SUBFAMILY V. GRYLLINJE. 699 



rarely in neglect us) separated by a wide V-shaped notch, 

 (Fig. 238.) 



f. Ovipositor scarcely if any longer than hind femoraT teg- 



mina of female strongly reticulate. 333e. VEBNALIS. 



ff. Ovipositor nearly one-third longer than hind femora; teg- 



mina of female less strongly reticulate. 333f. NKOLECTUS. 



aa. Straw-colored species; head with distinct dark brown or blackish 



cross-bars; first joint of antennae projecting slightly beyond front 



of head. 334. DOMESTICUS. 



333a. GRYLLUS ASSIMILIS FIRMUS Scudder, 1902a, 295. 



Size very large for the genus; form robust. Color largely piceous, 

 head and pronotum black or piceous; mouth parts and lower half of lat- 

 eral lobes reddish-brown; tegmina a nearly uniform dull reddish-brown, 

 often with a narrow pale humeral stripe; femora dark reddish-brown, usu- 

 ally more or less tinged with fuscous. Head large, tumid, vertex promi- 

 nent. Disk of pronotum one-half wider than long, hind margin slightly 

 convex, median impressed line faint, lower margin of lateral lobes almost 

 straight, its front angle evident, obtuse. Tegmina covering three-fourths 

 or more of abdomen, female, as long as abdomen, male, their tips nar- 

 rowly rounded. Wings usually shorter than tegmina, sometimes exceed- 

 ing the abdomen. Inner apical spur x>f basal segment of hind tarsi very 

 short, two-thirds as long as last segment. Ovipositor one-third or more 

 longer than hind femora. Length of body, $ and 9, 20 29; of pronotum, 

 $, 45.2, 9, 4.5 5.5; of tegmina, $, 1417, 9, 1213; of hind femora, 

 <J, 1416, 9, 14 17; of ovipositor, 1923 mm. 



Gainesville, Dunedin ami Ft. Myers, Fla. Oct. 11 Feb. 24 

 (IT'. X. .); Agricultural College, Miss., Dec. (UYa/). About 

 Dunedin this large field cricket occurs sparingly throughout the 

 winter beneath cover in old orange groves, gardens and dry sandy 

 fields. Under the names firm us and scuddcriantis it has been re- 

 corded by other collectors from numerous stations throughout 

 the mainland and southern keys of Florida. At Key West "they 

 TV ere found in and near their holes situated in the short heavy- 

 grasses growing on the scant soil near depressions-" R. & H. 

 (l!)14c, 411) speak of the song of (1. firinii* as a "loud, sharp, vig- 

 orous chirping," and of that of (1. Juctnosns (riihcnx) as a "slower 

 stridulation noticeablv different from the heartv chirp of G. 



*. I 



firmus." 



One of Scudder's types of (1. ci firm UN was from Brookville, 

 Ind. and the form ranges from that place and from southwestern 

 Ohio (Kostir) southeastward and south to North Carolina, Key 

 West and Texas. It merges gradually into the smaller xntrttlcr- 

 i<uittK Sauss., from which it is mainly distinguished by the charac- 

 ters given in key. Scudder states that about one-third of his in- 

 dividuals of firm lift were macropterous, but only short-winged 

 specimens have been seen bv me. 



