554 FAMILY VII. TETTIGONIIDJE. THE KATYDIDS. 



feet, and the vicinity of Washington, D. C. Bruner's type was 

 from the District of Columbia and was very briefly described. 

 It appears to be a pine-loving arboreal species and Davis (100-4) 

 has given an interesting account of its habits from which I quote 

 a* follows: 



"Those who visit the pine-barrens of New Jersey know what a pleas- 

 ure it is to ramble along the narrow wooded-paths among the pine trees; 

 old paths that after once being made continue for many years, and mas 

 seldom entertain a pedestrian. Along these paths and by the side of the 

 sandy roads, any time during late summer and until frost, one may hear ;i 

 faint, lisping little song from a grasshopper coming from the pines, often 

 from their topmost branches. It is an easy matter to climb the pitch- 

 pine, which is usually arranged admirably for the purpose, and the grass- 

 hopper is also friendly to investigation, and commonly continues to stridu- 

 late. 



"Two stout insect-nets clapped together suddenly about the center of 

 the music will often disclose the grasshopper in one of them, but not al- 

 ways. He is a tree-loving insect, and being subject to the tossings of the 

 wind, holds on tighter than most grasshoppers that I have had dealings 

 with. It is, in fact, the only arboreal Orchelimum that I have found in 

 New Jersey. 



"Sometimes Orchelimum minor can be observed on the low branches 

 of a pine especially if the tree stands in the open, and the insect may occa- 

 sionally be beaten into an umbrella. When the trunks of the pines are 

 'sugared' for moths the little minor also attends, and, like many other 

 members of the genus, it is active and musical both by day and night," 



Of its habits in Georgia Allard (101 Ob, 35) wrote: "Its notes 

 are a succession of brief, feeble, silken lisps followed by a pause 

 about as long, then repeated s-s-s-s-s-s s-s-s-s-s-s s-s-s-s-s-s. I hear 

 it during the warm, sunny hours of the day, even in the high- 

 crowned pines around my house. So faint and fugacious are its 

 notes that it is probably never identified by ordinary ears. If a 

 good breeze is blowing, the feeble lisps are lost amidst the sigh- 

 ing and rustle of the pines upon which they dwell. In no manner 

 do the notes to me recall those of any other Orchelimum. The 

 short staccato lisps so characteristic of the songs of most Orcheli- 

 mums are entirely wanting and the tone quality more nearly re- 

 sembles the leg and wing stridulations of some of the Stenobothri 

 than the Orchelimums." 



254. ORCHELIMUM CONCINNUM Scudder, 1862, 452. Dusky-faced Meadow 

 Grasshopper. 



Size medium for the genus; form slender. Color variable, fresh speci- 

 mens usually with tegmina and wings translucent pale brown, tinged with 

 green on costal margin; sides of pronotum and abdomen, and all the fe- 

 mora, pale green; tibia? and tarsi of a brownish hue; face yellowish-white 



