688 FAMILY VIII. GRYLLIDJE. THE CRICKETS. 



Kosciusko, Knox and Posey counties, Ind., Aug. 17 Oct. 2.~ 

 (W.8.B.) ; Cabin John Run, Md. (Dai- is)- This sombre-hued lit- 

 tle cricket was first found in Kosciusko Co. Aug. 2G, 1902, in some 

 low, damp woods bordering Tippecanoe Lake. Here it had its 

 home among the fallen leaves and beneath small chunks and chips. 

 From Posey County a single specimen was procured also from a 

 tract of low woods and on Oct. 5, 1917, about twenty were taken 



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from beneath dead leaves on the side of a thickly wooded little 

 slope leading down to the margin of a cypress swamp in Knox 

 County. It appears that I had no males in the type series of 

 confusus taken at Tippecanoe Lake and unfortunately got hold 

 of a male of N. maculatus in drawing up the original description, 

 so that the characters therein pertaining to that sex are mis- 

 leading. 



Outside of Indiana N. confusus has been recorded from a num- 

 ber of stations in Maryland and Virginia, from Raleigh, N. Car. 

 and from Rabun County and Buckhead, Ga. At Raleigh Briinley 

 (1908, 21) found it "in damp places not far from water from 

 mid-August to late November," while at Buckhead a nymph was 

 taken by R- & H. from the undergrowth of mixed oak and pine 

 forest. No niacropterous specimens are known. 



It seems that each of the different species of this genus taken 

 in Indiana has its special abiding place, fasciatus and carolinus 

 being the only ones which may be looked for anywhere in open 

 fields and along roadways; maculatus occurs in open woods 

 usually in drj- situations; griscus in sandy districts; variegatus 

 along the banks of streams and on gravelly hillsides ; palustris no- 

 where except among the sphagnum mosses of dense swamps and 

 bogs, while confusus likes best the shadows of dense woods which 

 are low and moist. Each form has, therefore, its special habitat 

 where the food on which it thrives is most abundant, and where, 

 during the ages past, it has become so modified in organ and 

 hue as to receive from man a distinctive specific name. 



II HYGRONEMOBIUS Hebard, 1913a, 451. (Gr., "moist" -(- 



"grove-dweller." ) 



Small compact crickets closely allied to Nemobius^ and hav- 

 ing the body pubescent, sparsely clothed with hairs, head and 

 pronotum similar to 'Xcnioblus, the lower front angles of lateral 

 lobes rectangular and much sharper than the lower hind ones; 



s Also very close to Pseudonemobius Sauss. (1877, 231, 234; 1878, 510), the differen- 

 tial characters given by Saussure in his key being almost exactly the same as those given 

 by Hebard for the present genus. 



