152 Cockroaches, Locusts, Grasshoppers, and Crickets 
and the most familiarly known of all. The best-known species, M. retinervis, 
is over 2 inches long (from head to tip of folded wings); the overlapping 
dorsal parts of the wing-covers form a conspicuous angle with the lateral 
parts, hence the name “angular-winged.” The ovipositor of the female is 
very short, strongly curved, and with a bluntly pointed, finely serrate tip. The 
song of M. laurijolium (Fig. 203) is said to sound like tic repeated from 
eight to twenty times, at the rate of four a second. The eggs, of which each 
female lays from 100 to 150 in the fall, are grayish brown, flat, and long- 
oval, about | inch long by J inch wide, and are glued in double rows along 
twigs or on the edges of leaves (Fig. 199). I have found them on thorns 
of the honey-locust, and Howard once received “a batch from a western 
correspondent which was found on the edge of a freshly laundried collar 
which had lain for some time in a bureau drawer.” The rows are side by 
side, and the flat eggs overlap each other in their own row. The young 
hatch in spring and, slowly growing, moulting, and developing wings, reach 
full size and maturity by the middle of the summer. 
Fig. 204a. Fig. 2046. 
Fig. 204a.—The fork-tailed katydid, Scudderia furcata, female. (After Lugger; nat. size.) 
Fig. 204&.—The fork-tailed katydid, Scudderia furcata, male. (After Lugger; nat. size.) 
The narrow-winged katydids, belonging to the genus Scudderia (Figs. 204- 
206), are smaller than the broader-winged kinds, being not more than i\ 
inches in length to tip of folded wing-covers, and the wing-covers are narrow 
and of nearly equal width for their whole length. The ovipositor is broad, 
Fig. 205. ' Fig. 206. 
Fig. 205 .—Scudderia pistillata, female. (After Lugger; natural size ) 
Fig. 206 .—Scudderia pistillata , male. (After Lugger; natural size.) 
compressed, and curves sharply upward. These insects frequent shrubbery 
and bushes, or coarse grasses and weeds along ravines or ponds; also 
marshes, cranberry-bogs, and similar wet places. Their flight is noiseless 
