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McNeill's XipJndium sp. ?, mentioned in Psyche, VI , 24, as being 

 deformed and having the ovipositor two and a-half times as long as the 

 body, may have been this species. 



Gryllidae — Apuhks = (Hapithus), Uhler. 



A pit lies McNeill i, no v. sp. 



Female. — Front margin of pronotum of same width (3.5 mm.) as head, 

 slightly incurved ; posterior margin but little broader, truncate. Tegmina 

 slightly exceeding the abdomen, entire at the tip, the dorsal field the 

 longer. Wings extending 2.5 mm beyond the tip of tegmina. Posterior 

 femora stoutish, exceeding the abdomen. Posterior tibiae of same length 

 as the femora, armed with two slightly divergent rows of spines on lower 

 face — eight on the inner margin and five on the outer, besides the three 

 at the apex on either side, the middle one of which is twice as long as 

 any of the others. Between each two of the larger spines in the outer 

 row are two small ones, about one-fourth the length of the large ones. 

 The basal joint of tarsus has also a row of five spines on either margin of 

 its lower face, the apical pair of which are much the longer. 



The top of head, disk of pronotum, and the tegmina, are covered with 

 a fine soft pubescence, visible only with the hand lens. All the tibiae and 

 upper and lower borders of posterior femora more coarsely pubescent 

 with yellow hairs. 



General colour, after immersion in alcohol, a dull brownish-yellow. A 

 dark brown stripe reaches from eye to posterior border of pronotum. The 

 tegmina with a small brown spot at their base, and the. vein separating 

 the dorsal from the lateral field with a number of oblong dark spots ; the 

 cross-veinlets are also much darker than the ones running lengthwise, 

 giving the dorsal field a checkered appearance. All the femora are rather 

 thickly marked with small dark spots, those on the posterior pair being 

 arranged in regular rows. Extreme tip of ovipositor black. 



Length of body, 16 mm.; of antennae, 42 mm.; of tegmina, 14.5 mm.; 

 of posterior femora, 9 mm.; of ovipositor, 12 mm. 



A single female, the type specimen, was taken October 21st, 1891, 

 from the lower leaves of a golden rod, Solidago lati folia, L., which grew 

 in a thick upland woods in Vigo County, Ind. 



I have named the species in honour of Prof. Jerome McNeill, of 

 Fayetteville, Arkansas, a well-known writer on Orthoptera, and my first 

 instructor in entomology. 



