MORSE: ORTHOPTERA OF NEW ENGLAND. 
413 
This Tree-cricket was described from northeastern Connecticut 
and has been recorded from as far south as North CaroHna and 
Georgia. Its range in New England is as yet a subject of con- 
jecture but it has been reported from 
as far north as Gloucester, Mass. I 
have taken it at West Chop on 
Martha's Vineyard, and at Wareham,. 
Mass. 
"Its song is a continuous, soft and 
metallic reeeeeeeee with numerous un- 
dulations. When many individuals are 
heard together, their stridulations 
sound not unlike the jingling of sleigh- 
bells at a distance" (Beutenmiiller) . 
It resembles that of Oe. nigricornis and 
Oe. quadripundatus but is lower in pitch 
and like theirs is frequently given in 
late afternoon as well as at night. 
Two-spotted Tree-cricket. 
Neoxabea bipunctata (DeGeer). 
Figs. 66 I, 74. 
Gryllus bipundatus DeGeer, Mem. Hist. 
Ins., vol. 52, p. 523 (1773). 
Oecanthus bipundatus Scudder, Psyche, vol. 
9, p. 104 (1900). 
Xabea bipundata Walden, Bull. Geol. Nat. 
Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 161 (1911). 
Fig. 73. — Pine Tree-cricket, 
Oecanthus pini. A, egg-punc- 
tures in pine (x 1 1) ; B, longitu- 
dinal section of the same (x 3) ; 
C, projection of egg-cap, two 
views of the same structure (x 
500) : D, egg (x 15) ; E, egg-cap 
(x50). (After Fulton.) 
This insect has the general form of 
an Oecanthus, but differs much in the 
details of its structure, and in the color 
of the female. The basal antennal 
joint is tuberculate beneath, the pro- 
notum is elongate and oddly sculp- 
tured, the hind tibiae lack both spines and serrations, and the 
cerci and subgenital plate are peculiar. 
Color: pinkish white to pinkish brown; tegmina of female with 
two dusky spots, one near base, another near center; of male un- 
