SUBFAMILY III. COPIPHORIX.l-:. 529 



acute. Ovipositor much surpassing the tegmina. Length of body, $ , 

 2628, 2, 2931; of fastigium, $ and 9, 1.82.2; of pronotum, $, 6.8 

 7.5, 2. 5.37.8; of tegmina, $, 2934, $, 30 42; of hind femora, $, 

 18.521, 2, 21 27; of ovipositor, 2739 mm. 



Putnam Co., Ind., Aug. 27 Sept. 18 ; Washington, D. C., Aug. 

 23; Norfolk and Tappahannock, Va., Aug. 23 Oct. 8; Staten Is- 

 land, N. Y., Sept. 3. The Indiana specimens were taken from a 

 marshy spot in a blue-grass pasture, the first one in 1914, and 

 only females are so far known from that State. In Florida it is 

 recorded only from Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Daytona and 

 Gainesville and probably inhabits only the northern third of the 

 State. Scudder's type was a female from Georgia and the known 

 range of the species extends from Connecticut west to central In- 

 diana and St. Louis, Mo., and southwest to northern Florida and 

 Nugent, Miss. 



K. & H. (1915, 403) describe the song and habits of rctnsus as 

 follows: "The present insect is an inhabitant of the grasses in 

 waste fields, along the borders of marshes and in the drier por- 

 tions of the marshes proper, and is usually to be found in large 

 numbers. The song is of the exact pitch of that of y. li/ristcs but 

 weaker, a continuous zceeeeeeeee. In New Jersey the species is 

 the last of the genus to appear, reaching the adult condition to- 

 ward the end of August." K. & H. (1915, 401) have placed the 

 Conocephalus atlanticus Brunei' (1809, 38) as a synonym. They 

 state that the Conoceplialus triops and C. disxiinilis of many Am- 

 erican authors also refer rightfully to rctusus, triops being a 

 larger, more robust form with shorter ovipositor and shorter, 

 flatter, broader fastigium. 



243. NEOCONOCEPHALUS TRIOPS (Linna?us), 1758, 430. Broad-tipped Cone- 

 head. 



Size rather large; form robust. Green or brown; tip of fastigium be- 

 neath and often the tips of mandibles black; lateral carinse of pronotum 

 and margins of fastigium rarely yellowish; brown form often with a pur- 

 plish stripe along the upper third of lateral lobes and humeral vein of teg- 

 mina; under surface of hind femora and tibiae very dark in some individ- 

 uals. Fastigium as described in key. Pronotum broader and smoother 

 than in retusus ; humeral sinus broader; lateral lobes deeper in propor- 

 tion to their length. Front and middle femora unarmed or with a few 

 small spines. Hind femora with six to ten very small spines on each 

 lower carina. Ovipositor but slightly surpassing the tips of tegmina, its 

 apical third feebly decurved. Length of body, $, 27.532, 2, 3236; of 

 fastigium, $ and 2. 2.1 2.6; of pronotum, $ and 2. 8.7 9.7; of teg- 

 mina, $, 4044, 2, 4353; of hind femora, $, 2224, 2, 2326; of ovi- 

 positor, 21 25 mm. 



