Sept., I9I4-] Davis: Orthoptera from Florida. 197 



TETTIGONIIDiE. 



Scudderia texensis Sauss and Pictet. 



La Grange, Sept. 12, 13, 3 males, i female; Aliami, Sept. 22, I 

 male. 

 Scudderia furcata Brunner. 



La Cirange, Sept. 12, i female. 



Scudderia cuneata ]\Iorse. 



Miami, Sept. 24, 2 males. 



The apical expanded portion of the anal segment shows consider- 

 able variation in specimens from Florida all referred to this species. 



Amblycorypha floridana R. and H. 



La Grange, Sept. 11, i male, i female; Big Pine Key, Sept. 20, 2 

 males, 2 females. 



Microcentrum rostratum R. and H. 



^liami, Sept. 22, i male ; Big Pine Key, Sept. 19, 20, 2 females. 



Microcentrum rhombifolium Sauss. 

 Miami, Sept. 22, i male. 



Stilpnochlora marginalia Serv. 



Miami, Sept. 22, 2^, i male and two nymphs^ all from Brickell's 

 Hammock. We found this insect mature at Ft. Myers on the west 

 coast in ]\Iarch, 1912. 



Phrixa maya Sauss and Pictet. 



Miami, Sept. 22, i male. 



Mr. Sleight and I were " shining the road " that leads through 

 Brickell's Hammock with our lanterns on the evening of Sept. 22, 

 1913, when this peculiar insect was found on the side where my 

 friend was walking. He kindly turned it over to me for study, and its 

 identification was made easy by the excellent cut of a male Phrixa 

 maya on Plate XVL fig. 2, Vol. i of Biologia Centrali-America, 

 Orthoptera, in which volume the insect is also described. The authors 

 have this to say : " A very peculiar genus, the species of which have 

 broad and obliquely truncated elytra. In the males the anal field is 

 very small, coriaceous, densely punctate-reticulate, and the stridulating 

 vein is very obsolete above on the left elytron. This genus is known 

 only from Alexico." The development of the cerci is also remarkable. 

 The type came from "Mexico, Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer)," 

 and the discovery of the insect in Florida is of much interest and adds 

 a species to the known fauna of the United States. 



