenne Fernald, Orth. N. E., p. 24 (1884). — ^Walden, Bull. 
Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 137 (1911). 
A small, stout-bodied Grasshopper with tegmina and wings 
barely covering the body(cr), or two-thirds of it ( 9 ) (very rarely, 
it is said, they are of full length). Cerci of male brown, stout; 
the apex usually strongly twisted (60°-75°), in side view rounded, 
in dorsal view pinched apically, in dorso-lateral view abruptly 
and strongly flattened on dorsal side to a thin plate. Ovipositor 
dark brown, typically straight on dorsal margin, shorter than 
body, sometimes equalling it. 
Grass-green, minutely dotted with brown on sides of face, 
pronotum, and legs. A moderately broad, dark-brown stripe 
extends from vertex of head to hind margin of pronotum, and is 
narrowly bordered laterally on the pronotum with whitish. 
Tegmina brown. Dorsum of abdomen brown, sometimes broken 
by indications of pale stripes on each side of the broad median 
band. Hind femora with two narrow longitudinal stripes of 
brown. End of abdomen of male beneath yellowish or brownish. 
Measurements. 
Body Tegmina Hind femora Ovipositor Antenna 
Male 10.4-14 6-8 8-11 36-43 
Female 11.5-15 7-9.5 10.5-12 7-8 30-37 mm. 
