SUBFA M ILY V. GLJYLLINJE. 



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Fig. 232. Female 

 X 3- (Original.) 



In Indiana this handsome little pitch brown 

 cricket has been found only among the tamarack 

 swamps and cranberry bogs of the northern 

 comities, where it finds a congenial home in 

 the midst of the dense, damp sphagnum mosses- 

 Sometimes they are so plentiful that a half doz- 

 en or more are seen in an area a foot square. 

 Like the other members of the genus they are 

 very active, when disturbed leaping vigorously, 

 a few inches at a time, and finally seeking 

 safety by burrowing in the masses of mosses. 

 It has been taken in Marshall, Fulton and 

 Starke counties and probably occurs wherever 

 peat bogs and sphagnum mosses are present. 



The known range of this little marsh 

 cricket extends from northern New England and Algonquin Park, 

 Ontario, west to northern Indiana and south and southwest to 

 Washington, I). C., Wilmington, N. Car. and Thomasville, Ga. 

 Morse (1019a) says it is "locally common in sphagnum bogs at 

 Orouo, Me., in eastern Massachusetts and Connecticut." Walker 

 (1904, 185) records the finding of a colony in a floating sphag- 

 num bog at Algonquin Park, Ont. "They were present in num- 

 bers but were difficult to capture. By pressing the masses of 

 sphagnum down under water it was often possible to bring the 

 crickets to the surface. My attention was first called to them by 

 the chirp of the male which is a continuous and rather feeble 

 trill." 



R. & H- (1911, 597) have described a form of A T . /mlustris taken 

 in a sphagnum bog at Thomasville, Ga. as a geographic race under 

 the name of N. p. aurantlns. Specimens at hand from the Davis 

 and Hebard collections show it to differ only in having the 

 ground color reddish-brown, the tegmina and upper surface of 

 abdomen alone piceous-brown. In my opinion it is, as doubtfully 

 suggested by Hebard (1913, 472), only a "mere color variety" of 

 palustris. 

 327. NEMOBIUS CAROLIXUS Scudder, 1877, 36. Carolina Ground Cricket. 



Size medium; body slender. Antennae, head, pronotum and femora 

 brownish-yellow; maxillary palpi pale yellow throughout or with apical 

 third of terminal joint fuscous. Tegmina brownish-yellow with a narrow 

 piceous bar on upper third of lateral field and basal third of dorsal field 

 often more or less piceous, male; dorsal field usually heavily shaded with 

 blackish, female; upper surface of abdomen blackish, the exposed portion in 

 female dark brown with four rows of small pale spots; lower surface 

 brownish-yellow. Head prominent, as wide as base of pronotum, eyes 



