432 ♦ REPORT OF STATE GEOLOGIST. 



ee. Ovipositor seldom, if ever, more than 14 mm. or 

 less than 13 mm. in length, rarely more than 

 one-fom'th as long again as hind femora; the 

 male more slender, with narrower and less 



swollen head 136 pennsylvmncus, p. 437 



(la. Straw-colored species, with some dnrli In'own or blackish markings 

 on head and thorax; first joint of antenn;ie projecting slightly be- 

 yond front of head. (House crickets) 137 domestictis, p. 4.39 



132. Gryllus firmus Scudder. 



Unillns firmm Scudd. , 194, IX, 1902, 295. 



Large and stout, with piceous body. Head large, tumid, with 

 prominent vertex, scarcely broader than the pronotum, wholly black. 

 Pronotum stout, black, most delicately margined anteriorly with red- 

 dish brown, broadest in advance of the middle, the sides being slight- 

 ly and not quite uniformly convex, half as broad again as long, the 

 front margin with scarcely perceptible concavity, the hind margin 

 slightly but distinctly and broadly convex, with a median impressed 

 line scarcely or not visible on posterior third, the lower margin of 

 the lateral lobes oblique and nearly straight. Tegmina nearly or 

 quite covering the abdomen, testaceous, more or less infuscated, often 

 in the female with a clear testaceous humeral stripe, the mediastinal 

 vein with three or four branches; wings generally no longer than the 

 body, but sometimes caudate in the female. Legs reddish or yel- 

 lowish brown, often more or less infuscated, the hind femora stout, 

 the hind tibia? with generally six or seven rather long spines on the 

 outer side, the upper inner calcar very long and almost as long as 

 the intermediate calcar. Ovipositor fully a third longer than the 

 hind femora. 



Measurements: Length of body, male, 27 mm., female, 26 mm.; of 

 pronotum, male, 5 mm., female, 5.5 mm.; breadth of pronotum, male 

 and female, 7.5 mm.; length of tegmina, male and female, 14.5 mm.; 

 of hind femora, male, 16 mm., female, 16.75 mm.; of ovipositor, 

 23.5 mm. 



This is a species of southern range, specimens in Scudder's col- 

 lection having come from North Carolina, Georgia, Florida and 

 Texas. He also records one specimen from Brookville, Franklin 

 County, Indiana, collected a number of years ago by Dr. Eufus Hay- 

 mond. I have seen no specimens from this State, but have one from 

 Agricultural College, Mississippi, collected in December by Mr. 

 H. E. Weed. Nothing distinctive of its habits has been noted. It 

 should be looked for throughout the southern third of the State. 



