22 Tettigoniidae 



Recorded also from Nantucket and Woods Hole, Mass, but more common 

 southward. 

 A. rotundifolia Scud. Bronx, Sep, Ang; Ft. Montgomery, Aug, Schott; Marlboro, 

 Sep (Bklyn Mus.-Rehn & Hebard, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 1914) ; Ithaca, 

 Jl-Aug, Oct (CU) ; Rochester, Deveson. SI: Generally distributed, and found 

 from late Jl until frost; latest date Oct 11, 1903; not so plentiful as oblongi- 

 folia. LI: Brooklyn, Aug, Zab; Pinelawn, Aug; Coram, Sep; Smithtown, 

 Aug; Wading R., Jl ; Yaphank, Jl-Aug; Calverton, Sep; Amagansett, Sep; 

 Southold, Sep ; Orient, Oct 30, Lath. 



MiCROCENTRUM Scudder 



M. rhombifolium Sauss. Blauvelt, SBHiisted. SI: Generally distributed. Lil: 

 Prospect Pk., Brooklyn, Sep; Maspeth, Sep; apparently the species is not found 

 on the eastern part of the island. 



Often found in wooded situations and on the wayside trees of well-shaded 

 roads. It is more likely to be found in maple trees than is the true katydid, 

 and lays its eggs on many species of plants. As the season advances, it, like 

 Pterophylla camellifolia, often sings when the sun is shining brightly. 



PteROPHYLLA Kirby 



P. camellifolia Fab. Yonkers, EMWalker; West Pt., Sept-Oct, Rohn; Milton, Sep, 

 Joutel; Stuyvesant Falls, Coeymans (NYS) ; Dansville, Sep (CU) ; Niagara 

 {EMWalker in Can. Ent. 36:330, 1904). SI: Once common, but now re- 

 stricted, so far as known, to a small colony near the Moravian Cemetery, 

 located in 1921 by Miss Miriam Campbell. An early record for the song is 

 July 30 (1908), and the latest date is November 2 (1882). The insects stop 

 singing when the thermometer falls to about 50° (Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, 

 Mar, 1922). LI: In Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, Sept, 1902, p. 174, is the statement 

 by Zabriskie that this species was common some twenty-five years ago about 

 his home in Brooklyn, but in recent years he had not seen nor heard a single 

 one. Away from NYC it is generally distributed and often very common — 

 Jamaica; Center I., Oyster Bay; Selden, laying eggs in bark of locust, Sep 18; 

 Bellport, Aug, Nic ; Yaphank, Oct 1, common, five females laying eggs in the 

 bark of pitch pines ; Calverton, Sep, laying eggs in pine bark ; Amagansett, 

 Sep; Gardiners L, Aug; Wading R., Aug 6; Southold, Sep; Greenport, Aug 

 2, one singing ; Orient, Nov 1, Lath. 



NeoconocephaluS Karney 



N. exiliscanorus Ds. SI: The type locality for this species is SI, where it was found 

 on the edge of the salt meadows near New Dorp. It has also been found in 

 many other parts of the island, including Clove Valley, Jl-Sep. LI: New 

 Utrecht ; Brooklyn, Aug, many in cattail swamp ; Woodhaven, Aug ; Maspeth, 

 Sep 12, numerous, one male of the brown variety ; Flushing, Aug. 



N. lyristes Rehn & Hebard. SI: Found in numerous localities along the edge of the 

 salt meadows at Watchogue and Long Neck in Aug-Oct, but not inland; some- 

 times seen eating grass seeds. The brown form is darker-colored in this 

 species than in any other native Neoconocephalus. LI : Woodhaven, Aug ; 

 Aqueduct, Oct; Bellport, Aug, Nic; Smith's Pt., Oct, Eng ; Promised Land, 

 Sep ; Southold, Sep. 



