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to Professor Forel, but Emery's recent description of a variety of 

 huberi as foreli has compelled me to change the name. It is an 

 interesting fact that nearly every form of 5". huberi has been recorded 

 from a different locality. This seems to indicate that the species 

 is extremely sensitive to differences in external conditions. 



A CRICKET NEW TO NEW JERSEY. 



By Wm. T. Davis, 



New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. 



While sitting on the ground in the pine woods at Lakehurst. N. J., 

 on the third of October, I noticed a small female cricket, which was 

 promptly captured. Shortly after Mr. Chas. E. Sleight called my 

 attention to another on my shoe. This last was a male. I had been 

 hearing an unfamiliar low sounding chink, chink, chink, which I pre- 

 sume was made by the species of cricket under consideration. Upon 

 further search we each captured two more specimens, making in all 

 three males and three females. After this we were unable to find 



any others. 



In the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History for 

 October, 1868, Dr. Scudder describes as new the genus Cycloptilum 

 founded on a single male cricket from Texas, which he called 

 squamosum. The description of the genus Cycloptilum and the 

 species squamosum as there given answers very well for the Lake- 

 hurst specimens, but later Dr. Scudder in his " Guide to the Genera 

 and Classification of the North American Orthoptera Found North 

 of Mexico," 1897, following the tables given by Saussure in 1877, 

 gives an additional character to the genus which would not readily 

 permit of the placing therein of the Lakehurst specimens. 



Dr. Scudder says of Cycloptilum in 1897, "First joint of hind 

 tarsi neither sulcate nor serrate ; pronotum produced posteriorly, con- 

 cealing the metanotum." The males of the species from Lakehurst 

 have the pronotum as here described, but the first joints of the hind 

 tarsi in both sexes have each two rows of serrations on their upper 



sides. 



Saussure in 1874 in his figure of the posterior leg of Cycloptilum 

 americanum {=C. poeyi of the plates), shows that there are no 



