June, '05] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. l8l 



St. Lucia. February, 1902. [No. 384.] One female. 



Montserrat. January, 1904. [H. A. Ballou.) [No. 384.] 

 One female. 



The individual from Montserrat considerably exceeds the 

 others in size, equalling the Venezuela female mentioned by 

 Redtenbacher.* 



They all agree with a series of specimens from Jalapa, Vera 

 Cruz, Mexico, which also exhibits considerable variation in 

 size. This species ranges from Cuba to Buenos Ay res, and has 

 been definitely recorded from Martinique and St. Vincent in the 



Lesser Antilles. 



Family GRYLUD^. 



SCAPTERISCUS Scudder. 

 1868. Scapteriscus Scudder, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xi, p. 385. 



The original description mentioned no included species, 

 and in a later work f he includes eight species oxydactylus, 

 tennis, mcxicanns, didactylus, victims, agassizii, varicgatus and 

 abbreviatus. Of these the one standing first, oxydactylus 

 (Perty), can be considered the type. 



Scapteriscus variegatus (Burmeister). 



1838. Gr\_yllotalpa~\ variegata Burmeister, Handb. der Entom., ii, 

 Abth. ii, i, p. 740. [Colombia.] 



Barbados. July 10, 1903. (H. A. Ballou.) [No. 224.] 

 One male. 



This specimen has the wings shorter than the tegmina, in 

 this resembling S. abbreviatus Scudder, which, however, has 

 the tegmina of a very different shape. The species has been 

 recorded from St. Lucia by Saussure. 



GRYLLOTALPA Latreille. 



1802. Gryllotalpa Latreille, Hist. Nat. Gencr. et Partic. des Crust, 

 et des Ins., iii, p. 275. 



Type : Gryllus gryllotalpa Linnaeus. 



Gryllotalpa hexadactyla Perty. 



1830-34. Gryllotalpa he.vadaclyla Perty, Delect. Anim. Art. Bras., 

 p. 119, tab. xxiii, fig. 9. [In mountains of the Province of 

 Minas Geraes, Brazil.] 



St. Vincent. (H. M. Lefroy.) One specimen. 



*Verh. K. K. /ool.-but. Gesell. \Vien, xli, p. 402. 1891. 

 t Mem. Peabody Acad., i, pp. 7-15, 1869. 



