SUBFAMILY V. GKYLLIX.E. 691 



sides subparallel, female. Tegmina of female covering one-half to two- 

 thirds of abdomen. Wings usually absent, male, often exceeding the ab- 

 domen, female. Ovipositor not visible. Other characters as above given. 

 Length of body, <J , 12 10, 9, 17; of pronotum, <J and 9, 3.5; of tegmina, 

 $, 1217, 9, 11.5; of hind femora, and 9, 10.811.2 mm. 



Tappahannock, Ya., June (Fo.r}. A tropical or subtropical 

 form occurring in the United States mainly along; the Atlantic 

 coast from New Jersey south and southwest to southern Florida, 

 Louisiana and Victoria, Texas, and also in the West Indies, Mex- 

 ico, Columbia and Guiana. In Florida it has been recorded from 

 Jacksonville, Lawtey, Gulf Hammock, DeLand and Miami. At 

 the latter place Hebard trapped a single male in a molasses jar. 



Caudell (1904g) records that as early as 1887 they were re- 

 ported as doing' much damage about Jena, La., to cotton, sweet 

 and Irish potatoes, peas, strawberries and tobacco, his correspond- 

 ent writing that "their holes in the ground are scattered promis- 

 cously from a few inches to several feet apart, the burrows being 

 seldom over a foot deep in the uplands but much deeper in the 

 swamps where the subsoil was softer. The insects are seldom vis- 

 ible in day and do their cutting at night, taking all they want 

 down in the ground, where they eat as they please or feed their 

 young ones. They appear to go in colonies and we find that rapid 

 cultivation, large flocks of poultry and numerous birds are neces- 

 sary to keep them in check.'' In 1903 specimens were sent in to 

 Washington from Beech Island, S. Car. which had been taken in 

 cotton fields where they burrow to a depth of 18 inches, lining the 

 holes with shreds of cotton leaves and in so doing destroying the 

 young cotton for several feet in the row. The young were found 

 in these burrows in June. 



Manee (1908, 461) states that at Southern Pines, N. Car. the 

 "mounds" of this cricket are very common and are "built near 

 some small weed, whose leaves furnish the wide but shallow hori- 

 zontal chamber," the latter connecting with one or more perpen- 

 dicular or oblique tunnels which serve as 'retreat shafts' when 

 the insect is disturbed." This is probably the species mentioned 

 by Scudder (1894c) under the name (h-yUodes sp. as taken by 

 Maynard near Jacksonville, Fla. in similar burrows. 



At Clarendon, A"a. Allard (1916a) found .1. ninth-tin in num- 

 bers in early June in a pine grove where they occurred upon the 

 trunks of the ] tines from one to eight feet above the ground. The 

 males stridulated only on warm evenings, beginning about sun- 

 down and continuing in the early part of the night. "The trill is 

 loud, continuous, high-pitched, much resembling that of an 



