1905.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 29 



A CONTKIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE ORTHOPTERA OF SOUTH 

 AND CENTRAL FLORIDA. 



BY JA^IES A. G. REHX AND MORGAN HEBARD. 



The material on which the following study is based is almost entirely 

 the property of the junior author, the greater portion having been 

 collected by him on trips taken in the months of January and February, 

 1903 and 1904. The localities represented are Tampa, Hillsboro 

 county; Chokoloskee and Key West, Mom-oe county; and Miami, Dade 

 county. 



The specimens examined number 783, the species seventy-eight, of 

 which seven are new, and several Cuban types are here recorded from 

 the United States for the first time. A A^ery representative series of 

 the material has been presented to the Acadenw. 



The field notes given after the species are entirely the work of the 

 junior author, and are followed by the initial of his name. The brief 

 descriptions of the localities visited, with other facts of interest from 

 the standpoint of this paper, are also by him. 



Tampa, Hillsboro County, Florida. 



During my brief stay in Tampa (January 16 and 17, 1904) I had 

 time for only a few expeditions, and found that from the Tampa Bay 

 Hotel good collecting grounds were not easy to reach. Chilly weather 

 also hampered me decidedly, as in South Florida the weather had been 

 so cool that Orthoptcra was scarce, except in the most sheltered places. 

 There are many marshy spots along the shore of Tampa Bay, and in 

 these few specimens of Orthoptera were to be found. In the driftwood 

 along the shore I also captured a few Forficulids and Blattids, and 

 noticed a small cricket of a pale straw color which I was unable to 

 capture. Back from the bay the country is flat, and for the greater 

 part open with frec^uent shallow ponds, around the edges of which the 

 grasses grow rank, and in these I took numerous specimens. The 

 occasional woods of scattering pines proved unproductive at this time 

 of year, but along their borders the dead pine stumps yielded a number 

 of Eurycotis floridana. A vacant lot near the hotel yielded in addition 

 a few specimens of Ncmohius. 



