684 FAMILY VIII. GRYLLIDJE. THE CRICKETS. 



The ^ 7 . volaticus Scudd. (1877, 30) aud the female of N- atcrri- 

 mus Scudd. (189Gb, 432) are synonyms of N. ciibensis. 



325a. NEMOBIUS CUBENSIS MORMONIUS Scudder, 1896a, 106. Mormon 

 Ground Cricket. 



General color as in key but exceedingly variable; pronotum dull yellow 

 usually distinctly blotched with fuscous; tegmina of female with the veins, 

 a humeral stripe and costal margins pale. Last joint of maxillary palpus 

 one-half longer than fourth. Ovipositor longer than head and pronotum 

 together. Length of body, $ and 9, 6.5 8; of tegmina, 3 4; of hind fe- 

 mora. 5 5.8; of ovipositor, 3.5 4 mm. 



This western form is here included on the record given by He- 

 bard of a single female taken by F. M. James at Biloxi, Miss. Its 

 known range extends from that point to the Pacific coast, north 

 to St. George, Utah (type locality) and south to the state of Ta- 

 basco, Mex. A macropterous female at hand from Yuma, Cal., is 

 notably paler than culcnsis but otherwise appears very similar. 

 The great majority of known specimens are brachypterous. 



Hebard (1913, 460) says that "in the desert regions of the 

 southwestern United States this insect is but very occasionally 

 met with in the short grasses growing near streams and other 

 restricted damp areas but in the semi -a rid mesquite region of 

 Texas it is widely distributed in the short grasses. Still farther 

 eastward it is found in the typical undergrowth of the long-leaf 

 pine forests. The macropterous form is scarcely ever encountered 

 except at light." 



326. NEMOBIUS PALTJSTRIS Blatchley, 1900, 53. Marsh Ground Cricket. 



Size very small; the body of male especially short and broad; female 

 more slender. Head, tegmina and body of most specimens a uniform dark 

 piceo'iis; disk of pronotum piceous or fuscous sprinkled with piceous; an- 

 tennae, legs and ovipositor fuscous; maxillary palpi yellowish except the 

 apical joint which is wholly piceous. Disk of pronotum one-third broader 

 than long, the sides subparallel, rather thickly beset with stiff black bris- 

 tles, as are also the occiput and dorsal surface of fore and middle femora. 

 Tegmina of female covering slightly more than half the abdomen, their 

 tips broadly rounded; of male forming an elongate quadrangle with sides 



distinctly but feebly converging 

 from base, the tips more nar- 

 rowly rounded. Ovipositor dis- 



Fig. ,31. Ovipositor of A', falnstns, X '5- tinctly th llgh feebly arcuate - the 



(After Hebard.) apical fifth but little enlarged, 



above very finely and closely serrulate with dull, rasp-like teeth (Fig. 

 231.) Length of body, $, 5.26.2, $, 66.8; of pronotum, $, 11.5, 9, 

 1.31.9; of tegmina, $, 3.7 4, 9, 2.13.2; of hind femora, $, 3.95, $, 

 45.4; of ovipositor, 3.13.8 mm. (Fig. 232.) 



