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FAMILY VIII. GRYLLIDJE. THE CRICKETS. 



said to be more numerous than short-winged ones, though this is 

 not true in the series at hand from Florida. 



Hebard has placed both the ^V. can us and the male of -V. atcri- 

 imts of Scudder (1896a, 103, 105) and also the N. hastatus Sauss. 

 (1897, 221) as synonyms of y. f. sori UN. Of minis, described from 

 Texas, Seudder states: "This is possibly only a geographic race 

 of fasciatus remarkable for its ciuerous aspect and the striped ap- 

 pearance of the female tegrnina." A female cotype from Dallas, 

 sent me by Scudder, has the ovipositor fully as long as in fascia tits 

 and there is little doubt but that fasciatus, rittatiis, socius. can us 

 and abortiviis should all be merged under DeGeer's name. The 

 trinomial names are retained here only that the student may thus 

 L;bel his specimens if he so desire. 

 321. NEMOBIUS GRISEUS B. M. Walker, 1904, 182. Gray Ground Cricket. 



Size rather small; form moderately slender. Dull reddish-brown cov- 

 ered with fine, short closely appressed gray or brown hairs; occiput dull 

 yellow with three dark fuscous stripes; face piceous; maxillary palpi red- 

 dish-brown, the terminal segment fuscous; lateral lobes of pronotum dark 

 brown their lower margin yellowish. Tegmina translucent, the dorsal 

 field pale brownish-yellow, often with a few fuscous blotches near base, in 

 male narrowly margined with pale yellow; lateral field in great part fus- 

 cous. Femora fuscous-brown with numerous small pale spots. Abdomen 

 above with a median row of large fuscous spots. Disk of pronotum about 

 one-fourth wider than long, sparsely clothed with long black bristles, its 

 front half or more with a distinct impressed median line. Tegmina of 

 male covering three-fourths or more of abdomen, in repose forming an ob- 

 long quadrangle with sides very feebly converging from base, their tips 

 broadly rounded ; of female more than half as long as hind femora with 

 tips broadly obliquely rounded. Wings absent. Ovipositor stout, straight; 

 apical sixth feebly swollen, finely serrulate above. Length of body, $ , 

 6.88, $, 7.68.2; of pronotum, $, 1.41.8, $, 1.62.1; of tegmina, $, 

 44.9, $ 2.83; of hind femora, $, 4.96, 9, 5.7 6.9; of ovipositor, 

 7.28.9 mm. (Fig. 226.) 



Toronto, Ontario, Aug. 916 (Walker). 

 Vigo and Oawford Counties, Ind., Sept. 4- 

 Oct. 9, three males (W.8-B.). The Indiana 

 specimens are in part treated by me (1900, 54; 

 1903, 425), upon the authority of Scudder, as 

 N. cnbcnsis Sauss. Hebard (1913, 434) has 

 placed them as UT'INCHS. They differ from typi- 

 cal male Ontario griscits in being less gray and 

 lacking the fuscous blotches on base of tegmina, 

 in the distinct yellow discoidal veins of teg- 

 mina, and in the single Crawford County one 

 being much larger, it furnishing all the maxi- 



Fig. 226. Female, 



X 3- 



(After Ilebard.) 



mum measurements for that sex above given. 



