252 BUSH-FRUITS 



and engraved on wood from the insects themselves, 

 by Anna Botsford Comstock. 



THE MORE IMPORTANT INSECTS 



The Snowy Tree-Cricket 



(Ecanthus niveus, Serv.* — Order Orthoptera: Family Gryllidse 



Saunders, Insects Inj. to Fruits. 308. 



French, Trans. 111. Hort. Soc. 1881:199. 



Comstock and Slingerland, Bull. Cornell Exp. Sta. 23:124, 



Webster, Bull. O. Exp. Sta. 45:20G. 



The work of this insect is well known, and it has been 

 frequently mentioned, both in entomological and horticultural 

 literature. The insect is a delicate, greenish white cricket, with 

 broad and transparent wing- covers, through which the folded 

 wings can be seen. These wing-covers are crossed by oblique 

 thickenings, or ribs, part of the musical apparatus of the insect. 

 The female appears much narrower than the male, the wing- 

 eovers being closely wrapped about the body. 



The chirp of this insect is a familiar and prominent nocturnal 

 sound during late summer and early autumn, all the males in 

 the immediate vicinity chirping in unison. The sound may be 

 imagined to bear a faint resemblance to the words Katij-dicf, 

 Katy-dkl, but is very unlike that of the true Katy-did. 



The only injury to plants, worthy of mention, is that caused 

 by the female in depositing her eggs in autumn; these are most 

 frequently placed in berry canes, but are also found in grape 

 vines and on twigs of various trees and bushes. Their location 

 is shown by a long, ragged wound, and if the cane is split open 

 there will be found inserted in the pith, at close intervals, a 

 series of yellowish, oblong, cylindrical eggs, about one- eighth of 

 an inch long. 



*For the sake of uniformity with other parts of the volume and of the series of 

 which it forms a part, a comma is Inserted after the specific name, and the latter 

 begins with a capital when derived from a proper noun. This practice, though 

 common among European entomologists, is not so general in the United States. 



