680 



FAMILY VIII. GRYLLIDJB. THE CRICKETS. 



6.58.4, $, 7.59; of pronotum, $, 1.82, $, 1.92.2; of tegmina, $, 

 3.54.3, 5, 23.2; of hind femora, $, 5.26, $, 6.16.8; of ovipositor, 

 56.8 mm. (Fig. 228.) 



Fig. 227. Ovipositor of N. maculatus, X I2 - (After Hebard.) 



This handsome mottled species occurs sparingly throughout 

 Indiana, frequenting for the most part low, dry open woods and 

 borders of thickets. In Marion County I once found it quite fre- 

 quent on October 6 amongst dead leaves and beneath logs where 

 the ground ivy, Nepeta glechoma L., covered most of the earth. A 

 week later, a heavy hoar-frost meanwhile intervening, not a speci- 

 men could be found. 



From the short-winged form of X. fas- 

 ciatus this species is readily distinguished 

 by its average smaller size, shorter tegmina 

 of female, shorter and straighter oviposi- 

 tor, fewer hairs on head and pronotum and 

 finer cross- vein lets of female tegmina. 

 The serrulations of the ovipositor are 

 sharper than in fasciatus. The two also 

 differ in color, the ground of uiaculatus 

 being paler and the piceous more generally 

 sprinkled where in fasciatus it is in length- 

 wise bars. 



Fig. 228. Female, X 

 (After Hebard.) 



The known range of N- maculatus ex- 



tends from New Canaan, Conn, and Long 

 Island, N. Y. west to northern Indiana and south and southwest 

 to Maryland, Virginia, Raleigh, N. Car. and Rabun Co., Ga. It 

 is not definitely recorded from any locality in Illinois or Michi- 

 gan, though it doubtless occurs in the former and probably in the 

 latter State. Walker's record (1904, 185) from Tobermory, Ont. 

 is said by Hebard to be based upon a small fasciatus. It has been 

 taken at several stations in Ohio and at Clarksville, Tenn. About 

 Washington, D. C. it is said to be common, but Fox records only 

 a single female from Tappahanuock in his Virginia paper. No 

 macropterous specimens are known. 

 323. NEMOBIUS AMBITIOSUS Scudder, 1877a, 81. 



Size small; form compact, robust. Dark reddish-brown; males often 

 with a yellowish and females with a grayish tinge. Head vertically com- 

 pressed, the occiput very convex, reddish-brown, with a broad shining 



