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Measurements: Length of body, male, 8.5 mm., female, 12 mm.; 

 of pronotum, male, 2.5 mm., female, 3 mm.; of tcgmina, male, 6.5 

 mm., female, 5 mm.; of hind femora, male, 7.5 mm., female, 8.5 

 mm.; of ovipositor, 9.5 mm. 



This is a southern species heretofore known only from Texas, 

 which occurs sparingly throughout southern Indiana, being most 

 abundant in the counties bordering the Ohio River. Our specimens 

 differ from types from Texas in having smaller eyes, and in being 

 yellowish brown rather than grayish in hue. Specimens were sent 

 to Professor Morse for comparison with Scudder's type, and by him 

 pronounced the same. In Crawford County the species frequents 

 roadsides and high dry open fields and meadows. From the short 

 winged form of fasciatus it may at once be separated by the lighter 

 color, unstriped occiput, smaller, more globose eyes and shorter hind 

 femora. 



12B. Nemobius maculatus Blatcliley. The Spotted Ground Cricket. 

 Nemobius maculutu.'^ BL, 17, IX, 1900, 52. 



Size, medium; head rather prominent, dark reddish brown, more 

 or less dotted with pitch black, especially on forehead and cheeks; 

 eyes rather large, prominent. Antennas dull yellowish brown, the 

 basal third lighter; maxillary palpi of the same color, the apical half 

 of terminal joint darker. Pronotum broader than long, faintly taper- 

 ing anteriorly; the dorsal field chestnut brown with numerous dark 

 points; the front margin and lateral field sparingly beset with stiff 

 Ijlack bristles. A black stripe starts back of the eye and covers the 

 upper two-thirds of lateral field of both pronotum and tegmina. The 

 latter with a yellowish vein separating the dorsal and lateral fields, 

 more prominent in the male. The dorsal field brownish yellow, 

 sometimes with blackish dots; in female covering one-third of ab- 

 domen, in male, two-thirds; wings absent. Legs and dorsal surface of 

 abdomen brownish yellow sprinkled with fuscous, which on dorsal 

 surface of hind femora is sometimes in crossbars. Ovipositor al- 

 most straight, equaling in length or very slightly shorter than hind 

 femora; the apical blades rather long, tapering evenly to a fine 

 point; above, evenly and sharply serrulate. 



Measurements: Length of bod}', male. 7 mm., female, 8 mm.; of 

 pronotum, 2.5 mm.; of tegmina, male, 4 mm., female, 2.8 mm.; of 

 hind femora, male, 5.5 mm., female, G.5 mm.; of ovipositor, 6.5 mm. 

 Width of pronotum, 3 mm. 



N. maculatus is readily distinguished from the short winged form 

 of N. fasciatus by its average smaller size, shorter tegmina of female. 



