662 FAMILY VIII. GRYLLID.E. THE CRICKETS. 



ward fouud to be rather common in the region thereabouts as well 

 as in Kuox, Perry, Dubois, Crawford, Orange and Lawrence coun- 

 ties; the northernmost point at which it has been observed being 

 near Mitchell, Lawrence County. Since its known general range 

 is southern it probably does not occur in the northern half of Hi" 

 State. With us it is found in company with a half dozen species 

 of ants, the most common of which is a rather large yellowish-red 

 form, Camponotus nielleux Say. The cricket seems to be always 

 on the move, and when disturbed leaps with great agility. Those 

 taken in Crawford County in September were almost double the 

 size of those noted in the spring and probably more accurately 

 represent the mature insect. 



At Duuedin four specimens have been taken, each singly be- 

 neath half buried logs, two of them without an ant beneath the 

 logs where they were found. One of them had only one hind leg, 

 yet leaped a foot in height and a distance of 18 inches several 

 times when first uncovered. Dunedin is the most southern station 

 known for I/", perytunlci and it is elsewhere known in Florida only 

 from Crescent City, a single nymph from there being in the Phil- 

 adelphia collection. 



This was the first of these little crickets described from North 

 America, Bruuer's types being from the "Atlantic States from 

 Maryland southward." Its known range now extends from Wash- 

 ington, D. C. west to southern Indiana and south and west to 

 Clayton, Ga. and Dunedin, Fla. In Ohio it has been taken by 

 Diiry near Cincinnati. The other four species of United Slates 

 Myrmecophila are separated by Scudder ( 18!)!)d, 4-.")) only by 

 minor characters of size and color, and it is very probable that 

 two or three of them will prove to be but synonyms or varieties. 

 Brunei" in his original description of /H'ryinidci stated that the 

 characteristic feature of that species is "the two light colored el- 

 liptical markings upon the disk of the pronotum," but these arc 

 not found in any of the Indiana or Florida specimens at hand. 



Subfamily IV. MOGOPLISTIN^E. 

 THE WINGLESS BUSH CRICKETS. 



Small slender-bodied depressed wingless or subapterous Oryl- 

 lids, thinly clothed with translucent, easily abraded scales and 

 having the head short, depressed; vertex truncate in front; upper 

 portion of face strongly swollen, protuberant between the an- 

 tenna 1 , separated from vertex by a transverse sulcus; ocelli very 

 small or absent; eyes well developed not covered by pronotum ; 

 palpi variable in length and form of segments; pronotum of males 



