198 Journal Xew York Entomological Society. [Vol. xxii. 



Crytophyllus floridensis Bcut. 



La Grange, Sept. lo, ii, 12, i male, i female, i nymph 

 We sometimes heard among the oaks and cabbage pahns, but not 

 in the pine woods, a low cliluck, chhick, evidently the call of some 

 large insect, though its carrying power was poor and one had to be 

 quite near in order to hear it. There were several of the insects 

 about, and one evening when the moon was shining brightly and with 

 the aid of a lantern, one w-as discovered among the leaves of a cabbage 

 palm. Enough was seen to identify it with a Crytophyllus floridensis 

 presented to me by young Mr. Chaudoin, and the next day I knocked 

 a female of the same species from a cabbage palm into my umbrella. 

 A nymph was found at night hanging from moss on a low palmetto, 

 drying itself, having just shed its skin. This nymph was brownish in 

 color, but the adult male and female were all green. The type came 

 from near Grant, also on the east coast of Elorida, and was described 

 as greenish gray in color, but it probably was all green in life. Mr. 

 Beutenmuller reports its stridulation as a " continuous Ker-Ker-Ker- 

 Ker, with about one second interval of rest," but to the writer the 

 note sounded more like chhtck. chhick. and we used to speak of them 

 as " the chlucks." 



Xear Miami, one hundred and eighty miles to the south of La 

 Grange, one of these insects was heard stridulating every evening in 

 the latter part of September. It lived among the Spanish moss in a 

 large oak in a clearing, and as it always took alarm at the light of my 

 lantern it could not 'be observed, much less collected. Crytophyllus 

 floridensis is a larger species than the well-known Katy-did of the 

 north, though its call note is quite feeble in comparison. Owing to 

 several peculiarities of structure it has been placed in a genus by itself 

 called Lea, by Mr. Andrew N. Caudell (Journal N. Y. Ento. Soc. vol. 

 XIV, p. 42, March. 1906). who has also described the female. There 

 is another sjiecies of Katy-did living in Florida, which was heard in 

 some numbers near Ortega, along the St. Johns River, not far from 

 Jacksonville. Its note is loud and like that of Crytophyllus per- 

 spillatus. 



Belocephalus subapterus Scmld. 



La (jrange, Sei)t. 10, i brown female in grass by railroad; Sept. 

 II. I green female (Ds) ; October, 2 green males, i green female and 

 2 brown females (Chaudoin). The identification of the females is a 



