SUBFAMILY VIII. ICXKOl'TICUI.VK. 737 



it may often be seen vibrating its large maxillary palpi in a rapid 

 and curious manner. Uhler's types were from Maryland where 

 lie said it "was found quite abundantly amongst the grass and 

 low bushes near ditches and jumps about with great rapidity." 



The known range of P. pulclicllns extends from Stateu Island. 

 X. Y., west to central Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois and south 

 and soutlnvest to central Florida and northern Georgia. In 

 Florida it appears to be very scarce, having been taken, as far as 

 known, only at Jacksonville, Monticello, Gainesville and Sanford. 

 Of its habits on Stateu Island Davis (1806) says: ''It commonly 

 occurs on bushes and young trees and is often discovered on the 

 sweet gum. If there is a dead curled leaf on the branch a male 

 cricket will crawl within the chamber thus formed and sing. This 

 is particularly the case on chilly days in the fall." 



Allard (191Gb) writing of pulcliellus, as noted at Thompson's 

 Mills, Ga., says: 



"This pretty cricket dwells on shrubbery usually within two or three 

 feet of the ground, and is musical both by day and at night. It is most 

 abundant in low grounds bordering streams, although I have occasionally 

 found it in thickets in upland situations, and even in the foliage of as- 

 ters and cotton plants. Its song is a weak, high-pitched trill recalling 

 that of Oecanthus quadripunctatus. although not as smooth and as uniform 

 in tone. Heard close at hand, the trill is wavering, irregular, with an at- 

 tendant unmusical shuffling or scraping of the wings, as if these were 

 rather slowly and loosely vibrated upon each other. During the act of 

 singing the tegmina are elevated almost perpendicular to the back, as is the 

 habit in Oecanthus, a rather unusual procedure for almost all our other 

 species of crickets." 



Subfamily VIII. ENEOPTERIN^E. 

 THE LARGER BROWN BUSH CRICKETS. 



Crickets of medium size and usually slender form, having the 

 body and legs finely pubescent; head as wide or wider than 

 pronotum; occiput convex; vertex forming a blunt oblong pro- 

 tuberance between the basal joints of antenna? ; this bearing near 

 its middle the anterior ocellus and near its base each side one of 

 the other two; eyes widely separated, rather small, not promin- 

 ent; antennse setaceous, not more than three times the length of 

 body; pronotum subquadrate; tegmina not usually reaching the 

 tip of abdomen ; wings present, usually concealed by the tegmina ; 

 fore and middle legs slender, their tibia? and femora unarmed, 

 the basal joint of their tarsi but little if any longer than the third : 

 hind femora only moderately enlarged ; hind tibia 1 armed above 

 on each margin with six to eight rather slender spines with small 



