692 FAMILY VIII. GRYLLIDJE. THE CRICKETS. 



Oecantlins" Fox (1917) reports that about Tappahannock, Ya. 

 they are "frequent iu fields and pastures and along fence rows, 

 nocturnal in habits, singing at or close to the mouth of the 

 burrow." 



The following names are now regarded as synonyms of A 

 iniiticus: Achcta guaileloupcnsis Fab. (1793, 32) ; Gryllits angns- 

 titlus F. Walker (1809, 27) and (injJlodes cl<ir<i.:i<inus and G. c<ir- 

 llmis Sanss. (1874, 412, 413). 



IV. GRYLLODES Saussure, 1874, 409. (Gr., "a leaper.") 



Medium sized crickets of slender form having the head short, 

 occiput not strongly convex; antenna? very slender, twice as long 

 as body, the basal joint large, compressed, as wide or wider than 

 the inter-antenna! protuberance; pronotum short, transverse, 

 about one-half wider than long, hind margin of lateral lobes very 

 oblique; tegmina variable in length, in our species much shorter 

 than abdomen, the mediastinal vein undivided, female, one-branch- 

 ed, male; front tibia? without a tympanum on inner face; hind 

 tibia? with five or six spines on each margin, the inner middle and 

 lower subapical spurs subequal; ovipositor straight, very slender, 

 longer than hind femora. 



Kirby (19flf>, 40) recognized 5(3 species as belonging to the 

 genus, most of them tropical in distribution. Only one has be- 

 come established in the eastern United States- 

 331. GRYLLODES SIGILLATUS (F. Walker), 1869, 46. Decorated Cricket. 



Form depressed, slender, pubescent. General color pale brownish- 

 yellow mottled and banded with dark brown; head with a cross-bar be- 

 tween the eyes, another, less distinct, at hind border of occiput, and a 

 vertical stripe between the antennae, dark brown; pronotum with a basal 

 and median brown cross-bar, the former curving forward onto lateral lobes, 

 the latter interrupted; tegmina pale brown; legs mottled with dark brown: 

 abdomen in great part brown mottled with yellow. Head obliquely de- 

 pressed. Tegmina of male covering half the abdomen, the stridulating 

 organ large, tips broadly rounded; of female very short lateral pads, with 

 tips of both dorsal and costal field obliquely truncate. Wings absent. 

 Legs slender. Length of body, $ , 14 16, 9 , 15 21; of pronotum, $ and 

 $, 3 3.5; of tegmina, $, 56, $, 1.72.3; of hind femora, $, 9.510, 

 9, 1113; of ovipositor, 1216 mm. 



Miama and Big Pine Key, Fla., Sept. 25 Oct. 4 (Da rift) ; Dun- 

 edin, Fla., Jan. 27, nymph (W.8.B.) Recorded also from num- 

 erous stations in southern Florida and on the keys, Lakeland 

 being the most northern. The first record for the United States 

 was that of R. & H. ( 1905) from Miami, where Hebard found them 

 in numbers in Februarv beneath bricks and between stones. "The 



