SUBFAMILY V. GRYLLIX.E. 



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tegmina of males short, lacking a tympanum ; wings usnally ab- 

 sent ; inner or hind face of front tibia? with a very small, scarcely 

 evident tympanum; hind femora greatly dilated; hind tibire with 

 upper margins each armed with three pairs of long, distant, mov- 

 able spines and with five subapical spurs, two on inner and three 

 on outer side, the usual lower inner one absent, the upper one 

 as long as basal joint of tarsus. 



Hebard (1915) recognizes five species of the genus, all tropi- 

 cal or subtropical in distribution. One of these occurs in Florida. 



Fig. 235. Hygroncmobius allcni, \ 4. a, male; b, female; 

 hind tibia; d, of ovipositor. (After Hebard.) 



outline of 



329. HYGROXEMOBIUS ALLEXI (Morse), 1905, 21. Allen's Ground Cricket. 



Body short, stout, somewhat depressed. Beneath brown; above fus- 

 cous finely maculate with brown; maxillary palpi dark; hind femora with 

 three transverse fuscous bars on apical three-fifths, the base brown with 

 numerous narrow oblique fuscous stripes. Antennse about three times as 

 long as body, very slender. Tegmina of male covering two-thirds of abdo- 

 men, their tips subtruncate; of female minute, lateral pads almost con- 

 cealed by pronotum. Wings absent. Ovipositor compressed, feebly curved, 

 the tip slightly lanceolate and very finely crenulate above. Other char- 

 acters as above given. Length of body, $, 5 6, $,6; of hind femora, $, 

 4.5, 9,5; of ovipositor, 4 mm. (Fig. 235.) 



Miami, Fla. (Hebard). This little cricket is a submaritime 

 species known from the United States only from a series taken at 

 Miami, Fla. by Hebard who says (1915, 195) : "They were found 

 March 15 on the black soil and among drift in a mangrove swamp 

 which at high tide was under more than a foot of water. The 

 series was taken when the tide was out. At the time the weather 

 was cool and the individuals were not rapid in their movements 



