Sept., '04] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 233 



"At the beginning of July, when I arrived in Pequaming, 

 the males of this species were rather common about brush 

 heaps and stumps in open fields and pastures ; I also took a 

 few specimens in the woods, but they are sun-loving creatures 

 and could never be found except in sunny spots. They soon 

 diminished in numbers, and after August ist hardly any were 

 to be found. The first female was taken on July yth. Only 

 six females were seen during the entire season ; four were 

 taken on beds of dead leaves in the woods, one among the 

 loose bark at the foot of the dead Norway pine which I visited 

 so frequently and successfully in search of Coleoptera, and one 

 in the road where it passes through meadows of tall grass. 

 The females were very easy to capture when found ; they are, 

 of course, unable to fly, and their jump lacks entirely the elas- 

 ticity so characteristic of the males, and is similar to but 

 weaker than that of a female Dichromorpha viridis, which at a 

 distance they somewhat resemble. The males, on the other 

 hand, are, I think, about the best jumpers of any of the Or- 

 thoptera found in the eastern United States. They have a 

 powerful spring, but it is their quickness which renders them 

 so difficult to capture. When alarmed, they are not content 

 with one spring to a place of apparent safety, but jump about 

 with such speed that they can hardly be followed with the 

 eyes, and never cease their rapid succession of jumps until 

 deep under the nearby vines, twigs, or dead grasses, where 

 they cannot be induced to stir, and owing to their color are 

 perfectly safe. I have never seen a specimen where there was 

 not a thick tangle somewhere near in which to hide. I was 

 only able to catch them by listening until one of the musicians 

 gave his " tsikk-tssikk-tssikk-tssikk-tsikk-tsikk," which was 

 always lustily delivered ; then, approaching within a few 

 yards, I would wait, knowing that, if not as yet alarmed, the 

 sound would be repeated in a few seconds ; then, locating the 

 sound, I would approach to within a few feet ; even then it 

 would be usually impossible to see the musician, and it would 

 be necessary to wait motionless. If my approach had been 

 sufficiently stealthy, the musician would at length disclose his 

 position by giving a cautious "tsik." Pouncing upon him 



