742 



FAMILY VIII. GKYLLID.E. THE CRICKETS. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF OROCHARIS. 



a. Beak of vertex not compressed, wider than basal joint of antennae, its 

 apex rounded; ocelli very small, widely separated; pronotum 

 thickly pubescent, one-half wider than long. 351. SALTATOR. 



aa. Beak of vertex compressed, narrower than basal joint of antennas, its 

 apex subacute; ocelli large, transverse, subcontiguous; pronotum 

 scarcely wider than long, almost smooth. 352. GRYLLODES. 



351. OROCHARIS SALTATOR Uhler, 1864, 545. Jumping Bush Cricket. 



Color more or less dimorphic, usually a nearly uniform pale reddish- 

 brown, the face flecked with darker brown, sometimes with a faint brown 

 ish or fuscous stripe along the side of head and pronotum; often grayish 

 more or less maculate with fuscous, when of the latter hue the tegmina of 

 female each usually with a small black basal spot and with cross-veinlets 

 darker than those running lengthwise, thus giving the dorsal field a 

 checkered appearance; humeral vein of tegmina in male often yellow; 

 spines of hind tibiae tipped with fuscous. Pronotum about one-half wider 

 than long, its base but slightly wider than apex. Ovipositor dark brown, 

 about a third longer than hind femora, nearly straight. Other structural 

 characters under the genus heading. Length of body, $ and 9, 14 16; 

 of pronotum, $, 2.32.7, ?, 2.42.9; of tegmina, g, 1114, $.1314.5; 

 of hind femora, $, 78, , 810; of ovipositor, 1113 mm. (Fig. 246.) 



This slender bodied bush cricket occurs in 

 small numbers throughout the southern half of 

 Indiana, frequenting the undergrowth of dense 

 woods, the thickets along the borders of streams 

 and the shrubbery of orchards and yards. A 

 half dozen specimens were once found on Aug. 

 22 concealed in the folds of an old coat hang- 

 ing in a grape arbor near the center of the city 

 of Indianapolis. When disturbed it often seeks 

 safety in flight and when it alights flattens 

 out its body close against its resting place. 



In Florida it is much more common than 

 in Indiana, scores of specimens in both nymph 

 and adult stages having been taken about Dun- 

 ediu during the winter and spring months. 

 PI Female There it is often beaten from the lower limbs 



(After Lugger.) o f oa ] i anc j o th e r trees and also from bunches 

 of leaves, and especially the large epiphyte, Ttil<in<1xi<i utrh-iiJatu 

 L., in which it is hibernating. Elsewhere in the State I have 

 taken it at Ormond, Sanford, Utopia, Lakeland, Cape Sable and 

 Ft. Myers. By other collectors it is mentioned only from Jack- 

 sonville, Silver Springs, Pablo Beach and Miami. 



The known range of 0. saltator extends from New Jersey west 



