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continuous whirr as in rolmxtiis. was not nearly so ear-splitting." 

 Commenting on this R. & H. (1915, 390) attribute the difference 

 to possible climatic conditions and state that "in the west, in the 

 center of its typical distribution, we have heard it singing with 

 the full burring, buzzing whirr which is characteristic of and 

 fully as loud as, the song of typical robust UN." 



239. NEOCONOCEPHALUS CAUDELLIANUS (Davis), 1905, 289. Caudell's 



Cone-head. 



"A robust species, either green or brown, the tegmina often flecked 

 with black. Fastigium obtuse, its sides with a faint yellow line, beneath 

 which there is a black line extending from the base to the base of the an- 

 tenna 1 , or nearly so; lower basal tooth blunt but distinct. Anterior and 

 middle femora unarmed beneath; posterior femora armed beneath on both 

 carinse with numerous spines." (Davis.) "Closely resembles 2V. robustus 

 but the vertex very decidedly shorter with the sides usually very weakly 

 convergent distad and apex rotundato-truncate, more so than in typical 

 robustus crepitans. Stridulating field of male slightly more elongate 

 with veins heavier than in robustus (Fig. 170, d.) Green color distinctly 

 richer than in that species." (R. & H. 1915, 395.) Length of body, $, 33; 

 of fastigium, <$ , 2.43.3, 9, 3.13.2; of pronotum, $ and 9, 8 8.9; of 

 tegmina, $, 4247.9, 9, 54.5; of hind femora, $, 23.628.9, 9, 2831.5; 

 oi ! ovipositor, 33 35.4 mm. 



.Jamesburg, Cold Spring and Erma, N. Jer., Aug. 10 Sept. 18 

 (Davis.) The known range of this species extends from New Jer- 

 sey to Atmore, Ala., but it appears to be nowhere very common. 

 The three male types were found in a cranberry bog at Lakehurst, 

 N Jer., and of them Davis says: "The song is a slow ,zip-.:ip-~i]>. 

 repeated many times and much resembling that of ConoccpJialus 

 exUiscunorns of the salt meadows." No females were found until 

 1910, when two were taken by Davis (1911) at Cold Spring, 

 N. Jer. Of males taken near Tuckerton he wrote: "They were 

 in a dry field and some of them, when disturbed, flew several hun- 

 dred feet and lit in cedar trees. This was an unusual proceeding 

 for they generally seek safety by dropping to the ground and hid- 

 ing among the thick vegetation." 



R. & H. (1915, 390) say: "The present insect is very widely 

 distributed not only along the coastal strip in truck gardens, 

 waste fields, and marshy fresh water areas, but also in boggy por- 

 tions of the adjacent pine barrens and in fields there located. 

 Usually no more than three or four widely scattered individuals 

 are to be heard at one time. The song is loud, resonant and con- 

 stant dzeeeet-dzeeeet-dzeeeet, always the same, not rising and fall- 

 ing, the notes given deliberately, counted as averaging twelve to 

 ten seconds. The males would continue their loud song fear- 



