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V. AxAxiPHCs, Sauesure (1874). 



Our native species of this genus are very small crickets resembling those 

 of Nemob'us in form of body, breadth of head, etc. ; but having the ovipos- 

 itor very much compressed and curved strongly upwards as in many of the 

 common species of Locustid:v or katydids. 



10. AxAxii'iii.s PULicAKUs, 8aussure. 



Anaxipha pulicaria, ^McNeill, Psyche VI, 1891, (>. 



Head andpronotum brick red in color, sparsely clothed with long hairs; 

 wing covers and legs very light brown ; abdomen and ovipositor darker. 

 Both sexes are wingless, but the wing covers of the male are well devel- 

 oped, fully covering the abdomen, while those of the female reach but 

 little beyond its middle. The cerci are exgeedingly long, tapering, and 

 covered with fine yellow hairs. The hind femora of the males are propor- 

 tionally much longer than those of the females as will be seen by the fol- 

 lowing measurements: 



Length of body — male, (i. 5 mm., female, 8 mm.; length of posterior fe- 

 mora — male, (5.5 mm., female, 6 mm.; length of ovipositor, 3.5 mm.; of an- 

 tennic of male, 32 mm. 



This handsome little cricket was first taken in the state on Aug. 26, 

 1891, at Kewanna, Fulton county, where it occurred in small numbers 

 among the sphagnum mosses growing in a tamarack swamp. On Sept. ii, 

 it was found in Vigo county, 135 miles farther south, about the borders of 

 a large pond. Here it was abundant in isolated spots on the leaves and 

 stems of the arrow a\nm, Peltandra nndulatu, Eat. It is very active and 

 diflicult to capture, and, on account of its small size, is doubtless over- 

 looked in many localities where it occurs in abundance. It is not described 

 in any of the works to which I had access, and specimens were sent to 

 Prof. Lawrence Bruner, Lincoln, Neb., who kindly identified them for me. 



VI. Phylloscirtus, Guerin. (1846). 



The members of this genus are small crickets which have the head 

 broader than the prothorax. They may be readily known from all other 

 ( Jryllids by having the apical joint of the maxillary palpus flattened, oval, 

 and much longer than the preceding joint which is triangular. The ovi- 

 positor is somewhat compressed and curved upwards. 



11. PiiYLLOsciKTi s piLCHEi.i.us, Uhler. The Handsome Cricket. 



Phyllopalpus pulchellvs, Uhler, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., 11, 1864, 544. 

 Phylloscirtus pukhellus, Riley, Stand. Nat. Hist., II, 1884, 183. 

 McNeill, Psyche, VI, 1891, (i. 



