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Family ENEOPTERID^. 



This family is represented in South and Middle America by two, 

 or possibh' three, genera, which may be separated as follows: 



A. Anterior ocellus exserted on the anterior side of the rostrum. Legs elongate. 

 Hind metatarsus very long, biseriately serrate. Tegmina fully developed 



in both sexes. [Tropical America] Eneopterus Burmeister. 



A A. Anterior ocellus exserted on the superior side of the rostrum. Legs shorter, 

 Hind metatarsus shorter, one-spined on one margin, four-spined on the 

 other. Tegmina abbreviated in the female. [Brazil] 



Ligypterus Saussure, or Lebinthiis Stal. 



Genus Eneoptera Burmeister. 



Eneoplera Burmeister, Handb. Ent., II (1838), p. 736; Saussure, Miss. Mex., 

 Orth. (1874), p. 481; Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., II (1906), p. 90. 



Eneopterus Saussure, Mem. Soc. Geneve, XXV (1878), p. 531; Biol. Cent.-Amer., 

 Orth., I (1897), p. 256. 



Plaiydactylus Brulle (non Cuvier), Hist. Nat. Ins., IX (1835), P- 176; Serville, 

 Ins. Orth. (1839), p. 363. 



89. Eneoptera surinamensis DeGeer. 



Gryllus surinamensis DeGeer, Mem. Ins., Ill (1773), p. 519, PI. 43, fig. i. 

 Eneoplera surinamensis Saussure, Miss. Mex., Orth. (1897), p. 483; Kirby, Syn. 

 Cat. Orth. II (1906), p. 90. 

 For extended synonymy see Kirby, /. c. 



Habitat. — There are numerous specimens of this common species in 

 the collections now being reported upon. They come from such 

 widely scattered localities as Sta. Lagoas, Minas Geraes, Brazil; 

 Bogota, Colombia; Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, etc. Other 

 material has been studied from the Island of Trinidad, British and 

 French Guiana, Paraguay, northern Argentina, Pernambuco, Victoria, 

 and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, etc. In fact the species occurs throughout 

 tropical. Central and South America, where it is very abundant in 

 forests among the fallen leaves and other rubbish in which it lives. 

 It is needless to state that its color is such as to protect it quite well 

 from various enemies, which prowl about its haunts. 



Like most insects, which have a very extended distribution, this 

 cricket varies considerably in size and also to some extent in color. 

 In fact, the large synonymy shown in the references given in Kirby's 

 Synonymic Catalogue of the Orthoptera would indicate such variation. 



