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Orocharis saltator Uhler. Fort Capron (Viking), V, 4, 1 $ , [U. 

 S. N. M.]. South of Brickell's Hammock, Miami, III, 3, 

 1915, (H.; under bark of live oak in pine woods), 1 9. 

 Brickell's Hammock, Miami, III, 4, 1915, (H.; under bark of 

 tree), 1 juv. 9 . 



The present species was not previously known from south 

 of Thomasville, Georgia, from which locality it was recorded 

 as 0. gryllodes. All previous records of O. gryllodes from 

 the United States apply to this species. 21 



Orocharis gryllodes (Pallas). 



1772. Gryllus gryllodes Pallas, Spicil. Zool., Vol. I, fasc. IX, p. 16, 

 PI. i, fig. 10. [ $ , Jamaica.] 



1844. Platydactyhis saulcyi Guerin, Iconogr. Regne Anim., Ins., p. 

 330. [ 9 , Martinique.] 



Unfortunately this distinctive West Indian species has been 

 generally recognized as O. saulc\i, which name is an absolute 

 synonym of gryllodes of Pallas. Not only does a series of 

 Jamaican material before us bear this out, but the original 

 description and figure show conclusively that Pallas' species 

 was not the insect which Saussure determined as gryllodes. 

 Saussure's material from the United States and subsequent 

 records of gryllodes from this country have all applied to 0. 

 saltator Uhler. 



Fort Capron (Viking), IV, 15, [U. S. N. M.]. Miami, III, 4, 1915, 

 (H. ; small colonies in shrubbery and also in trees about hotels, taken 

 at night), i $, 2 9. Brickell's Hammock, Miami, III, 3, 4 and 15, 

 1915, (H. ; under bark of E.vothea paniculata and Coccolobis laurifolia), 

 3 $ , 5 9,2 juv. $ , 2 juv. 9 ; 3 very small juv. (these latter beaten 

 from low vegetation in openings of jungle). 



The song of this insect was, next to that of Cyrto.vlpha 

 gundlachi, the most frequent sound heard on warm evenings. 

 The note is resonant, baaaaa', repeated incessantly at irreg- 

 ular intervals of a few seconds. When singing, the males were 

 found perched upon the leaves of heavy bushes with tegmina 

 raised high above their backs ; considerable difficulty was ex- 

 perienced in locating individual singers. 



Tafalisca lurida Walker. Brickell's Hammock, Miami, TIT, 3, 1915, 

 (H.; beaten from luxuriant undergrowth), 1 small juv. 



21 This species will be fully discussed in a forthcoming paper by 

 Rehn and Hebard. 



