NO. l6.] ORTHOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT. 147 



C. neglectus Scudder. 



Chestnut brown more or less mixed with smoky; females 

 usually darker. A broad, more or less indistinct and broken 

 yellowish median stripe on pronotum. Sides of pronotum and 

 abdomen more or less spotted with yellowish. Legs usually 

 yellowish to chestnut brown, tips of all femora dark. Hind 

 femora with scalariform fuscous markings. Antennae slender, 

 two to three times as long as the body. Legs rather slender and 

 moderately short. Fore femora very little longer than the pro- 

 notum. Hind femora stout, about as long as the body and about 

 two and one-fourth times as long as the fore femora. Outer 

 carina minutely, closely, and uniformly serrate. Hind tibiae 

 slender, straight in both sexes, about as long as, or no longer 

 than, the hind femora. Cerci moderately stout. Ovipositor half 

 as long as hind tibiae, straight, tapering in the basal half, the 

 tip slightly upcurved and acutely pointed. 



Measurements. 



Body Pronotum Fore femora Hind femora Ovipositor 



Female 12.5 4.6 5 11. 7 6 



Male 12.5 4.4 5 12 



Lyme, i May (A. B. C.) ; Lyme, 21 August (B. H. W.). 



gryllidje. 



This family includes the crickets. The wing covers are flat 

 on the dorsal part of the abdomen and bent abruptly down at the 

 sides. The tarsi are three- jointed, without pads (pulvilli) be- 

 tween the claws; the fore coxae longer than broad. The ocelli 

 are usually present, and the antennae, as in the Locustidce, are 

 long and slender. The hearing organ when present is also 

 situated on the base of the fore tibiae. The calling organ, as in 

 the preceding family, is near the base of the tegmina of the males, 

 but is larger, extending across both the anal and median areas 

 of the tegmina. The chirp of the crickets, with which we are 

 all familiar, is made only by the males, and is produced by rub- 

 bing the veins of the area of one tegmen over those of the other. 

 The hind wings of the crickets are usually short and of but 

 little use as organs of flight, though sometimes they extend 

 nearly twice the length of the tegmina. The hind femora are 



