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to accomplish the work. The apple crop was very light in this part ; most of the 

 fruit dropped to the ground before half matured, on the average about one-quarter 

 of a crop. Peaches and plums, however, were in abundance and of the best quality. 

 I never saw finer in these valleys. * * * — [James B. Darton, Nephi City, Utah, 

 November 5, 1889. 



Another Insect impressed in Paper. 



I have received to-day an interesting pressed specimen of a Neuropterous insect 

 with no other statement in reference to it than that it comes from you. Will you 

 please give me some facts in reference to the specimen and how it came to be so com- 

 pletely pressed ? The explanation of this particular example can not be the same as 

 that given upon page 381 of Vol. I, Insect Life, of a species of Lithobius that was sent 

 from the Giles Lithographic and Liberty Printing Company, for that was evidently 

 oaught up in the surface substance of the paper while it was beiug manufactured — 

 £C. V. Riley, December 16, 1889, to Mr. N. O. Wilhelm, 25 Clinton Place, N. Y. 



Reply. — Your letter of December 16 is at hand. The specimen of a Neuropterous 

 insect in a heavy manila paper is an interesting exhibition of the power of the 

 paper machine in incorporating with the paper pulp, into the paper itself, the body, 

 legs, and all except the parchment-like wings of an insect. The wings are quite 

 free from the paper except at the point of union with its owner in life and are yet 

 pressed to the common level. You see all parts of the insect can readily be seen. I 

 think it was curiosity that led to this creature's untimely death. It was evidently 

 facing the crushing rollers, for you see behind the long, tapering discolored band, 

 evidently from the juices of its body. Not only this, but meeting its death through 

 beiug curious and the numerous empty egg-shells in the surface of the paper persuade 

 me it was a female. — [N. O. Wilhelm, 25 Clinton Place, New York City, December 

 20, 1889. 



The "Katy-did" Call. 



By careful observation of several years I have established the fact that the call of 

 " Katydid "is made by the tree cricket. I have captured a number of specimens, 

 and had witnesses who watched them. While making the sound the wings are held 

 upright at right angles to the body, and the souud is made by moving the edges of 

 the wings laterally. * * * — [LeRoy T. Weeks, Osborne, Kans., November 23, 1889, 

 to Smithsonian Institution. 



I have observed for several years that the common call of " Katydid " is made by 

 the tree cricket, and that the so-called Katydid makes a continuous " Z " sound. 



I have called the attention of many people to the fact. I have caught specimens 

 and kept them in my room. I have reported to Prof. F. H. Snow, K. S. IL, and shall 

 report to-day to Harvard, Yale, and Smithsonian Institution. — * * * — [LeRoy T. 

 Weeks, Osborne, Kans., November 23, 1889, to Dr. C. Hart Merriam. 



Reply. — Your letters of the 23d ultimo, addressed to the Smithsonian Institution 

 and to the Ornithologist of the Department of Agriculture have both been referred to 

 me for reply as to the portion referring to tree crickets. You have made a not un- 

 natural mistake in considering that you have found that the insect which makes the 

 Katydid cry is the tree cricket. You probably have not heard the true Katydid. The 

 insect to which you refer which makes the sound not unlike that of the Katydid is 

 (Ecanthus latipennis Riley. The notes of the Katydids have been carefully studied by 

 several entomologists, and you will find in my sixth Report on the Insects of Missouri, 

 pages 150 to 169, a full account of my own observations, while I have treated of tree 

 crickets in the fifth report of the same series, page 120, and in the general index to 

 the same in Bulletin 6 of the U. S. Entomological Commission, page 163. — [December 

 4, 1889.1 



