ORTHOPTERA 505 



pagos have proved to be new, the following description is given with- 

 out much fear of its specific distinctness. 



Albemarle, Tagus Cove, 2 males, 20 nymphs. 



Subfamily MYRMECOPHILIN^. 

 CYCLOPTILUM ERRATICUM Scudd. 



This species has been known heretofore by a single specimen, a 

 male from Charles Island. The present collection contains five adults 

 and several nymphs. The female is so unlike the male in appear- 

 ance as to make it difficult to recognize it as belonging to the same 

 species. The best preserved specimens are dull cinnamon brown, 

 especially anteriorly, becoming chestnut posteriorly, with the legs 

 sometimes lighter. The surface of the body and legs is smooth or 

 very sparsely pilose. The female is wingless with the pronotum sub- 

 quadrate, very moderately widening postei'iorly, and not covering the 

 mesothorax. The ovipositor is as long as the hind femora. A few 

 scales are found on the under side of the body and sometimes a single 

 row bordering some of the abdominal segments. The antennae are 

 about twice as long as the whole body. 



It occurs in mangrove swamps on the under side of leaves and 

 under the bai"k of dead trees, and is reported to be numerous, but shy 

 and difficult to catch. Mr. Snodgrass says: " Their singing can be 

 heard the whole day in the swamp. It consists of an intermittent 

 chirping sound, the intervals between the series of chirps being short, 

 however, so that the whole has a continuous sound, but it is readily 

 distinguished from the louder and continuous chirping of the large 

 cricket living everywhere beneath the rocks." Two of the specimens 

 from Albemarle, apparently young males, though the pronotum is 

 very small, have large tegmina and wing pods. 



Albemarle, 3 males, i female, 5 nymphs; Hood, i male. 



CYCLOPTILUM LEPISMOIDE sp. nov. 



This species is remarkable among Orthoptera for the possession of 

 scales. Though this character is shared by other species of the genus 

 Cycloptllum^ it is much less evident. C. lepismoide differs from C. 

 erraticum in its color, which is very dull brown, becoming blackish 

 posteriorly. The legs are quite thickly pilose, and these, together 

 with the under surfaces, are luteous or white varied with black. The 



