SUBFAMILY VI. OKCAXTI UN JO. 727 



341. NEOXABEA BIPUXITATA (DeGeer), 1773, 523. Two-spotted Tree Cricket. 



Pale pinkish-brown; tegniina of female with two pairs of rather large 

 blackish spots, one near base, the other at middle. Antennas pale yellow, 

 the basal segments without black marks, the first segment slightly pro- 

 longed at its upper inner angle, forming an acute blackish tooth (Fig. 

 240, h) ; legs pale with a pinkish tinge. Head strongly depressed between 

 the eyes. Fronotuni nearly one-half longer than wide; subcylindrical with 

 sides subparallel to near basal fifth, then suddenly expanded to form a 

 much wider strongly pitted basal margin, this separated from the disk 

 proper by a distinct cross-suture. Wings very long, protruding like tails 

 beyond the abdomen. Length of body, $ and $, 13 16; of pronotum, 

 3.3; of tegniina, 11 13; of wings, 20; of hind femora, 9 10; of ovipositor. 

 6 mm. Width of tegniina, $ , 4.5 mm. 



This long- winged tree cricket appears to be very scarce, not 

 only in Indiana, but usually wherever found. Here it has been 

 taken onry in Vigo and Marion counties, Aug. 3 27. Its known 

 range is southern and a very wide one, extending in the United 

 States from Connecticut west to Illinois and Kansas and south 

 and southwest to North Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi. It is 

 also recorded by Saussure and others from Mexico and Central 

 America. DeGeer's type was from Pennsylvania. Morse (lOIl)a) 

 records it from New Canaan, Portland and New Haven, Conn., 

 Aug. 14 Sept. 11; Smith (1910) from various points in New 

 Jersey and Fulton (1015) from Ohio and Kansas. Near Cedar 

 Point, Ohio, it was found by King on oak, willow and wild grape 

 vines along the forest border or standing isolated at the edge of 

 open sandy areas. R. & H. (1916, 300) mention it as "extremely 

 retiring, living only in the densest tangles of heavy forest under- 

 growth, where solitary examples can be found only after long 

 continued and vigorous beating." 



Allard (1910b) describing its habits in north Georgia says: 



"This cricket prefers the dense leaf-canopy of grape-vines, and usu- 

 ally begins to sing at nightfall. It is an intermittent triller, and its low, 

 deep, mellow trills, tr-r-r-r. continued only a few seconds, are separated by 

 short intervals. Its notes are deeper, stronger, and richer than those of 

 Oecanthus angustipennis. In tone quality they more nearly approach the 

 song of Oecanthus latipennis. This cricket is not uncommon at Thomp- 

 son's Mills, but usually congregates in small communities wherever con- 

 ditions are favorable, generally in wild grape-vines by the roadside or in 

 low trees near dwellings." 



The genus Xa~bea Riley (nee. Walker) of my former work 

 (1903, 453) and of most American writers, was replaced by Xco.i-n- 

 Itea by Kirby, who gave as synonyms of X. Itiinnirtnta (DeG.) the 

 Occunlluix /Hiitclulutiif! Fitch (1856, 415) and O. fonnosus Walker 

 (1869, 94). 



