734 FAMILY viii. GRYLLID.T;. THE CRICKETS. 



reaching base of ovipositor, female, their tips subtruncate. Wings want- 

 ing. Ovipositor stout, strongly curved, very minutely serrate. Length of 

 body, (5,4, $, 4.5 5; of tegmina, 2.5; of hind femora, 3.2; of ovipositor, 

 1.5 mm. 



This, one of the smallest of our eastern Ortlioptera, was de- 

 scribed from Thomasville, Ga. and ranges from Atlantic Co., X. 

 Jersey south and southwest to Beaumont and Dickinson, Texas. 

 In Florida it has so far been recorded only from two stations. At 

 Gainesville it was found in numbers by R. & H. (1907) in the 

 wire grass in long-leaf pine woods, while at Pine Island, Hebard 

 found a single pair in similar habitat. It probably occurs in suit- 

 able environment throughout the northern portion of the State. 

 Wherever found it has been taken mainly among the Avire grass 

 and fallen pine needles of dry open pine woods, where its colors 

 harmonize perfectly with its surroundings. The Cuban record of 

 Eehn (11)0!)) was an error, based on a specimen of Aim.rijrtia 

 vittata. 



III. CYRTOXIPHA Saussure, 1874, 373. (Gr., "curved" -4- "sword.") 



Very small slender-bodied bush crickets possessing the charac- 

 ters given in the generic key, and having the head longitudinal, 

 broadly flattened between the eyes; last joint of maxillary palpi 

 shorter than fourth, expanding very strongly from base to apex, 

 the latter squarely truncate; pronotum much narrowed in front; 

 wings always present and prolonged in the form of a tail or 

 queue; front tibia? slightly enlarged at base, with auditory fora- 

 men present on both faces; hind femora very slender; spines of 

 hind tibia? very delicate and but slightly longer than the spaces 

 between their bases. 



KEY TO EASTERN CYRTOXIPHA. 



a. Ovipositor shorter, more slender, not surpassing tips of hind femora, 

 its teeth acute; size somewhat smaller, form more slender. 



347. GUNDLACHI. 



aa. Ovipositor longer and stouter, distinctly surpassing tips of hind fe- 

 mora, its teeth bluntly rounded; size larger, form stouter. 



347a. COLUMBIANA. 



347. CYRTOXIPHA GUNDLACHI Saussure, 1874, 373. Gundlach's Bush Cricket. 

 Uniform pale green fading to brownish-yellow; tips of tibial spines 

 and apical half of ovipositor blackish. Pronotum one-third broader at base 

 than apex, its greatest width one-half more than its length. Tegmina in 

 both sexes surpassing abdomen 2 3 mm., exceeded by wings the same dis- 

 tance, those of males hyaline with tympanum and subapical spectrum much 

 as in AnaxipJia cxigua; those of female with cross veinlets distinct, not 

 prominent, the tips narrowly rounded. Hind femora slightly surpassing 



