SUBFAMILY III. COPIPHORINJE. 527 



A 7 a., Sept. 2 and Raleigh, N. Car., Aug. 4 (Davis). This trim- 

 bodied cone-head was described from a single female taken Oct. 

 2, 1891, from the fallen grasses on the margins of a large low- 

 land pond in Vigo County. This pond, now extinct, was surround- 

 ed on all sides by heavy timber, and its margins yielded a num- 

 ber of interesting Orthoptera found nowhere else in the county. 

 Among them were Lcptysina iiiarginicottis (Serv.), Paro.ri/a 

 hoosicri (Bl.), Anaxiplia cxigua (Say), Phi/lloscirtiis pulclieUu-s 

 (Uhler) and Conoceplialus nigroplenrus (Bruner). The first four 

 mentioned are insects of a southern range, and N. palustris, as 

 predicted at the time, has been found to be more common south- 

 ward. Elsewhere in Indiana N. palustris is known only from 

 Tippecanoe County, where Fox (1915, 30) found it in August and 

 September of regular occurrence but not especially frequent in the 

 open bogs of the rice cut-grass, Homalocenchrus oryzoidcs (L.). 



Outside of Indiana N. palustris has been taken at various sta- 

 tions in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, near Columbus and Cas- 

 talia, Ohio, Washington, D. C., Tappahaunock, Va., Raleigh, N. 

 Car., Clarksville, Tenu., and New Orleans, La. Of its habits in 

 New Jersey and Pennsylvania R. & H. (1915, 400) have written: 

 ''The males were found to be at night very alert and shy, much the 

 most difficult of the species to take excepting N. caudellianus. 

 The method of escape is, however, to hide with agility in the 

 tangles of vegetation in which the species is usually found, rather 

 than to seek safety in flight. The song is a continuous 

 dzeeeeceeeeeee, very high pitched and very weak." 



"The series taken at Cornwells, Pa., was captured during the 

 day by beating the tangled vegetation, and particularly a small 

 area of Panicularia septentrionalis in a marshy spot. In the lat- 

 ter plant the females were exceedingly numerous, nearly all being 

 taken there. In the daytime individuals are sluggish, moving but 

 slowly about, but the clinging powers were found to be remark- 

 able and the use of the spines on the limbs for this purpose was 

 quickly apparent." 



About Tappahannock, Va., Fox (1917) found N. palustris com- 

 mon in tidal marsh on the tall marsh-grass, tfpartina ci/nosuroidcs 

 (L.), less frequent on the three-square rush, tfcirpus aincricanuft 

 (Pers.) ; also on cat-tails and in moist depressions filled with 

 succulent grasses at the heads of gulleys." 



241. NEOCONOCEPHALUS VELOX Rehn & Hebard, 1914c, 402. Swift Cone- 

 head. 



Size medium for the genus; form compressed, slender, elongate. Pale 

 brown or tawny olive; head with a median stripe of darker brown, this 



