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occasionally in other trees and bushes, while on the ground 

 Hapithus agitator quadratns was found and in a wild grape 

 vine a single specimen of Tafalisca hirida. This locality in the 

 autumn would be far more productive, as indicated by the 

 numerous immature examples of various species of Orthoptera 

 present in May. 



PINE WOODS. 



On Pine Island, a large flat area of pine woods (Piiuts cari- 

 baea), with low undergrowth, the dominant plants of which 

 are saw palmetto (Serenoa scrnilata) and wire grasses (Aris- 

 tida sp-), was twice visited. In this area the Orthoptera were 

 found to be very similar to those found in the pine woods 

 (Finns caribaca) about Miami, Florida. Of the species found 

 here, however, Macneillia obscnra was present in greater num- 

 bers, and was more general in distribution than at any locality 

 we have previously visited. The presence of Gymnoscirtetes 

 pusillus and Falcicnla licbardi, not known previously from 

 Southern Florida, is of particular interest in showing the 

 incursion of a more northern influence than is found at Miami, 

 at this locality, situated very near the extreme southern boun- 

 dary of the distribution of the long-leaf pine (Finns pahts- 

 Iris) . 



MANGROVE SWAMPS. 



Large areas of black mangrove (Aiiccnnia nitida} were 

 examined without success, both on Useppa and Pine Islands. 

 In brief areas of red mangrove (Rhisophora manf/lc], border- 

 ing Useppa Island and forming the dense covering of several 

 small adjacent islands, nothing was found, though at the 

 former locality a small colony of Orocharis gryllodes and 

 occasional individuals of Pyrgocorypha nncinata were to be 

 heard every night. 



SALT MARSH KS. 



No salt marshes were to be found on the borders of tlu- 

 islands visited. Such areas have, in the spring, proven almost 

 wholly unproductive of Orthoptera in southern Florida. 



