690 FAMILY VIII. GRYLLIMD. THE CRICKETS. 



Imt were difficult to capture owing to the environment, their 

 sombre coloration and their habit of hiding under the drift or 

 the sodden mangrove leaves-" 



Morse's types were taken July 13 at Moraine Cay, Bahama 

 Islands by Dr. G. M. Allen who furnished Morse the following 

 notes regarding its habits : 



"This interesting little cricket was found abundantly along the edge 

 of a mangrove swamp that extended for some distance out from the shore. 

 On approaching this swamp from the landward side my attention was at- 

 tracted by a faint but continuous cricket-like note which seemed to come 

 from all about me. After a careful search among the black roots of the 

 mangroves and the water-soaked leaves at their bases, I found numbers 

 of the little insects. They were extremely quick and agile, and although 

 it was easy enough to see them as they leaped aside at my approach, they 

 immediately became invisible on alighting, so closely did they harmonize 

 in color with the dark sticks and leaves. In this thick undergrowth the 

 use of a net was practically out of the question, even if I could have been 

 quick enough to sweep up the active little creatures. I found, however, 

 that I could easily drive two or three at a time onto a sheet of newspaper 

 that I spread on the sodden surface of the swamp, and with a slow but 

 steady motion a wide-mouthed bottle could be brought above a resting in- 

 sect and clapped over him before he could escape." 



III. ANUROGRYLLUS Saussure, 1877, 283. (Gr., '"without" 4- 



"tail" + "cricket.") 



Robust crickets of medium or large size, in our species having 

 the body sparsely and finely pubescent ; head subglobose, vertical, 

 the occiput very convex; eyes rather small, situated each side of 

 autennal pits; ocelli small, the median one narrowly elliptical; 

 disk of pronotuin slightly narrower than head, subquadrate, 

 rounded into the lateral lobes, the latter with lower margin ob- 

 lique, its front angle obtuse, hind one rounded ; teginina about as 

 long as abdomen and furnished with a tympanum, male; wings 

 variable in length; front tibia? with an oblong-oval tympanum on 

 outer face; hind femora strongly dilated, longer than the com- 

 bined tibia? and tarsi; hind tibia? armed with two rows of stout, 

 immovable spines and three pairs of subapical spurs ; anal cerci 

 long, very slender, feebly tapering. Other characters as given in 

 generic key. One widely distributed tropical species occurs in 

 the southern states. 



330. ANUROGEYLLUS MUTICUS (DeGeer), 1773, 520. Short-tailed Cricket. 

 Size medium, form robust. Nearly uniform pale brownish-yellow; 

 occiput often tinged with fuscous; tegmina in part dusky; lower front an- 

 gle of pronotum often very pale. Disk of pronotum subquadrate, wider 

 than long, with an impressed median line, feebly narrowed in front, male, 



