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and inner sides almost always brick-red, more prominently so in male. 

 Pronoturu one-half or more wider than long. Tegmina usually covering 

 three-fourths or more of abdomen, female, all of abdomen, male; sometimes 

 shorter in latter sex. Wings either reduced to mere pads (abbreviatus) 

 or fully developed and reaching middle of ovipositor. Hind femora very 

 stout. Hind tibia? usually armed with six spines on outer margin, their 

 upper and middle inner spurs slender and subequal. Length of body, $ , 

 IS 20, $, 18 22; of pronotum, $ and $, 4.5 5; of tegmina, $, 12 14, 

 $, 1113; of hind femora, $, 1113, $, 10.5 13.5; of ovipositor, 17 

 21 mm. 



In late summer and early autumn this is the most common 

 field cricket in Indiana. Here it is represented during winter 

 by the eggs alone. In southern Indiana these hatch in late May 

 or early June and the mature males appear about July 1st, but in 

 the central and northern parts of the State the first males appear 

 about a month later. This large field cricket is, in habits, noc- 

 turnal, omnivorous, and a cannibal. Avoiding the light of day, 

 it ventures forth, as soon as darkness has fallen, in search of 

 food, and all appears to be fish which comes to its net. Of fruit, 

 vegetables, grass and carrion, it seems equally fond and does not 

 hesitate to prey upon a weaker brother when opportunity offers. 

 1 have often surprised them feasting on the bodies of their com- 

 panions, and of about 40 imprisoned together in a box, at the end 

 of a week but six were living. The heads, wings and legs of their 

 dead companions were all that remained to show that the weaker 

 had succumbed to the stronger that the fittest, and in this case 

 the fattest, had survived in the deadly struggle for existence. 



This is the G. abbrcriatns Serv. of most authors, including 

 myself (1903, 435). Serville described two forms, liH'-tuoxiix on 

 page 335 and abbreviatus on page 336. The latter is now consid- 

 ered only the short-winged form of luctiiosus, though McXeill 

 (1S!)1, 5) says it is his opinion that abbrcr'nilii* is distinct and 

 that Itictuosus is probably the long-winged form of pennsylvanicus 

 Uurm. The short-winged form (of litctiiosus] is by far the more 

 common in Indiana, only a few long-winged individuals having 

 been noted. 



The range of (/. a. liictiHtxus, including the short-winged <ih- 

 li'-crnitns, is a wide one, extending from New England and On- 

 tario west to Manitoba and Colorado, and south to southern 

 Florida, Louisiana and Texas- In Florida it has been taken by 

 me at Stanford, Key West, LaBelle, Ft. Myers and Dunedin, and 

 recorded by others, mostly under the name (f. nthntN Scudd., from 

 numerous other points, both on the mainland and keys. About 



