498 FAMILY VII. TETTIGOXIIDJE. THE KATYDIDS. 



with long antennae one whom, in time, they could clasp lovingly 

 with their slender limbs and forget cymbals, calls, skies, food, 

 ejtrth, everything in that long embrace which is to them the acme, 

 the one, the highest object of their mature existence. 



The serenade continued thus, almost unbroken, from dusk till 

 dawn. A serenade it was in truth a song of love of passion, 

 poured out to the listening ears of the other sex. At times a sin- 

 gle player dropped out of the chorus. His work, his love-calls had 

 not been in vain. From some leafy retreat, where she had been 

 hidden by day, a lady katydid slowly emerged, and, entranced by 

 the song by, to her ears, the tender wooing notes drew nearer 

 and nearer unto the charmed circle whence the cymbals clanged 

 and shuffled. Their notes became less vigorous. More softly they 

 fell upon her ear, until finally, as she coyly advanced they ceased 

 and the caress of the antennae took their place. The other musi- 

 cians noted the absence of one of their chorus, and sounded their 

 drums the louder, but for most of them their labor was in vain. 

 Many of them doubtless go through life unblessed by the presence 

 of the gentler sex, clanging their nightly calls from mid-July to 

 the coming of the hoar-frost, and to its biting nips finally suc- 

 cumbing, possessed by the thought if a katydid can think that 

 this earth is a desolate and cruel abiding place for such as they. 

 So have the most of bachelors human and otherwise doubtless 

 thought, as in the past they yielded up the ghost. 



The known range of this true katydid extends from New Eng- 

 land and London, Ont., west to Michigan and northern Illinois, 

 and south and west to North Carolina, northern Georgia and cen- 

 tral Kansas. In New England it has been definitely recorded 

 only from Massachusetts and Connecticut, Scudder (1900a, 103) 

 stating that it is found in isolated colonies in the former State 

 and more generally but still locally in Connecticut. Davis (1889) 

 mentions it as occurring on Staten Island, N. Y., in late July and 

 August. Walker (1904a, 330) states that it is common at Niag- 

 ara, and that he had often heard it at Yonkers, N. Y. Caulfield 

 (1888) records the only Ontario specimen as taken at electric 

 light in London. It is not mentioned in any of the local Michigan 

 lists at hand, though stated by Pettit and McDaniel to have been 

 recorded from the State. Lugger, though giving a description 

 and an account of its habits (1898, 226), does not record it from 

 Minnesota but says: "If found in this State it will very likely 

 occur in small colonies." Ball (1897) mentions it as rare at 

 Ames, Iowa, while Bruuer (1893a, 29) records it as not rare in 

 the eastern or wooded part of Nebraska. The records south and 



