730 FAMILY VIII. GRYLLIIX-K. THE CRICKETS. 



cc. Sides of body with a wide dark brown stripe, extending from 

 eye back along sides of thorax and including the lateral field 

 of tegmina and exposed portion of wings when at rest; spines 

 of hind tibia? shorter than the spaces between their bases. 



345. IMITATOR. 



342. ANAXIPHA EXIGUA (Say), 1825, 309. Say's Bush Cricket. 



Dull yellowish-brown or clay yellow; head and pronotum iu fresh 

 specimens dark reddish-brown; face usually with three stripes and dots 

 and dashes of reddish-brown; tegmina and legs pale brown; spines of hind 

 tibiae with bases and tips dusky; abdomen of male blackish; of female ; 

 dark brown, paler on sides; ovipositor dark brown, paler at tip. Pronotum 

 about one-fourth wider than long. Tegmina of male but slightly surpass- 

 ing tip of abdomen. Other characters as in key. Length of body, $, 

 56, $, 67; of antennae, $, 32; of tegmina, $, 44.5, 9, 33.5; of hind 

 femora, $ and 9,6; of ovipositor, 3.54 mm. (Fig. 244.) 



This handsome little cricket occurs in numbers in suitable lo- 

 calities throughout Indiana. In the northern counties it is found 

 among the sphagnum mosses growing in dense tamarack swamps, 

 and also on the shrubs about the margins of lakes and marshes. 

 Farther south it is often very abundant on the leaves and stems 

 of the arrow alum, cat-tail flags, button-bush and other semi- 

 aquatic plants. It is very active and difficult to capture, and, on 

 account of its small size, is doubtless overlooked in many locali- 

 ties where it occurs in numbers. In central Indiana it reaches 

 maturity about August 1st, and exists until after heavy frosts. 

 Unlike the Nemobids, which it most closely resembles, it is never 

 found on the ground, but clings to the stems of bushes and grasses, 

 a few feet above the surface. No long-winged individuals have 

 been taken in Indiana but R. & II. (ll)l(i) have recorded several 

 from other states and note that they have open "auditory fora- 

 mina' 7 on both faces of fore tibire, while the brachypterous speci- 

 mens have them only on the outer face of the tibiae 



This is our largest and most widely distributed And.ripJm, its 

 known range extending from southern New England west to Min- 

 nesota and Nebraska and south and southwest to Jacksonville, 

 Fla. and Brownsville, Texas. Say's types were from Missouri 

 and the species has been many times recorded as A. ]iitlir<iri<i 

 Burm. 



In New England cxif/uct is recorded only from Westbrook, 

 Conn., where it occurs in tangled vegetation on or near salt 

 marshes. Davis (1880) says that on Staten Island u it is not un- 

 common along the ditches iu the salt meadows where the high 

 tide bushes, I r frutcscens L., grow. It clings from six inches to 

 a foot up the stems and its song has a particular silvery tone." In 



