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FAMILY VIII. GRYLLIDJE. THE CRICKETS. 



K. & H. as synonyms of C. antiUaruui. The majority of the rec- 

 ords from Florida have been made under the names of the first 

 two synonyms mentioned. The first specimens from that State 

 were taken by Mrs. A. T. Slossou under bark of fallen trees, and 

 she speaks of them (1901) as "silvery iridescent pearly little 

 creatures, very agile and slippery." 



318. CYCLOPTILUM TRIGONIPALPUM (Rehn & Hebarcl), 1912a, 204. 



"Differs from C. antillarum in the average smaller size, more graceful 

 build, more pronounced interantennal sulcus and very different terminal 

 joint of maxillary palpi, the edges of which, when viewed from the side, 

 form an isosceles triangle since this joint expands widely distad and is 

 very obliquely truncate. Pronotum proportionally narrower and smaller 

 in both sexes; caudal femora less strongly inflated. Subgenital plate of 

 male very slightly less produced obtuse-angulate; of female semi-ovate, 

 broadly obtuse-angulate at apex. Color very similar to that of antillarum. 

 Maxillary palpi never darkly suffused; dorsal surface of abdomen wholly 

 black (Fig. 222.) Length of body, $, 6.87.1, $, 7.88.5; of pronotum, 

 $, 3.74.1, $, 2 2.1; of hind femora, $, 4.2 5, $, 55.5; of ovipositor, 

 46.2 mm." (R. & H.) 



Dimediu and Cape Sable, Flu., 

 March 225 (W.U.B.). About Dune- 

 din the nymphs of this form are fre- 

 quently taken by sweeping low shrubs 

 during the winter months, and adults 

 by beating oak and barberry about the 

 middle of March. In two of the males 

 the tegmina are slightly prolonged be- 

 yond the pronotum- It is very close to 

 <inti11(intnt, the only fixed differential 

 character being that of the form of the 

 terminal joint of palpi. The insects 

 are thickly clothed with nearly trans- 

 parent scales and in the field they fre- 

 quently appear to have the black abdo- 

 men ringed above with whitish scales 



Fig. 222. Dorsal v 

 male type, X 4. 



(After R. & H.) 



of 



at the intersection of the segments. 



^^^^^^ The known range of C. trigonipal- 



puin extends from Petersburg, Va. to Key West, Fla., Agricultural 

 College, Miss, and the Bahama Islands. It has been taken by 

 K. & H. and Davis at numerous stations in both Georgia and Flor- 

 ida, having been found mainly on the shrubby undergrowth of 

 open pine woods, sometimes beneath the loose bark of trees in 

 hammocks. 



