736 FAMILY VIII. GRYLLID.E. THE CRICKETS. 



from the ground. I found it abundant on the foliage of peach 

 trees and the tallest oaks, also in the low trees and grape vines 

 and very active so that it is not easily taken. Its notes are very 

 brief, exceedingly high pitched trills which are uttered rapidly 

 and persistently by day and by night. It is, however, more strict- 

 ly a night singer and its great chorus begins late in the after- 

 noon and continues far into the night. Once begun it is impos- 

 sible to single out a note ; the evening atmosphere everywhere be- 

 ing seemingly filled with an indistinguishable silvery trilling." 



IV. PHYLLOSCYRTUS Guerin, 1844, 333. (Gr., "leaf" + "curved.") 



Head wider than pronotum, strongly flattened and declivent 

 between the eyes ; vertex broad, rounded into the face ; eyes prom- 

 inent, wider than deep; ocelli wanting; maxillary palpi stout, 

 terminal joint very large, spoon-shaped, deeply and widely con- 

 cave above, fourth joint small, triangular; pronotum as in key, 

 its lateral lobes longer than deep, their lower margin nearly 

 straight, recurved; tegmina leathery in texture, slightly exceed- 

 ing the abdomen in both sexes ; stridulating organ of male much 

 as in Ana.ripha; alternate longitudinal veins of female tegmina 

 more prominent, cross veiulets absent ; wings slightly shorter 

 than tegmina ; fore tibiae with a tympanum on both faces ; hind 

 tibia? shorter than the femora, their spines shorter than the inter- 

 spaces; subgenital plate of male short, conical; ovipositor as in 

 Ana.riplut. An American genus, 14 species being listed by Kirby, 

 only one of which occurs with us, the others inhabiting Mexico 

 and South America. 



348. PHYLLOSCYRTUS PULCHELLTJS Uhler, 1864, 544. Handsome Bush 



Cricket. 



Head and pronotum bright crimson red; recurved lower margin of 

 lateral lobes yellow; antenna? twice the length of body, blackish at base 

 and tip, the middle portion yellowish; palpi bluish-black; dorsal field of 

 tegmina reddish- or chocolate-brown, the sides black with paler nervules; 

 cerci and legs pale yellow; abdomen shining black. Ovipositor brown, 

 paler at base. Head and pronotum finely and closely punctate. Structural 

 characters under the genus heading. Length of body, $ and 9, G 7; of 

 tegmina, 5.5; of hind femora, 5.2 6; of ovipositor, 3.2 3.5 mm. 



This handsome vari-colored little cricket occurs in small num- 

 bers in the southern half of Indiana, but has not been taken north 

 of Marion County. It reaches maturity about mid-August and 

 occurs on low shrubs and vines about the margins of ponds and 

 marshes, being especially partial to the foliage of the button- 

 bush, Ceplialantlius occidentolis L. When approached cautiously 



