686 FAMILY VIII. GRYLLID.E. THE CRICKETS. 



small, broadly ovate. Pronotum about one-third wider than long, its apex 

 very slightly narrower than base, its sides and front margin with a few 

 long bristly hairs. Tegmina of male translucent, delicate, covering three- 

 fourths or more of abdomen, often reaching its tip; lateral field widened 

 to embrace the sides of the broad abdomen; of female covering about two- 

 thirds of abdomen, their tips obliquely subtruncate. Wings usually ab- 

 sent, rarely fully developed and much surpassing the abdomen. Ovipositor 

 distinctly though feebly curved, the valves with apical fifth slightly sub- 

 lanceolate and both upper and lower margins curved, the teeth of former 



stout, rather widely and irregularly 

 spaced, those of lower minute, wide- 

 ly separated (Pig. 233.) Length of 



body, $, 7.48.5, Q, 6.58.4; of 

 Fig. .333. Ovipositor of N. carolmus, 



X 13. (After Hebard.) pronotum, $ and 5, 1.7 2; of teg- 



mina, $, 5.5 6, $, 3 3.8; of hind femora, $, 5.5 6.4, 5, 5 6.4; of ovi- 

 positor, 3 3.9 mm. 



This species, the N. exiguus of my former work (1903, 426), 

 occurs throughout Indiana where it is fully one-half as common 

 as the short-winged form of N. fasciatus. It occurs most fre- 

 quently among moist fallen leaves and beneath stones along fence 

 rows and borders of thickets and streams. The long-winged form 

 is very rare, two females, taken in Wells County by E. B. William- 

 son, being the only ones seen from the State. 



Outside of Indiana specimens of N. caroUnus are at hand 

 from De Grassi Point, and Owen's Sound, Out. (Walker] ; South 

 Natick, Mass. (Morse) ; North Carolina (Scndder) ; North Mad- 

 ison, Conn, and Sauford, Lakeland, La Belle, Sarasota and Dune- 

 din, Fla. (W. *S'. B.). About Dunedin it is very scarce in early 

 spring but several long-winged females have been sent me which 

 were taken at light in June. It is recorded from numerous locali- 

 ties from the southern mainland of Florida by K. & H., but the 

 records from the northern part of the State are few. Near Miami, 

 Hebard found it locally common "on sodden leaves under a laby- 

 rinth of roots in a dense red mangrove swamp." 



The known range of N. carolinus is a wide one, extending 

 from Truro, Nova Scotia and New England north and west to the 

 Temagami District, Out., Minnesota and Nebraska and south and 

 southwest to southern Florida and central Texas. From Truro, 

 N. S. but a single male is recorded, but in Ontario Walker 

 (1904, 187, as N. angusticollis) found it, as it is in Indiana, next 

 to fasciatus the most common XeinoJtins in the Province. There, 

 he says: 



"It frequents low grounds of almost any kind, but delights especially 

 in low grassy borders of swampy woods or clearings in swamps. I have 

 found it in abundance in sphagum moss when growing in such localities, 

 but have not met with it in the open peat-bogs where N. palustris occurs. 



