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GRAPE. LEAVES. 
132 . Striped flower cricket, CEcanthus fasciatus, Degecr. 
A slender white cricket very similar to the preceding, but hav¬ 
ing three blackish stripes upon the thorax, the antennae, abdomen 
and legs being also black or dark brown, and the thorax narrowed 
anteriorly. 
This is almost as common as the foregoing, in the State of New- 
York, and the two are often met with associated together upon 
the same shrubbery. And it is this insect which Dr. Harris 
describes as being the female of the preceding species. He evi¬ 
dently was unacquainted with the work of Degeer and the cha¬ 
racters he assigns to these insects, or he would have been aware of 
his error, the marks by which this species is distinguished being 
so plain and so explicitly stated by that author. And the number of 
specimens which he had for inspection must have been quite limited ) 
or he would have been aware of the fact that females occur which 
are of the same white color throughout as the males of niveus, and 
that males occur which have the three black stripes on the thorax 
and the other marks which he supposes are found in females only. 
And though in their size and form these two insects are most 
intimately related to each other, when we come to submit them 
to a careful inspection differences may be detected which, in addi¬ 
tion to their colors, serve to assure us that they are really distinct 
species. Thus, the thorax here is plainly narrowed anteriorly, 
instead of having its opposite sides parallel with each other. The 
thin foliaceous edge at its lower margin on each side here hangs 
perpendicularly downward instead of being curved slightly out¬ 
ward. The furrow along its middle, between the centre and the 
hind edge, is here more deeply impressed, as is also the curved 
line upon each side of this furrow. In the wing covers of the 
male, from the convex side of the curved vein which we have 
named the fiddle-bow three veins are given off which are parallel 
and equidistant from each other, and end in a vein which runs 
lengthwise of the wing, these three veins obviously serving as 
braces to hold the fiddle-bow tense and firm for the important 
office belonging to it. In the present species these three veins are 
straight and run directly into the longitudinal vein at their outer 
ends, whilst in niveus they curve backwards and enter the longi¬ 
tudinal vein very obliquely. The feelers also are rather more 
