SUBFAMILY IV. MOGOPLISTINJE. 665 



31G. CYCLOPTILUM SQUAMOSUM Scudder, 18G8b, 142. Scaly Bush Cricket. 



Size small for the genus. Body elongate-oval, thinly clothed with sil- 

 very or yellowish scales; head and pronotum reddish-yellow, often with a 

 postocular stripe of darker scales, extending as a narrow line along the 

 upper edge of lateral lobes; legs, antennae and mouth parts paler yellow; 

 dorsal surface of abdomen, except at base, fuscous-black, under surface 

 dusky. Terminal joint of maxillary palpi one-third longer than the one 

 preceding, its tip obliquely truncate. Male with disk of pronotum dis- 

 tinctly broadening from apex to base, its apical half rounded into the 

 sides; posterior lobe strongly flattened, longer than the narrow lateral 

 lobes. Tegmina with exposed portion as wide as abdomen, varying in 

 length from .5 to 1.3 mm., its sides embracing those of abdomen. Subgeni- 

 tal plate short, scoop-shaped, its apex entire. Female with pronotum sub- 

 quadrate, slightly narrower in front; tegmina absent; ovipositor about 

 one-third shorter than hind femora, slightly curved upward at base. Other 

 structural characters as above given. Length of body, $ , 5.4 7.5, $ , G 

 7.2; of pronotum, $, 33.4, $, 22.2; of hind femora, $, 3.54.1, 9, 

 3.7 4.4; of ovipositor, 3 3.6 mm. Greatest width of pronotum, $, 2.G 

 2.9, 9, 1.92.1 mm. (Fig. 219.) 



Dunedin, Fla. (W. 8. B.) Carrizo 

 Sin-ings, Texas (Hcbar<1). Only one adult 

 male and several female nymphs have been 

 taken about Dunedin. The former was fonud 

 December 17 while sifting rubbish for 

 beetles. Elsewhere in the State it has been 

 taken by others at Atlantic Beach, San Pablo, 

 Live Oak, Gainesville and Lakeland, mostly 



under boards or on grass or weeds- 

 Fig. 219. Male. Dor- ml 



?ai view of type, x 4. ' ll(> unique male type of Scudder was 



(After R. & H.) ,, rn 



from Texas and the known range of C. squa- 



uiosuin extends from Long Island, N. Y. southward along the coast 

 to Dunedin, Fla. ; westward across Texas and Arizona to the Mo- 

 jave Desert, CaL, and in the middle west north to northern Color- 

 ado, central Nebraska and southern Illinois, three specimens be- 

 ing in the Urbana, 111. collection taken by Hart and Shiga at 

 Metropolis on the Ohio River in that State. It occurs in both 

 moist and dry situations and ranges from sea level to 3,000 feet 

 in elevation. At Oottonwood, Cal. K. & H. (1912a, 212) found it 

 "common under creosote bushes (Corillcii), where among the col- 

 lected refuse the males were heard shrilly stridulating at dusk 

 and later. The sound produced was an incessant and high- 

 pitched zeeee-zeeee-zeeee." Along the Atlantic coast they "have 

 found it under boards and other debris on the ground, usually 

 along the edge of or in forest growth, and almost always in very 

 small numbers- However, at St. Simon's Island, Ga., myriads 



