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Windsor, and it is probably as plentiful all over the province. 

 Its notes are one of the most familiar sounds of autumn, and are 

 heard both during the day and night. The stridulation is pro- 

 duced by lifting the wing-covers about 45 above the abdomen 

 and then shuffling them together, producing a sound resembling 

 the word plee-e-e-e, plee-e-e-e, plee-e-e-e, or cree-e-e-e, etc. It has 

 been suggested that these notes can be reproduced by taking a 

 silver half-dollar between the lingers and striking the coin with 

 the edge of a nickle. These autumnal sounds ring continually 

 in our ears until the first frosts put a stop to the love-making. 

 During recent years the shrilling of this species has been first 

 noted on the following dates : August 19th, 1890 ; August 6th, 

 1891 ; July 29th, 1892 (at Windsor, N. S.) ; August 2nd, 1893 ; 

 July 29th, 1895 ; August llth, 1896. By October 31st of last 

 year, only two or three individuals could be heard, and by 

 November 6th, a lovely, warm, Indian summer day, on listening 

 at one place, only about one individual could be detected in 

 fact the species was all but silent. None were noted after that 

 date, although a few individuals might have been found two or 

 three days later. 



I have not observed the form fasciatws in Nova Scotia. 



Scudderia pistillata, B runner. 



The general colour of this insect, as found in Nova Scotia, is 

 a pale oil-green or apple-green ; upper part of eye, brown ; 

 region between base of antennae, centre of face, and labium, 

 white ; a cream -buff stripe on each dorso-lateral part of the 

 thorax ; beneath, whitish-green ; white between the legs and on 

 the throat, and two longitudinal white lines, slightly raised, on 

 the ventral surface of the abdomen ; soles of feet and antennae 

 light brownish. Length of head and body, exclusive of abdo- 

 minal appendages, 22 mm. 



This handsome Katydid is very common about Halifax. It 

 is found upon the foliage of bushes, chiefly alders, in or near 

 swampy places. Although so plentiful, }^et its protective simili- 

 tude to a leaf, both in colour and form, and its usual slow move- 



