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individuals in April and May, 1903. Several of the specimens are 

 smaller than the usual type and are referred here with a little uncer- 

 tainty. 



The specimens taken on February 6 were all found under boards and 

 •stones along the main street of Miami. They were captured after 

 dusk while stridulating at a great rate. (H.) 



Gryllodes poeyi (Saussure). 



This Antillean species is represented by m'ne specimens, three adult 

 males, two adult females and four nymphs, from Miami, taken Febru- 

 ary 6, 7, and 9, 1904. They are inseparable from a series of Cuban 

 and Bahaman individuals, and constitute the first record of the species 

 from the United States. 



The first evening in Miami I heard this cricket stridulating in cracks 

 between the bricks of the drive leading to the Hotel Royal Palm. 

 Marking the places, as it was then too dark to investigate, I left them 

 till the next morning. I then was able to raise the bricks and collected 

 several specimens. One specimen was taken stridulating in a crack 

 six feet from the ground between the stones which form the front of 

 the Miami Bank. This insect emits a shrill sound easily distinguished 

 from Gryllus ruhens by its higher pitch and the longer duration of the 

 stridulations. When exposed it waves its long slender antennae about 

 continually. (H.) 



Cyrtoxipha delicatula Scudder. 



A series of eight adult males, seven adult females and a nymph from 

 Key West, taken January 19, 1904, are referred to this species. An 

 adult male and a nymph were also taken at Miami, February 6, 1904. 

 This series does not wholly agree with Scudder's description, taken from 

 two males from Fort Reed and Sand Point, Florida, but as a great 

 amount of variation in the presence of pronotal hairs and considerable 

 in the length of the wings is exhibited by the specimens studied, it is 

 impossible to attempt to separate them. Saussure's C. gundlachi is 

 ■of a quite different appearance. 



Key West. — These specimens I beat from Ilex cassine with little 

 difficulty. I found no others on any other bushes, and would probably 

 have missed the species in this locality had I not happened to beat this 

 bush. I found it to be the same in the case of Plectoptera poeyi and 

 Liphoplus krugii. 



Miami. — The nymph was beaten from a bush in the "hammock," 

 and the mature specimen was taken at night when beating for Micro- 

 centrum. (H.) 



