SUBFAMILY II. PSEUDOPHYLLIXJE. 400 



southwest of New England are more numerous, a number of them, 

 as far as northern Georgia, being given by K. & H. (1016, 257). 

 Caudell (1006, 38) states that it is found in Kansas. 



Most of the above records have been made under the names 

 PlatypJiyUinn coucarniii Harr. (1841, 12S), Cyrtophyllus concerns 

 Scudder (1862, 444) and CyrtopJiylliis pcrspiciUatHS Biirm. (1838, 

 607), all of which are synonyms of Ptcropliylln c(niic1Ufolia (Fab.). 

 The female was described by Fabricius as Locust a cainellifoJia, 

 and in the next line he described the male as L. perspicillata, the 

 former name therefore having priority. The Cyrtophyllus cloug- 

 atus Caudell (1006, 40) is also a synonym of P. t-ainelUfoTiu. 



Of the call of this species Scudder (1875e) has written: 



"The note, which sounds like xr, has a shocking lack of melody; the 

 poets who have sung its praise must have heard it at the distance that lends 

 enchantment. In close proximity the sound is excessively rasping and 

 grating, louder and hoarser than I have heard from any other of the Lo 

 custarians in America or in Europe, and the Locustarians are the noisest 

 of all Orthoptera. Since these creatures are abundant wherever they 

 occur, the noise produced by them, on an evening specially favorable to 

 their song, is most discordant. Usually the notes are two in number, 

 rapidly repeated at short intervals. Perhaps nine out of ten will ordi- 

 narily give this number, but occasionally a stubborn insect persists in 

 sounding the triple note ('Katy-she-did') ; and as katydids appear de- 

 sirous of defiantly answering their neighbors in the same measure, the 

 proximity of a treble-voiced songster demoralizes a whole neighborhood, 

 and a curious medley results; notes from some individuals may then be 

 heard all the while, scarcely a moment's time intervening between their 

 stridulatious, some nearer, others at a greater distance; so that the air is 

 filled by these noisy troubadours with an indescribably confused and gra- 

 ting clatter." 



Caudell (1006, 32) says: "The female of this katydid is unique 

 among Orthopterous insects, so far as known, in that they stridu- 

 late in a manner similar to that of the males. The tegmina are 

 partially opened and closed just as are those of the males during 

 stridulation. The roughened surface of the triangular anal areas 

 rub over each other, like the tympani of the males, the right teg- 

 men sliding beneath the left one. The resulting sound is a sharp, 

 scraping note, heard easily for several yards. This sound is made 

 by the female when disturbed by handling, but whether or not it is 

 ever made voluntarily in nature is not known, but it presumably 

 is when the insect is disturbed by any cause." 



According to Riley (1874, 167) the eggs of the true katydid 

 are thrust, by means of the sharp ovipositor, into crevices and soft 

 substances, and probably, in a state of nature, into the crevices of 

 loose bark, or in to the soft stems of woody plants. They are of a 



