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short and tliick in this species, and the slope on the inner side of 

 the tip of the last joint is more distinct and mor^ deeply excavated. 

 Such are the principal differences which the specimens before me 

 indicate as existing between these species. But as a large portion 

 of the insects of this order are subject to considerable variations 

 in the form and sculj^ture as well as the color of their several 

 parts, it is possible that other specimens may not show all these 

 details to be as I have rcDresented them. 



133. Dotted FLOWER CRICKET, (Ecanthas punctulatas, DegQQi. 



A slender white cricket with the head and thorax dull brown- 

 ish yellow above, the thorax twice as long as wide, and the wing 

 covers transparent with a dusky dot or small oval spot in their 

 centre. 



This probably occurs upon the same shubbery on which the two 

 preceding species dwell. I have never met with it in New- York, 

 though it will very likely be found within our borders, Degeer 

 having described it from specimens taken in Pennsylvania. Tlie 

 male is unknown to me, the female only having been sent me from 

 the Southern States. It is more long and slender than the otlier 

 species, measuring to the end of its body 0.50, wing covers 0.60, 

 ovipositor 0.75, and to the end of its wings 0.90. It differs so far 

 in some important points from each of the other species that some 

 future writer will no doubt make it the type of a distinct genus, a 

 step which would be eminently proper should another species be 

 discovered coinciding with this in those differences. 



The thorax is long and narrow, twice as long as wide, and when viewed from 

 above appears cylindrical with each end a little dilated or curved outwards- 

 The thin foliaceous margin upon each side is turned outward almost horizon- 

 tally, its hind part being widened. Upon the posterior part of tlie upper side 

 is a large round impressed si)ot appearing as though stam[)ed witli u seal, its 

 outer side forming a riglit angle. The unjig covers in the females are but little 

 more than half as long as the wings and arc very thin and transparent, with 

 opake wliite veins, whereof there are two straight longitudinal rib-veins the 

 inner one of v^hioh is double, and the space between these two veins is divided 

 into a number of small square cells by transverse veinlets. The deflected outer 

 area is crossed oblifpiely by parallel veins connected by transverse veinlets 

 dividing the surface into numerous cells whicli are mostly square, those at the 

 base l»oing murh tnore <m.nM and irn"j:ular. The flat upper jmrtion is cut im 

 into numerous irrefriilar cells of various sizes bv a net- work of short vemkts 



