SUBFAMILY III. M YRMECOPHILINJE. li~O 



and south and west to Mississippi, Texas, Southern California, 

 Cuba and Mexico. It is not known from New England nor from 

 Canada. For an insect of so wide a range definite records of E. 

 in i nnt<i are very few. Kostir mentions it as occurring at Colum- 

 bus, Cedar Point and Sugar Grove, Ohio. No locality has been 

 recorded for Michigan, though it doubtless occurs in the Stale. 

 Lugger does not record it from Minnesota though Scudder says 

 he does. Brunei- states that it or T. ini.rtiiK I laid, occurs in Hie 

 south half of Nebraska. McXeill records it from Champaign, 

 111. without other mention. K. & II. (191<>, 284) give a number 

 of records from Virginia south to Georgia, and state that it is 

 found on wet sand near water, often in great numbers over lin- 

 en tire region of the southeastern United States. 



The T. liistrio and T. hish-ionims, described by Saussure from 

 Central America, Texas and Cuba, are placed by Scudder (11)02) 

 as synonyms of E. niiniita. 



Subfamily III. MYRMECOPHILINJE. 

 THE ANT-LOVING CRICKETS. 



As here restricted this subfamily comprises very small, sub- 

 spherical wingless crickets having the ocelli absent; face much 

 narrowed by the very large antennal pits; pronotum in both sexes 

 of much the same form but longer than meso- and metanotum. its 

 lateral lobes very short; fore tibise without a hearing organ; hind 

 femora ovate, compressed, very greatly enlarged; hind tibia? arm- 

 ed above on inner margin with three or four long movable spines; 

 basal joint of hind tarsi distinctly longer and stouter than the 

 other two. 



The subfamily is represented by the single genus : 



I. MYRMECOPHILA Latreille, 1829, 183. (Gr., "ant" + "to love.") 



Form ovate, very convex; head almost hidden beneath the 

 pronotum; vertex rounded, strongly declivent; eyes small, situat- 

 ed above the very large antennal fossa? and usually in great part 

 concealed by the prouotum ; antenme stout, about as long as body, 

 setaceous, their basal joint very large, compressed, the others very 

 short, exceedingly numerous; pronotum slightly wider behind 

 than in front, its fore and hind margins subtruncate; meso- and 

 metanotum similar in form to segments of abdomen, sometimes 

 slightly wider; fore and middle legs slender; hind tibia? shorter 

 than the femora, compressed, lower margin curved, upper one 

 ciliate, its inner carina with three long movable spines, outer ca- 

 riua with one, apex with two pairs of slender spurs, the upper 



