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FAMILY VIII. GKYLLIDJK. THE CRICKETS. 



above each eye and two shorter ones on middle of occiput; palpi yellowish, 

 the apical joint dusky; antennae dark brown, paler at base; pronotum 

 blackish, mottled with paler; lateral lobes piceous above, the lower third 

 or more dull yellow; tegmina reddish-brown to fuscous, the lateral field 

 darker; abdomen dark brown, often with a narrow paler median line. 

 Head large, strongly convex, wider than front margin of pronotum. Last 

 joint of maxillary palpi obliquely truncate. Pronotum two-thirds or more 

 wider than long, its sides subparallel, front margin feebly concave, hind one 

 truncate. Tegmina of female usually but little longer than pronotum, 

 scarcely attingent, covering about one-third of abdomen, the inner apical 

 margin of dorsal field obliquely rounded. Tegmina of male covering three- 

 fourths or more of abdomen, broadly overlapping, their tips rounded. 

 Hind femora very stout. Tympanum on outer face of fore tibia? elongate- 

 oval, nearly one-fourth the length of tibia?; in the rare long-winged form 

 present and nearly as large on both faces. Ovipositor straight, as long as 

 hind femora, its tip feebly enlarged. Length of body, $, 10 16, 9, 11 

 17; of pronotum, $ , 1.93.1, 9, 2.13.2; of tegmina, $, 3.67.6, 9, 2.2 

 4; of hind femora, $, 6.810.4, 9, 7.411; of ovipositor, 7.212 mm. 

 (Fig. 23G.) 



Southern third of Indiana, April IS July 

 10; Dunedin and Lake Okeechobee, Fla. Dec. : 

 -Mch. 2 (W. N. #.); Mobile, Ala., Sept. 14 

 (Lading). In southern Indiana this species, re- 

 sembling in general appearance a large AY///o- 

 h'ms, has been taken in Franklin, Clark, Posey, 

 Knox, Gibson and Crawford counties, where it 

 occurs on dry wooded hillsides beneath flat 

 stones and logs. It seems to like best places de- 

 void of grass and other vegetation. In that re- 

 gion it probably reaches maturity about the mid- 

 dle of June, as it seems to be most abundant by 

 the last of that month, when quite a number of 

 specimens were taken in the vicinity of Wyan- 

 dotte Cave. 



The Florida specimens above mentioned were 

 nymphs and were taken beneath boards along 

 the margins of ponds and lakes. Elsewhere in 

 that State it has been recorded from a number of stations between 

 Jacksonville and Homestead and also from Key West- 



This species is the J[ioc/i'i/11iiN MiiiNKiirci Scudd. (1S77, M~>) of 

 most American authors, myself included ( 1!M):>, 442). Hebard 

 (1015c) has placed saiissurci as a synonym of (Jri/llus rrrticulis, 

 which was based on a long-winged female from Cayenne, French 

 Guiana. This was done without seeing Serville's type and the 

 placement is therefore open to question, though, judging from 



Fig. J3 

 male. X i- 

 iginal.) 



