128 QUINCE CULTURE. 
trees with emphatic assurance ‘‘ Katy did, she did.” 
These notes are continued all night. 
The body is pale green ; the wings and wing-covers are 
of a deeper shade. The legs are also green, and very 
long. The thorax is rough, marked by two slightly 
transverse furrows; and being curved down a little on 
each side, with a slightly rounded elevation behind, 
somewhat resembles a saddle. The insect is about an 
inch and a half long, the female having a projecting 
ovipositor. The wings are shorter than the wing-covers, 
which, with their strong midrib and regular venation, 
much resemble a leaf. These large wing-covers are 
both oval and concave, and inclose the body within, 
meeting above and below at their edges like the two 
parts of a bivalve shell. The piercer of the female is 
broad, laterally compressed, and curved like a cimeter ; 
and in both sexes there are two little thorn-like projec- 
tions from the middle of the breast between the fore legs. 
The antenne are very long and slender. They attain 
maturity in September and October, when the female 
lays her eggs in two intersecting rows of eight or ten 
each, along the twig of the tree, the bark being rough- 
ened under them. The eggs are slate-brown, about one- 
eighth of an inch across, shaped much like flax-seed, and 
overlap each other like shingles. They are gummed 
securely to the twig. They hatch in the spring. 
Remedy.—Gather the broods of eggs on the twigs at 
the annual pruning; or capture and destroy the mother 
before she deposits her eggs. They are often found on 
grapevines, both eggs and insects. 
19. THe OBLONG-WINGED Katy-pip (Phylloptera 
oblongifolia, De Geer) is so similar in habits of feed- 
ing and laying its eggs as not to need any separate 
description. 
20. Tur Lear-CrumP er (Phycis indigenella, Zeller). 
——The common name of this insect is a very appropriate 
