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another narrow pale line runs backward from the eye. Mouth- 
parts more or less purple, brightest on the labrum; tips of man- 
dibles, labium, hind tibiae, and all tarsi brownish purple. 
Measurements. 
Total Body Tegmina Hind fcm. Antenna Ovipos. Tcg.>H. feni. 
Male 45-50 23-27 30.5-39 18-20.5 28-33 14-17 
Female.... 53-61 27-31 43 -50 20-23 28-33 28-33 20-23 mm. 
This is our commonest — and, in New England, the most widely 
distributed — Coneheaded Grasshopper. It lives in cornfields 
and in grasslands, either dry 
or moist, but not marshy. 
Its distribution extends from 
Norway in southwestern 
Maine, southward to Phila- 
delphia, the mountains of 
North Carolina, and west to 
North Dakota and Colorado. 
It matures in late July or 
early August, and is common 
throughout the latter month and most of September. Brown indi- 
viduals are not rare but are greatly outnumbered by green. The 
note which it produces is not loud but is heard constantly where 
the species is numerous. It has been described as a soft and lisp- 
ing tzip, tzip, tzip, tzip, rapidly repeated for indefinite periods. 
Fig. 53. — The Sword-bearer, Neoconocephalua 
ensiger. Male. (After Lugger.) 
Robust Conehead. 
Neoconocephalus robustus (Scudder). 
Plate 15, figs. 1-4, 17. 
ConocephaliLs robustus Scudder, Boston Joum. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, p. 449 
(1862).— Smith, Rapt. Ct. Bd. Agric. for 1872, p. 359 (1873).— Fernald, 
Orth. N. E., p. 23 (1888).— Walden, Bull. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 
16, p. 135 (1911). 
Measurements. 
Body Tegmina Hind fem. 
29-31 40-44.6 23-24 
49.6 26.4 
Total 
Male 51-56.5 
Female .... 
Antenna Ovipos. Teg. >H. fem. 
38-42 13-18 
26.7 
This is a stout-bodied Conehead which is not uncommon coast- 
wise in New England from Cape Cod southward in August and 
