530 FAMILY VII. TETTIGOXIID.E. THE KATYDIDS. 



Ormond, Gainesville, West Palm Beach, Lake Istokpoga, Cape 

 Sable and Dunedin, Fla. (W. 8. B.) ; Mobile, Ala. (Lading) ; Ag- 

 ricultural College, Miss. (Weed) ; October March. Recorded 

 from numerous places in Florida, and occurs everywhere through- 

 out the State and on the southern keys. These records have been 

 made under different names, viz., ConocepJialus triops (Linn.), 

 C. fusco-striatus Redt., C. inexicanus Sauss. and C. nietoi Sauss., 

 the second and third being synonyms of triops and the fourth be- 

 longing rightfully to an extralimital species of Homorocoryphus. 



My first field acquaintance with C. triops was made at Or- 

 mond on March 16, 1899. These I determined as C. nietoi Sauss. 

 by comparison with Mississippi specimens which I had received 

 under that name from H. C. Weed and they were so recorded by 

 me (1902, 70). About Dunedin N. triops occurs in small numbers 

 throughout the winter, frequenting for the most part the dense 

 masses of fallen grasses about the borders of marshes and ponds, 

 but sometimes noted amidst the wire-grass of open pine woods. 

 There as elsew T here the males are mostly brown and the females 

 green, there being but one brown female and one green male among 

 the 24 specimens at hand. I have never seen it fly when disturbed, 

 but it is an adept at burrowing and also at remaining perfectly 

 motionless by the side of or on some object with whose hue its own 

 color blends. On the other hand, Hebard states (/?. & H., 1904) 

 that at Thoniasville, Ga., the brown fusco-striatus phase of this 

 species "appeared early in March and was soon plentiful in the 

 woods, especially in the broom sedge in damp locations. The spec- 

 imens, when pursued, always took to wing and made off with a 

 strong but zigzag flight, never alighting until quite a distance 

 had been traversed." 



T. triops is found, say R. & H. (1915, 408) "almost everywhere 

 in the southern United States, inhabiting the forest undergrowth, 

 fields and semi-marsh situations. Over most of its range it is one 

 of the earliest Tettigoniids to appear, the adults being found in 

 south Georgia in late March." Its known range extends from the 

 vicinity of Washington, D. C., south and west to Stillwater, Okla- 

 homa, Central Texas, Arizona and Los Angeles, Cal. Redten- 

 bacher (1891, 399) gives also for his fusco-striatus,, Missouri, 

 Cuba, Port Au Prince and Quita. 



Allard (1910a) has given an excellent account of the habits 

 and song of the brown color phase of N. triops which is, in part, 

 as follows : 



"The careful observer of insect stridulations who visits the upper 



