In 1902, W. S. Blatchley published the interesting observation that females of the brown bush cricket, Hapithus agitator Uhler, eat the forewings (or tegmina) of the males (p. 458): Of all the males taken, over thirty in number, there was not one with perfect wing-covers [forewings], and, in almost every instance, the wing-covers as well as the rudimentary [hind] wings were wholly absent; while every female had both pairs un[h]armed. I at first ascribed this wing mutilation to the males fighting among themselves, but finally discovered a female in the act of devouring the wings of a male. Blatchley suggested three alternative explanations: Possibly the females require a wing diet to requite them for their bestowed affections, or, perchance, they are a jealous set, and, having once gained the affections of a male, devour his wing covers to keep him from calling other females about him. . . . is more than probable, however, that the mating of the sexes takes place in a similar manner to that of the striped tree cricket [Oecanthus nigricornis F. Walker] . . . the females gnawing away the tegmina of the males in order to more readily reach some seminal glands which lie beneath. The openings of these glands, located on the dorsum of the mesothorax [they are actually on the metathorax], are visible in dried specimens at hand. Fulton (1932) published the second fragment of information concerning mating behavior in this cricket when he noted (p. 69) that: It apparently seldom sings and the sound is so faint that it is doubtful if it could be heard where other insects are singing. A male caged with a female was once caught in the act of singing while following the female about the cage. Its song was a creaky, fluttering sound, continued for 15 to 25 seconds at a time, so weak that I had to hold one ear close to the top of the jar in which the insects were confined in order to hear it distinctly. The stridulatory vein of a specimen of Hapithus examined under a microscope showed only 35 rather widely spaced teeth. Nibbling or palpating the dorsum of the male is a widespread behavior among the females of crickets, katydids, and cockroaches in which the female mounts upon the male's back during copulation (Alexander and Brown 1963; Alexander 1964). In at least one other orthopteran, a Russian katydid, Bradyporus tuberculatus Fischer-Waldheim, the female bites at the male's dorsum and causes bleeding, then feeds on the blood (Boldyrev 1928). In most other cases there are dorsal glands, single or double, either elaborate or else diffuse and obscurely differentiated, which occupy the female's attention while she is maneuvered into position, while the spermatophore tube is being inserted, and (sometimes) while the spermatophore is emptying the sperm into her spermathecal tube (Alexander and Otte in press). The glandular area on the metanotum of H. agitator is probably homologous with Hancock's gland in Oecanthinae (Fulton 1915); it is represented in dried specimens by a