SUBFAMILY V. GRYLLIX.i:. 683 



The known range of 2V. varicgatus extends from Maryland and 

 Virginia west to northeastern Nebraska and south and southwest 

 to Charlotte, N. Car. and Wichita, Kansas. It appears to be very 

 late in reaching maturity, all of the Indiana specimens having 

 been taken in October, and none of the adults recorded elsewhere 

 from our territory earlier than Sept. 6. No macropterous individ- 

 uals are known. 



325. NEMOBIUS CUBENSIS Saussure, 1874, 384. Cuban Ground Cricket. 



Size small and form slender for the genus. Dull brownish-yellow; 

 occiput, pronotum and tegmina fuscous brown, often with small paler 

 markings; dorsal surface of abdomen black; cerci brown. Head as wide 

 as base of pronotum, compressed vertically. Disk of pronotum evidently 

 but feebly narrowed from base to apex, about one-third wider than long, 

 sparsely clothed with long black bristles. Tegmina in both sexes nearly 

 or fully as long as abdomen, those of male forming in repose an oblong 

 quadrangle with sides feebly converging from base, their tips rounded; of 

 female slightly narrowed toward apex, their tips narrowly rounded. Wings 

 usually fully developed, twice as long as tegmina and surpassing tip of 

 ovipositor 2 3 mm.; sometimes absent. Ovipositor feebly curved, its apex 

 sublanceolate with tips very finely serrulate above (Fig. 230.) Length of 

 body, $, 5.77.2, $, 5.67.4; of pronotum, $, 1.21.7, $, 1.31.7; of 

 tegmina, $, 3.94.8, $, 34.9; of hind femora, 3, 4.25.6, 9, 4.75.6; 

 of ovipositor, 2.7 4 mm. 



O r m o n d, LaBelle 

 and Lake Okeechobee, 

 Fla., Mch. G Apr. 13 



Ovipositor of N. cnbcnsis, X *7- ( ^ & -^ ' Wasllillg- 



( After Hcbard. ) T . /-, . ro 



ton, 1). C., Aug- 28 



(('<iinl<'11}. In Florida it has been recorded from numerous 

 points throughout the mainland but not from the southern keys. 

 The general distribution in our territory is southern and sub- 

 maritime, extending from Staten Island, N. Y. to Homestead, Fla. 

 It was originally described from Cuba, Mexico and Brazil. 



The long-winged or typical form of cubensis is more generally 

 known than the short-winged one as most of the specimens in col- 

 lections were taken at light. R, & H. (1912) found the brachyp- 

 terous form in numbers March IT in the high grass of the ever- 

 glades at Homestead, Fla., and Hebard (1915b) records the short- 

 winged form from bare muck in a red mangrove swamp at Cape 

 Florida and Key Biscayne. Fox found a single female at Tappa- 

 hannock, Va., on a road through a tidal marsh, so that the natural 

 home of the species is probably in or among the tall grasses of 

 marshes and tidal flats. 



