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longer than the pronotum, somewhat compressed, anterior infeiior 

 margin with two distal spines, one large and one small, no genicular 

 spine present; tibiae about equal to the femora, unarmed above. 

 Median coxse unarmed ; femora about equal to the anterior femora in 

 length, slenderer, anterior inferior margin armed distally with three 

 or four spines, increasing in size toward the apex, posterior inferior 

 margin with ^several very small spines on the distal half, genicular 

 spine distinct; tibiae slightly longer than the femora, armed on the 

 anterior superior margin with two large and two small spines, posterior 

 margin armed with two or three spines. Posterior femora almost equal 

 to the body in length, moderately inflated, the length about three and 

 a half times the breadth, external inferior margin unarmed, internal 

 inferior margin supplied with a series of small depressed spines, no 

 genicular spine present; tibise straight, exceeding the femora by about 

 one-eighth the length of the latter, armed on the upper surface with 

 four pair of spurs, the smaller spines very uniform and rather stout, 

 median apical spurs equal to the metatarsus in length; second joint of 

 the tarsi about half the length of the metatarsus, third joint of the 

 tarsi slightly more than half the length of the second. 



General color cinnamon, suffused on the upper surface of the abdo- 

 men, thorax' and head and the entire anterior limbs except the tarsi 

 with liver brown; antennee cinnamon; posterior femora with the 

 inferior margins and two longitudinal bars on the external face 

 blackish-brown. 



Measurements. 



Length of body, 13.S mm. 



Length of pronotum, 5.2 " 



Greatest width of pronotum, 4 



Length of posterior femora, 14.2 



Length of ovipositor, 6 



The type is the only specimen examined. 



Family GRYLLID^. 

 Genus GRYLLUS Linnaeus. 

 1758. Gryllus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Xth edit., p. 425. 

 Type. — Gryllus domesticus Linnaeus.^® 



Gryllus assimilis Fabricius. 



1775. [Gryllus] assimilis Fabricius, Sj-st. Ent., p. 2S0, [Jamaica.] 

 Guadalajara, Jalisco. August 21, September 14 and 18, 1903. 

 (McClendon.) Eleven males, six females. 



i« Vide Rehn, Canad. Entom., XXXIII, pp. 118-121. 



