SUBFAMILY VII. TK KiOXIDI I X.F.. 729 



e. Front tibise with an auditory opening on one or both faces; 



males with a large stridulating area; larger, length of body, 



male, 4.5 or more mm. I. AXAXIPHA. 



cc. Front tibiae without an auditory opening; males with a minute 



stridulating area; smaller, length of body, male, 4 mm. 



1 1 . FALCICULA. 



bb. Interocular area strongly flattened, vertex but little cleclivent; 

 eyes compressed, longer than deep; color in life pale greenish- 

 yellow. III. CYRTOXIPHA. 

 a. Last joint of maxillary palpi lobate, deeply concave; basal joint of an- 

 tennae longer than wide; pronotum subcylindrical, longer than wide; 

 head and thorax red, tegmina dark brown. IV. PIIYLLOSCYRTUS. 



I. ANAXIPHA Saussure, 1874, 370. (Gr., "upraised'' -|- '"sword.") 

 Very small brown or dusky crickets having the head vertical; 

 front oblique, deelivent and forming a protuberance between the 

 antenme; ocelli very small, arranged in a triangle; antenna* ex- 

 cessively long, setaceous; last joint of maxillary palpi longer than 

 the one preceding, its apex dilated and truncate; pronotum short, 

 broad, bearing numerous erect stiff hairs; tegmina of male with 

 dorsal field very wide, their tips rounded ; the speculum on apical 

 half prominent, undivided by a cross nerve; tegmina of female 

 more narrow' and closely embracing the sides of abdomen ; wings 

 either absent or present and nearly twice as long as tegmina ; legs 

 long, pubescent; front tibise with hearing organ present on both 

 faces in winged forms, on outer face only in wingless forms; 

 spines of hind tibiae usually much longer than the spaces between 

 their bases. Other characters those of the subfamily. The semis 



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is mostly tropical in distribution, five nominal species being re- 

 corded from the eastern and southern states. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF AXAXIPHA. 



a. Ovipositor one-half as long as hind femora; hind femora of male 

 longer than tegmina, in fresh specimens with a dark stripe along the 

 lower half of outer face in both sexes. 342. EXIGUA. 



aa. Ovipositor distinctly less than one-half the length of femora; hind fe- 

 mora of male shorter than tegmina, without a dark stripe. 

 6. Color a uniform pale brown, usually without distinct dark mark- 

 ings on head or tegmina; form compact. 343. PULICARIA 

 l)l>. Color blackish or dusky brown or head with dark stripes; form 



more elongate, less compact. 



c. Sides of body without a prominent dark brown stripe; spurs of 

 hind tibia? longer than the spaces between their bases; form 

 very slender. 



d. General color pale brownish-yellow; occiput usually with two 

 dark stripes which extend downward onto face. 



343a. VITTATA. 

 dd. General color dusky or smoky brown. 344. SCIA. 



