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species recalls also the distant croaking of frogs in the Spring.” The 
song of fasciafus is also a high trill continuing usually for several minutes 
but the length of the note is very variable as is the interval between the 
notes. It sings all day as well as all night, in the bright sunshine as 
well as on cloudy days and in the dusk of evening. Angustpennis has 
a song which resembles that of /ascia/us in some degree, but it is very 
much fainter and lasts only from three to five seconds with an equal~ 
interval between the trills. Mr. Seudder says* of the song of miveus : 
‘*The day-song of this insect is exceedingly shrill and may be repres- 
ented hy the following figure {a musical notation representing a trill] 
though the notes vary in rapidity. When slowest they are about sixteen 
to a second. The song is of varied length, sometimes lasting but two or 
three seconds, sometimes continuing a minute or two uninteruptedly ; 
it is a nearly uniform equally sustained trill, but the insect often com- 
mences its note at a different pitch from the normal one as if it required 
a little practice to attain it. When singing the tegmina are raised at fully 
a right angle to the body. ‘The night-song consists of ‘irr repeated in- 
cessantly, three parts of song and one of rest in every three seconds.” 
The ‘‘day-song” described by Mr. Scudder seems to be the song of 
Fasciatus, while the ‘‘night-song” is a good description of that of angust- 
pennis. In conclusion /afipennis, according to Prof. Riley, generally 
chooses the tender shoots of the grape in which to lay its eggs, while 
niveus prefers the raspberry or blackberry, but is much less particular 
than the first mentioned species and frequently lays its eggs in the tender 
twigs of several other shrubs and trees, Both of these species as well as 
angustipenmis prefer cultivated ground, but /ascia/us is comparatively 
rare in such localities but is abundant along weedy roadsides and hedges 
and in meadows overgrown with rank weeds. The females are abundant 
in late Summer and early Fall on the various species of Solidago and 
Helianthus particularly when these grow about the edges of meadows and 
cornfields, Walker's species Zcanthus nigricornis is, I think, nothing 
more than a long-winged dark variety of /ascza/us. Specimens of the 
latter with wings extending beyond the elytra as much as .16 of an inch 
are not uncommon, and as Walker's description does not contain other 
plain characters his name should give way to the older one of Fitch. [he 
last of the five species referred to at the beginning of this paper is @caz- 
thus bipunctatus DeGeer. It is at once distinguished from the other 
species of the genus by the lower margin of the lateral lobes which is 
emarginate in the middle instead of straight or slightly convex and by the 
spotted elytra. I am not acquainted with its song and it has never, I 
think, been described, 
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Society News. 
Brooklyn Entomological Society.—/vb. 5th, 7SS8.—16 persons present. 
The Curators reported the arrangements tor the Exhibition of specimens on February 
14th. Mr. Weeks gave some notes on the methods of collecting Rhynchephora and 
on the food habits of several species. Mr. Jiilich added notes on Aphrastus teniatus 
and other species observed by him.—JZarch 5th, s889.—17 persons present. The 
Report of the Exhibition Committee was presented and adopted, and considerable 
discussion as to the cabinets and boxes to be adopted for the Society washad. A 
large mass of routine business was disposed of. The food and other habits of local 
Cerambycide were discussed by Messrs. Weeks, Dittz, Hulst, Angell and Meeske. 
* Boston Journal of Natural History, Vol. VII, No, IV, pp. 365 and 366. 
