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2, 2830; of fastigium, ^,3, 9, 3.23.5; of pronotum, $ and 9, 77.5; 

 of tegmina, $, 3742, 9, 4448; of hind femora, $, 2021, 9, 2223; 

 of ovipositor, 27.533 mm. (Figs. 173, 174 and PI. V.) 



Tli is is a rather common 

 cone-head in northern Indiana, 

 where it frequents the tall 

 grasses along ditches and the 

 borders of damp prairies. In the 

 central and southern counties it 

 is more scarce. Its known range 

 extends from Norway, Me., west 



Fig. 173. Male. Natural size. 

 (After Lugger.) 



and north across southern Ontario to Bismark, N. Dak., and 

 Jnlesburg, Col., and south and southwest to N. Carolina, Ten- 

 nessee, Kansas and New Mexico. It is therefore the most widely 

 distributed species of the genus in the United States. The female 

 of ensiger has been recorded as depositing her eggs between the 

 stem and the root leaves of Andropogon, a genus of tall coarse 

 grasses which grow in dry, sandy localities. The young. Latched 

 in May, reach maturity in central Indiana about July 10, though 

 an adult male was taken in Vigo Co. on June 8. 



Scudder, who has set the note to music, says of the song 

 (1874, 368) : "This insect has but a single song and stridulates 

 only by night, or during cloudy weather. It begins its song as 

 soon as the sky is obscured or the sun is near the horizon. It com- 

 mences with a note like brio, tLen pauses an instant and immedi- 



Fig. 174. Female. Natural size. (After Lugger.) 



ately emits a rapid succession of sounds like cJnci at the rate of 

 about five per second, and continues them for an unlimited time. 

 Davis (1887) likens its note to the syllable 'ik-ik-ik,' as if sharpen- 

 ing a saw r , enlivening the low bushes, and particularly the corn- 

 patch, as it seems to especially delight in percliing near tlie top 

 of a cornstalk and tLere giving fortli its ratlier impulsive song." 

 Walker (1904a, 337) mentions cnxiycr as "a very common in- 



