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night. Its call is delivered only at long and irregular intervals so 
that much patience must be exercised to locate a singer." The 
song consists of a "keen, incisive zee-p, or sometimes three slowly 
in succession — zeep, zeep, zeep." Riley records that- the call is 
occasionally responded to by a faint chirp from the females, 
produced by stretching out their wings as if for flight. 
The method of oviposition has been interestingly described by 
Riley: "The female stations herself firmly by the middle and 
hind legs on twigs or leaves contiguous to the one selected to 
receive the eggs. This leaf is then grasped by the front feet and 
held in a vertical position, while the edge is slightly gnawed or 
pared off by the jaws to facilitate the entrance of the point of the 
ovipositor. When this is done the abdomen is curved under and 
brought forward, and the ovipositor is seized on its convex edge 
by the mandibles and maxillae, which, with the aid of the palpi, 
guide the point to that portion of the leaf prepared to receive it. 
After gentle, but repeated efforts, the point of the instrument is 
finally inserted between the tissues of the leaf, and gradually 
pushed in to more than half its length. As soon as the cavity is 
formed, the egg is extruded, and passed slowly between the semi- 
transparent blades of the ovipositor. As the egg leaves the ovi- 
positor the latter is gradually withdrawn, while the egg remains 
in the leaf, retained in place, probably, by a viscid fluid that is 
exuded with it. As many as five eggs are sometimes deposited in 
one row in the same leaf, but more often they are single." 
European Bush-katydid. 
Leptophyes punctatissima (Bosc). 
Locusta punctatissima Bosc, Actes Soc. d'Hist. Nat. Paris, tab. 1, p. 44, pi. 
10, figs. 5, 6 (1792). 
Leptophyes punctatissima Brunner, Prod. d. Europ. Orth., p. 285 (1882); 
Fernald, Psyche, vol. 14, p. 120 (1907). 
Head broad and short with prominent spherical eyes. Pro- 
notum very short, truncate before and behind, convex in trans- 
verse section, horizontal ( 9 ) or furrowed transversely in longi- 
tudinal section (cf ) by an anterior and a principal sulcus; lateral 
lobes short; humeral sinus lacking. El^^tra of female convex, 
rounded apically;of male bent abruptly down at the sides, flat and 
