402 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Thoreau a "slumbrous breathing" and "intenser dream"; 
"Hawthorne has given it a more spiritual interpretation than 
either Burroughs or Thoreau. He describes it as an 'audible 
stillness,' and declares if 'moonlight could be heard, it would 
sound hke that ' " (McNeill). 
In producing the call, the tegmina of the male are raised at 
right angles to the body, exposing a hollow on the metanotum 
into which a secretion is poured from glands in the body, which is 
attractive to the female. Drawn by the call she climbs over his 
Fig. 67 
Fig. 66. — Basal antennal segments of Tree-crickets. A, Snowy Tree-cricket, Oecanthus niveus; 
B, Narrow-winged Tree-cricket, Oe. angusiipennis; C, Davis' Tree-cricket, Oe. exclamationis; D, 
Four-spotted Tree-cricket, Oe. quadripunctatus; E, Pine Tree-cricket, Oe. pini; F, Dusky Tree- 
cricket, Oe. nigricornis, light form; G, same, dark form; H, Broad-winged Tree-cricket, Oe. 
latipennis; I, Two-spotted Tree-cricket, Neoxabea bipunclata. (After Fulton.) 
Fig. 67. — Broad-winged Tree-cricket, Oecanthus latipennis. A, egg-punctures in grape (x IJ) ; 
B, longitudinal section showing eggs in goldenrod (x 3); C, egg (x 15); D, projection of egg-cap 
(x 500) ; E, egg-cap (x 50) . (After Fulton.) 
Note. — The Broad-winged Tree-cricket (Oecanthus latipennis) has not yet been recorded from 
New England, but is found in New York State, and is included here for convenience. 
