410 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
The song is a continous trill, much like that of the Four-spotted 
Tree-cricket, a little higher in pitch, and often seems to possess 
more volume and intensity. It is frequently given in the after- 
noon as well as at night. 
The distribution of this Tree-cricket coincides with that of the 
Four-spotted. It has been taken at Brunswick and Hoxie, Me.; 
Franconia, N. H.; Wood- 
stock, Vt.; and at many 
points in southern New 
England. 
Four-spotted Tree- 
cricket. 
Oecanthus quadripunctatus 
Beutenmiiller. 
Figs. 66 D, 72; Plate 18, fig. D. 
Oecanthus quadripunctatus Beu- 
TENMULLER, Bull. Amer. Mus. 
Nat. Hist., vol. 6, p. 271 
(1894).— Walden, Bull. Geol. 
Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 
159 (Wll). 
Pale greenish white, be- 
coming yellowish when 
dried. First and second an- 
tennal joints each with two 
black marks on under side, 
the inner mark on the first 
joint linear, straight, its dis- 
tal end sometimes curving 
outward toward the outer 
spot which may be either 
small and round or trian- 
gular and prolonged ob- 
liquely outward. Inner spot 
on second joint twice as long 
as wide, nearly in line with that on basal joint; outer spot smaller, 
variable, round or elhptic, and rarely nearly obsolete. Abdomen 
beneath not darkened. 
Fig. 71. — Dusky Tree-cricket, Oecanthus nigri- 
cornis. A, egg-punctures in raspberry (x H); B, 
longitudinal section of the same (x 3) ; C, egg (x 
15); D, projection of egg-cap (x 500); E, egg-cap 
(x50). (After Fulton.) 
