SI'UFAMILY VII. TRIGONIDIIN^]. 



731 



Virginia Fox found it on *sV/Y/>H.s- <iicr'n-<ni<i I'ers. 

 in a tidal marsh. Allard (I'.llOb) describes the 

 habits and nots of c.ri(/it<i in north Georgia as fol- 

 lows: "This pretty cricket is very active, and 

 not readily captured in its natural hiding places 

 in the dense vegetation of wet situations. Its 

 notes are a faint, shrill, prolonged tinkling 

 ti-li-ti-ti-ti-ti-ti-li. Dwelling in almost impene- 

 trable tangles, it is exceedingly difficult to sep- 

 arate the notes of the single singer from among 

 the tiny tinkling medley which seems to pervade 

 the atmosphere of the locality. This cricket is 

 musical by day and at night." 

 343. AXAXIPHA PULICARIA ( Burmeister ) , 1838, 732. 



Pale brownish-yellow, often with a slight infusca- 

 tion on head, pronotum and hind femora; basal dorsal 

 segments of abdomen brown. Pronotum more than one- 

 half wider than long, distinctly widening from apex to 

 base. Tegmina much longer and narrower than in 

 exigua, reaching 2 to 4 mm. beyond tip of abdomen, 

 male, to its tip, female. Tympanum of male one-half 

 cr more longer than its width. Other characters as in 

 key. Length of body, $, 4.5 5; of tegmina, <J , 5, $, 

 3; of hind femora, $ and 9, 4 5; of ovipositor 

 2.2 mm. 



Fig. :?44. F 

 male, much e 

 larged. 



(After Lugger.) 



This small compact Gryllid has been taken 

 by me at Dunedin, Fla., where it was found 

 in small numbers in March on the low herb- 

 age of a recently cleared garden tract in the midst of a dense 

 hammock. There it occurred in company with Acri/<liin>i <irco- 

 sii in l>ltcltleyi and other ground frequenting Orthoptera. A single 

 male was taken Feb. 7 on Hog Island while sweeping low shrubs, 

 and another at Lakeland Feb. 16, from between the stems and 

 leaf sheaths of a saw-grass. It was described from Jamaica, is 

 known also from Mexico and in this country from Raleigh, X. Car. 

 southwest to Brownsville, Tex. In Florida it has been taken by 

 others at Gainesville, Miami, Sand Point and Ft. Reed, Scudder's 

 types of Cyrtoj-ipJui (Idh-iiinla (1877a, 82) from Ft. Reed having 

 been based on the long-winged form of A. puli<-<iri<i as shown by 

 R. & H. (l!)12c.) It appears to be much less thamnophilous in hab- 

 its than c,ri(/ii<i being more often found in tangles of low grasses, 

 weeds and vines in moist woods and on the edges of the salt 

 marshes. 



