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glands, whose openings are beneath the tegmina of the male, and then 

 fertilizes her ova ? : ' 



Dr. Howard, in his "Insect Book," says with reference to O. niveus : 

 "Harrington has watched one of the concerts closely, and says, 'An 

 interesting feature of its concerts is one of which I have not been able to 

 find any mention in books accessible.' While the male is energetically 

 shuffling together his wings raised almost vertically, the female may be 

 seen standing just behind him, and, with her head applied to the base of 

 the wings, evidently eager to get the full benefit of every note produced." 

 The observer mentioned, no doubt, found the insects after pairing and 

 while the female was feeding on the glands. When rather suddenly 

 approached she will cease gnawing and sit perfectly still, while the male 

 may continue singing until she begins again. 



The tree-crickets in appearance, in graceful flight, in song and in 

 general habits certainly are worthy of the place that they occupy system- 

 atically at the head of the Orthoptera. They are the aristocrats, the 

 accomplished gentlefolk of the Order. 



A NEWPORTIA IN UTAH. 



BY RALPH V. CHAMBERLIN, PROVO, UTAH. 



The Chilopod genus Newportia was erected in 1847 by Gervais for 

 the species Scolopocryptops longitarsis of Newport, a form now known to 

 occur in Cuba, St. Vincent, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, and 

 Brazil. Since that time some fifteen additional species belonging to the 

 genus have been described, all of them from the region within the tropics 

 of America, the general range of the genus corresponding roughly with 

 that of the type species. It was, consequently, a matter of no little 

 interest to find an individual representing a well defined species of this 

 genus as far north as Salt Lake City. Most of the species are thus far 

 known from one or from but few individuals. 



The genus Newportia belongs to the Cryptopin*, the lowest of the 

 three subfamilies of the Scolopendridse. In common with the other 

 genera of this subfamily eyes are absent in Newportia, and the tarsi of all 

 the ambulatory legs, excepting the last two, consist each of but a single 

 segment, the under surface of which bears a spine or a row of bristles. 

 From the other genera of the Cryptopinse, Newportia may be readily dis- 

 tinguished through the presence of twenty-three pairs of ambulatory legs, 



January, 1909 



