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14. 5; of pronotum, $ and 9, 4 5.7; of fore femora, $, 5 6, $, 4.5 7; 

 of hind femora, $, 12.517.5, 5, 11.314.8; of hind tibiae, $, 13.518, 

 2, 11.7 15; of ovipositor, 4.5 6 mm. 



A careful study of the type of C. saUci Scudder (1894 63) at 

 Cambridge and direct comparison with that of C. ccecus from Lex- 

 ington, Ky., shows no material difference except in size- The form 

 of the subgenital and supra-anal plate in each is the same and the 

 very distinctive teeth of the ovipositor exactly similar. 1 have, 

 therefore, combined the two. Scudder separated them in his key 

 only by the size, slightly different color and the relatively longer 

 hind tibia? of the smaller northern form circus which has page 

 priority of name. The C. ccecus as such is definitely known only 

 from the one male and two females taken by Garman at Lexing- 

 ton, Ky., June 28, and which served as Scudder's types and a sec- 

 ond male in the Lexington collection taken by Garman at Hick 

 man, Ky. C. saUei was described from New Orleans and recorded 

 by K. & H. (1916, 274) from De Funiak Springs, Fla. The type 

 of C. occult us Scudder (1894, 77), a female from Georgia in the 

 Cambridge collection, is a nymph of his C. saUci. The two other 

 specimens by its side and probably considered occultus by Scud- 

 der, are a pair of immature C. tenebrannn. 

 306. CEUTHOPHILUS PEXINSULAEIS R. & H., 1914c, 408. 



This is based upon a male nymph so immature that its proper rela- 

 tionship cannot be fixed. It is colored much like latens with the median 

 pale stripe of dorsum more narrow. The subgenital plate of male is deeply 

 cleft, the lobes incurved at tip; supra-anal tongue-shaped and with a deep 

 median lengthwise groove; infracercal plates present and black in hue. 



The unique type was taken near Homestead, Fla., from be- 

 neath a coquiua boulder near the edge of pine woods- Two still 

 smaller nymphs, named C. pcninsttluris for me by Hebard, are in 

 my collection from Duuedin, Fla. 



Family VIII. GRYLLID^E. 



THE CRICKETS. 



"And crickets sing at the oven's mouth, 



As the blither for the drouth." Shakespeare. 



"The crickets are heard in the grass, chirping from everlasting to 

 everlasting." Tlioreau. 



The fourth family of Orthoptera belonging to the suborder 

 Saltatoria comprises the Gryllida? or crickets. From the other 

 leaping Orthoptera they are distinguished mainly by the charac- 

 ters given in the key, page 149. They have the form usually sub- 

 cylindrical, robust; head broad, usually perpendicular or nearly 



