ONCOMETOPIA LATERALIS. 
Our notes upon it are meager, but indicate that the life history is 
probably the same as for the last species. The adult- emerge from 
hibernation about the last week in March, though specimens were sent 
as from Ondee, Tex., January 25, L903. The adult- arc most abun- 
dant during June and July. Mr. Lewis observed the oviposition 
at Terrell several times. The eggs arc laid just beneath the epider- 
mis, ten or twelve in a row. in practically the same manner as by 
//. triquetra. 
Table X. — Transformation records of Oncometopia lateralis. 
Eggs laid. 
3 - batched. 
Nymphs died. 
May 30 " 
.Tunc 6 rune ]0. 
August 20. 
During- the preceding summer we endeavored to rear the nymphs 
in a field cage, but all died. It would seem that there are two distinct 
generations, the larger number 
occurring in July being the new i /*"% i 
adults, which oviposit in August. lot M) / 
Professor Ball, however, finds 
but one generation in Colorado. 
He writes us a> follows: 
The .species (0. lateralis) is but single 
brooded in all parts of Colorado from 
the coldest to the warmest. The adults 
hibernate over winter, as do all of the 
tettigonids here, and are common from 
the middle of March into June, most of 
them disappearing by the middle of that 
month; hut a few scattering ones run on 
into July. They lay eggs in May and Jun< 
continue to c >me out through June, the last ones disappearing in August, about the 
15th. Fresh males appeared July 6 — the females not until later— and ran on through 
tlic season, without mating or developing eggs. Thus there is a wide variation in the 
time of appearance of all stages: one could find nearly full grown larvae in June and 
again in August, two months later. From almost daily observations on a single area 
where they were (0111111011. I am very positive that there is hut one brood. 
The difference in latitude between Colorado and Texas— equal to 
that between Washington, D. C, and Jacksonville, Fla. however, 
will easily account for another brood occurring in Texas. 
. 31. — Oncometopia lateralis; adult aud nymph — 
greatly enlarged I author's illustration . 
The first larva' appear about May l'4 and 
MX KII'IION" 
NYMI'll, BY E. I>. H U.I.. 
Head much longer and more inflated than adult, with about the same anterior 
slope. Front Longer and narrower, proportionately, giving the larva a much more 
pointed head 88 viewed from the side, and a long sloping face. Color: pale, creamy 
yellow, a round black spot at apex of head; from this two fairly definite dark stripes 
