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About Tappahannock, Ya., Fox found it "frequent between 

 August !) and September 10 in tidal marshes occurring most com- 

 monly in tall reeds, tfjxirtiiui ci/iioxttroidcs (L.) but spreading in 

 small numbers through the briery thickets and corn fields of the 

 adjoining dry land.'' 



K. & H. (1915, 374) state that the song of A'. c.riHx<'<inonix 



"Is a ziit-ziit-ziit-ziit a vibrant rattling note, rising and falling in in- 

 tensity, often ceasing as if from exhaustion. The song is rapid, the sounds 

 being emitted on warm evenings about three to the second. When near a 

 colony of this species on favorable evenings after dark the air is vibrant 

 with the sound; as several singers cease others take up the constantly ris- 

 ing and falling song, but at no very great distance the sound is inaudible. 

 The insects were found not to begin to sing until nearly sunset and before 

 dark often ceased their song upon any attempt to approach the spot 

 After dark the singing was much more vigorous and the singers could 

 then even be approached with a light, cautiously seized while singing and 

 moving about in the bushy weeds and heavy grasses into which they 

 climbed while stridulating. Toward midnight, after the air is chilled, 

 the singers become audibly fewer and their stridulations less intense. 

 The species is found very local but often in large numbers in the heavier 

 tangles of weeds, low bushy plants or heavy reeds in both fresh and salt 

 water marshes. The females were found often in grasses near the sing- 

 ers; one was taken ovipositing in a grass blade at dusk." 



235. NEOCONOCEPHALUS XEBRASCENSIS (Bruner), 1891, 72. Nebraska 

 Cone-head. 



Size median, form slender. General color either bright grass green or 

 a yellowish brown or tan with usually narrow yellowish lines along lateral 

 carinse of pronotum; antennas in the brown individuals often tinged with 

 pinkish; hind tibia? together with all the tarsi more or less infuscated. 

 Fastigium slender, as long as occiput, male, distinctly longer, female, pro- 

 jected upward, moderately tapering, its tip narrowly rounded, under sur- 

 face shining black. Pronotum with disk narrow, lateral carinse almost 

 parallel, hind margin rounded, surface rugose-punctate, humeral sinus 

 rather deep and narrow. Stridulating field of male tegmen large, broad, 

 very similar to that of N. r. crepitans. Femora armed beneath as in ex- 

 iliscanorus. Anal cerci of male stout, with strong internal hooks. Ovi- 

 positor long, slender, lanceolate, a little curved upward and extending 5 

 7 mm. beyond the closed tegmina. Length of body, $ , 27 30, 9 , 32 

 33; of fastigium, $, 3.23.5, 5, 3.74; of pronotum, $, 7.68, 9, 7.2 

 8; of tegmina, $, 3638, 9, 4042; of hind femora, $, 2023, 9, 23 

 24.7; of ovipositor, 29 32.5 mm. 



Putnam, Vigo, Fulton and Lake Counties, Ind. (W. 8. B.} 

 Moline, Homer, Savanna and Normal, 111. (Ur'bana coll.) In 

 central and northern Indiana this is the most common of the 

 three species of Neoconoccphalus there occurring. It frequents 

 the same haunts as C. ensiger and when approached often attempts 

 to escape by burrowing beneath the fallen grass. In Nebraska 



