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being arranged in regular rows. The wings extend 2.5 mm. beyond the 

 tip of wing covers. Measurements: Female, length of body, 16 mm.; of 

 wing covers, 14.5 mm. ; of posterior femora, D mm.; of ovipositor, 12 mm. 

 Male, length of body, 14 mm.; of wing covers, 12.5 mm.; of posterior fe- 

 mora 7.5 mm. 



A single pair have been taken in Vigo county. The female was secured 

 Oct. 21, 1891, from the lower leaves of a golden rod, SoUdago latifolia,'L., 

 which grew in a thick, upland woods. The male was taken just a year 

 later from the under surface of a leaf of prickly ash, Xanthoxylum ameri- 

 canum, Mill, It Jletv. from one leaf to another and, before its capture, was 

 thought to be a species of Blattidx, so flat did its body appear. 



Not having Mr. Uhler's paper when the female was taken it was sent to 

 Mr. S. H. Scudder, of Cambridge, Mass., for identification. He returned it 

 with the statement that it was, in his opinion, " an undescribed species of 

 Apithes, allied to A. azteca, Sauss, and very different from A. quadrata, Scud- 

 der." On the strength of his statement, and prematurely on my part, it 

 was described as new in the Canadian Entomologist, loc. cit. Having since 

 secured Mr. Uhler's paper diagnosing the two genera, Apithes and.Orocharis, 

 a. careful comparison with the descriptions therein proves it to belong to 

 the latter genus ; and, although diflFering somewhat in the details of color 

 and measurement from Uhler's description of saltator, yet the differences 

 are not sufficient, in my opinion, to make of it a distinct species. It has 

 heretofore, been recorded, as far as I can ascertain, only from the south- 

 eastern United States. 



VIII . Ai'iTHES— (Hapithus), Uhler (1804). 



Thick bodied crickets resembling in general form the members of the 

 genus Gryllus but having the head narrower than the posterior margin of 

 the pronotum. The maxillary palpi with the apical segment as long as the 

 2d and 3d together. The wing covers do not reach the base of the abdo- 

 men and the wings are much shorter, 

 i;'.. Apithes agitator, Uhler. 



Hapithus agitator, Uhler, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., II, 1864, 546. 



Riley, Stand. Nat. Hist., II, 1884, 183, fig. 258. 



A short, heavy-bodied cricket ; dull reddish brown in color, with the 

 vein, separating the dorsal field of the wing cover from the lateral, a yel- 

 lowish white. The top of head and pronotum, and the surface of all the 

 femora densely covered with brownish-yellow hairs. Measurements : Fe- 

 male, length of body, 11 mm.; of wing covers, 7.5 mm.; of posterior femo- 



