698 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Pine tree cricket 



Ocean/ Juts pini Beutm. 



This flower cricket was tal<t;n L)\- the writer on hard pine at Karner in 

 1901 as follows; ]\\\\ 27, four; Aui;'. 21, four, and Sej). 6, one. Immature 

 specimens of what probaljl)- belong- to the same species were taken, one on 

 Jul}' 8, and two on the iqth. 



This insect has been described b)' ]Mr Beutenmuller as follows : 



Head and antennae testaceous, the latter becomint^ darker towards the 

 tip ; first two joints with four black marks ; the inner mark on the first joint 

 long- and straight, the outer oblique ; those on the second joint 

 ^j-i parallel; eyes black ; thorax testaceous with a longitudinal line 

 ■■1 on each side above ; anterior pairs of legs testaceous ; jiosterior 



1 femora green, tibiae testaceous ; body beneath black with the sides 



\w^ yellowish green ; body above blackish with a green stripe along 

 ■ \ the back; elytra transparent, with grass-green veins ; hind wings 

 I slightl)- protrutling beyond the elytra; veins also green. 



The female is somewhat paler than the male, and the wings 

 Fig. 2.;. oe- extentl a little more beyond the elytra ; ovipositor dark testaceous, 

 "^ "^ "'''"" tip black. Averaee lenijth from head to tip of wing covers, 14 



pi.,i, under ' '^ ' Ul 



side of i,.is.,i mm ; body, 12 mm; width, 4.5 mm. 



antennal seg- -_ , . . .,,.. ■lie y~\ 



mei.ts (After He states that it may be easily distinguishetl from (J. n 1 g r i- 



Beuleiiniuller, •tiTiiii i ri • 11 



Am.Mns.Nat. c o r n 1 s Walk., by the grass-green color ot the wings and the 



testaceous head and thorax and the marks on the basal joints of 



the antennae. He atlds that it lives only on pinetrees and usually on the 



high branches. It has Ijeen recorded from Riverton N. J., by Dr Smith 



and probably occurs in other pine sections of the state. 



Bibliography 

 1894 Beutenmuller, William. y\ni. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bui. 6:271 



