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black bar between the eyes; face also shining piceous, sharply separated 

 from the black above by a narrow ivory-white bar (Fig. 224, &, c) ; last 

 joint of maxillary palpi fuscous, the preceding one dull yellow. Tegmina 

 of male piceous with the narrow margins (discoidal veins) and extreme 

 tips pale yellow. Legs reddish-brown flecked with fuscous; outer face of 

 hind femora with two fuscous stripes, the lower one the more distinct; 

 basal third or more of dorsum of abdomen piceous, the remainder dark 

 brown. Disk of pronotum subquadrate, very slightly wider than long. 

 Tegmina of female often in great part buffy, flecked with darker brown, 

 less than half as long as hind femora, the tips of dorsal field obliquely 

 rounded; those of male covering three-fourths or more of abdomen, and 

 forming an even oblong quadrangle with sides parallel and tips broadly 

 rounded, wings absent. Ovipositor straight, its apex not thickened, finely 

 serrulate above. Length of body, $, 5.9 7.8, 9, G 8.2; of pronotum, $, 

 1.21.9; $, 1.62.1; of tegmina, $, 3.24.5, $, 2.23.3: of hind femora. 

 $, 4.86, 9, 4.96.3; of ovipositor, 46 mm. 



Ormond, Ft. Keed, Lake Istokpoga, Ft. Myers, Sarasota, Lake- 

 land and Dunedin, Fla. (W.8.B. ) ; Macon, Ga. (Fox). I first 

 saw this handsome and well marked little cricket at Ormond in 

 March 1899 where it was frequent among dead leaves and short 

 grasses along the roadways, hedge-rows and borders of the pine 

 woods. About Dunedin it is by far the most common of the three 

 ground crickets there taken, both nymphs and adults occurring 

 in numbers throughout the Aviuter, especially among and beneath 

 the dead leaves and other debris in dry sandy open oak and pine 

 woods. The numerous records by other collectors show that it oc- 

 curs in like situations throughout the mainland of the State, 

 adults being found during every month of the year. 



The known range of awbitiosus is limited, extending from 

 eastern South Carolina and northern Georgia south to Homestead. 

 Fla. Only the brachypterous form is known. Allard (1911a, 156) 

 describes its habits and song in northern Georgia as follows: 

 "This pretty NenwMus is the first species to appear at Thompson's 

 Mills and dwells among leaves in deciduous woods. It is especially 

 common on a warm, heavily wooded slope bordering a small brook 

 just east of the settlement. The trill is very brief, high-pitched 

 and shrill, tiiiiiiii-tiiiiiitiiiiiiii-tiiiiiiii. It is one of the common- 

 est species of N en-whins in this vicinity and begins to stridulate 

 as soon as spring opens in March and April. In April, 1910, very 

 cold periods of weather with considerable sleet and snow com- 

 pletely silenced these hardy crickets. Notwithstanding this in- 

 clement weather these crickets were always in active stridulation 

 as soon as the days became warmer." 



