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The note, which sounds like xr, has a most shocking lack of 

 melody; the poets who have sung its praises must have heard it 

 at the distance that lends enchantment ; in close proximity the 

 sound is excessively rasping and grating, louder and harsher 

 than I have heard from any other of the Locustarians, the 

 noisiest of all Orthoptera. Since these creatures are abundant 

 wherever they occur, the noise produced by them, on an even- 

 ing especially favorable to their song, is most discordant. Usu- 

 ally, as I have said, the notes are two in number, rapidly 

 repeated, at short intervals ; perhaps nine out of ten individuals 

 will ordinarily give this number ; but, occasionally, a stubborn 

 insect persists in sounding the triple note ; and as Katydids 

 appear desirous of answering their neighbors in the same meas- 

 ure, the proximity of a treble-voiced songster demoralizes a 

 whole neighborhood, and a curious medley results; notes from 

 some individual may then be heard all the while, scarcely a 

 moment's time intervening between their stridulations, some 

 nearer, others at a greater distance ; so that the air is filled by 

 these noisy troubadours with an indescribably confused and 

 grating clatter. This renders special observation of the notes 

 of any individual all the more difficult, and it is only by great 

 patience and careful selection that it can be accomplished, 

 unless one places himself upon the outskirts of a colony. 



/Samuel If. Scudder. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 



Authors and Societies are requested to forward their -works to the Edi- 

 tor at the earliest date possible. We ask our readers to inform us of the 

 publication especially of those works which are not generally consulted by 

 entomologists. B. Pickman Mann. 



{Continued from page 88.) 



* 219. A. R. Grote. North American Pyralides. p. 229- 



232. 



Describes Asopia devialis, Arta (n. g.) statalis, Botis feudalis, B. 5-linea- 

 lis, B. (JPyraustd) malronalis, B. hircinalis, B. niveicilialis =z 1 n. g., 7 n. spp.; 

 notes on synonymy. 



* 220. S. H. Scudder. Synonymic List of the Butterflies 

 of North America, North of Mexico. Part I. Nymphales. p. 

 233-269. 



Synopsis of the genera of North American Nymphales; list of 187 spp. 



