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Key West, Monroe County, Florida. 



I arrived at Key West on January 18, at 4 P.M., and loft on the 20th, 

 but during this time I collected every spare moment, and although the 

 Key was dry and a high wind kept the white coquina dust flying in 

 clouds, collecting proved quite productive. During the fall months 

 the collecting must be of the best. 



Key West is one of the numerous small islands off the Florida coast, 

 and is situated on the edge of the Gulf Stream, ninety miles northeast 

 of Havana, Cuba. The surface of the Key is composed almost wholly 

 of coquina and is perfectly flat. The greater part is covered with a 

 dense scrub growing to a height of from fifteen to twenty feet, in which 

 very few Orthoptera could be found. The lagoons extending along 

 parts of the shore were also improductive, but there are a few portions 

 of the island near tlie city where the country is more open and the 

 scrub is interspersed with occasional gumbo-limbo trees, and in such 

 location the collecting was excellent. Here not only was Acrididas 

 abundant in the grass, but I also found the Blattidse and Forficulidse 

 abundantly represented under the loose chunks of coquina. 



I noticed many immature Gonatista grisea scurrying about on the 

 gumbo-limbo trees, and at their roots captured several Anisomorpha 

 buprcstoides. Here and there are small shallow ponds, around the 

 edges of which peculiar weeds flourish on the bare coquina. 



Miami, Dade County, Florida. 



I spent several weeks in Miami in the winter of 1903, but did no 

 collecting of any importance in Orthoptera until February, 1904, when 

 I was there from February 5 to February 9, and found Orthoptera 

 plentiful. Near the town there are four different localities in which to 

 collect: the thick jungle or "hammock," the open pine woods, the salt 

 marshes, and the Everglades. In the "hammock" most insects are 

 abundant, but Orthoptera are scarce. I took several species here on 

 the weeds, under the bark of the oaks, and in the small open spaces. 

 The open pine woods are filled with Orthoptera, and many species 

 were to be found among the low vegetation and pine needles. 



The dead pine logs, upon their bark being peeled off, also disclosed 

 several interesting species. These pine woods extend along Biscayne 

 Bay between the Everglades and the "hammocks" along the shore. 

 The salt marshes are to be found here and there along the shore of the 

 bay, but are quite distant from the hotel, and owing to the shortness 

 of my stay I was unable to visit them. The Everglades are so difficult 



