SUBFAMILY I. GRYLLOTALPIN^E. 653 



Port Tampa Fla., Feb. 7. Ybor City, Fla., Nov. 7- This is the 

 only species of these lesser mole crickets definitely recorded from 

 Florida. In addition to the above localities it has been taken at 

 Lemon City, Miami, Key West and Ft. Myers by R. & H. or Davis. 

 At Key West it was found on the sea beach in burrows in the 

 damp sand and at Miami Hebard (191;jb) "dug it out of sandy 

 soil in a grape fruit grove. Individuals were found to burrow but 

 a few inches beneath the surface, corning to feed beneath decay- 

 ing grape fruit. Everywhere about Miami in sandy soil this in- 

 sect, which is locally called 'cricket mole/ is said to do decided 

 damage, particularly to farm truck. It is reported to have been 

 introduced in this region in manure from Key West. The soft 

 fat abdomen is in life whitish and distinctly paler than the hard 

 portions of the insect." Specimens in the Gainesville collection 

 are dark fuscous in general hue, the legs and scattered spots 

 alone paler. This short-winged species was described from Per- 

 n;iinbuco, Brazil, and is recorded only from that country, the 

 West Indies, Southern Florida and White Oak, Ga. 



312. SCAPTERISCUS ACLETUS Rehn & Hebard, 1916, 279. Unwelcome Mole 

 Cricket. 



"Size medium, form rather slender. Pinkish-buff; head with occiput 

 blackish-brown ; dorsum of pronotuni with an oval of blackish-brown, this 

 interrupted cephalad and mesad by rounded incursions from each side of 

 pinkish-buff; tegmina and wings buffy with veins darker; caudal femora 

 except the proximal fourth of dorso-external portion suffused with darker; 

 abdomen dark above, pale below. Lateral ocelli over twice as long as 

 broad. Tegmina similar to vicimts, the veins not as heavy and cross vein- 

 lets fewer; wings slightly surpassing apex of abdomen. Dactyls of cep- 

 halic tibiae separated by a space equal to basal width of one of the dactyls. 

 Spatula with distal half of ventral margin chitinous, straight, the disto- 

 ventral angle nearly rectangulate, sharply rounded (Fig. 214, c, i.) Me- 

 dian tibiae armed interno-distad with four heavy spurs. Caudal tibiae with 

 ventro-internal margins each bearing four long spines, the last situated 

 slightly proximad of the three long distal spurs; disto-external margin 

 with three short spurs, the dorsal one widely separated from the other two. 

 Distal joint of caudal tarsus slender, no wider than metatarsus (Fig. 215.) 

 Length of body, $, 26.434.4, $, 26.535.5; of pronotum, $, 8.811.3, 

 $, 8.510.3; of tegmina, $, 14.617.8, $, 1519.2; of caudal femora, $, 

 1011.7, 5, 10.212 mm. Width of pronotum, 6.4 8. 9 mm." (7?. & H.) 



This species is known only from Jesup, Hebardville and White 

 Oak. Ga. At Hebardville, "the type locality, it was found in 

 great numbers in sandy soil. Tunnels recently made were every- 

 where apparent. Digging into these and the flooding of such 

 areas revealed few examples, but a row of lettuce in a dying con- 

 dition was investigated, and beneath the wilted leaves, resting on 



