682 FAMILY VIII. GRYLLIDJE. THE CRICKETS. 



324. NEMOBIUS VARIEGATUS (Bruner), 1893a, 32. Smaller Spotted Ground 



Cricket. 



Size medium; form robust. Dull clay yellow, mottled with blackish- 

 brown; face below the antennae shining dark brown; occiput, disk of pro- 

 notum and femora mottled with fuscous; apical half of terminal segment 

 of maxillary palpi brown; tegmina translucent brownish-yellow, the upper 

 third of lateral field with a blackish bar; dorsal field in female often with 

 black fleckings; the mottled appearance sometimes due, however, to the 

 black of dorsal surface of abdomen shining through them. Head large, 

 rounded, as wide as pronotum, both it and the latter with scattered long 

 bristly black hairs. Pronotum nearly one-third wider than long, its apical 

 two-thirds with a feebly impressed median line. Tegmina of male as long 

 as hind femora, reaching tip of abdomen; those of female covering half the 

 abdomen, their tips broadly obtusely rounded. Wings absent. Ovipositor 

 dark brown, a little upcurved, moderately stout, the apical serrulated por- 

 tion longer than usual, nearly one-fourth the entire length, the teeth rather 

 stout with sharp tips (Fig. 229.) Length of body, $ , 6.4 7.5, 9, 6.69.4; 

 of pronotum, $, 1.41.7, 9, 1.92; of tegmina, $, 3.94.4, 9, 2.83.7; 

 of hind femora, $, 4.7 5.6, 9, 6 6.7; of ovipositor, 3.4 4.1 mm. 



Marion, Yigo, Put- 

 nam and Knox counties, 

 Tnd-, Oct. 127. In Tn- 



Fig. ,, 9 . Ovipositor of N, variegatus, X M- diail{l tlllS Pettily 



marked little species 



has been found to be rather common on the grass-covered banks 

 of streams and along the fence rows of open woods in the counties 

 mentioned and it probably occurs in like situations throughout 

 the southern two-thirds of the State. In general appearance it is 

 a diminutive form of N. maculatus above described, but its small 

 size and short arcuate ovipositor at once distinguish it. 



This is the Y- carol inns Scudd. of my former works 

 (1900, 1003), it having been so named for me by Seudder from 

 specimens sent him for examination. As shown by me (1003, 427 1 

 it was also regarded as the species called Cyrtoxyphus! i~a rice/at us 

 Bruner. Hebard has shown that the true -A T . carol in us is a differ- 

 ent insect and has redescribed (1013, 452) the present species as 

 .A. ~bnmeri, claiming (p. 455) that Bruner's name "was unidenti- 

 fiable from the literature." In a previous letter (Jan. 16, 1013) he 

 wrote: "This species must be called Xcinoliiiix raricc/atus (Brun- 

 er) as this is the earliest description and the type specimen is in 

 my collection. Bruner called it a Cnrto.ri/pluis which caused it to 

 be overlooked." While Bruuer's mention of the species is admit- 

 tedly very brief he said: "I have given it the name raricr/ntns on 

 account of its being variegated," and as it was the only variegated 

 form of Ncinobiux at that time known I have restored his name 



