280 PROCEEDINGS OP THE ACADEMY OF [June, 



marsh with some of the accompanying vegetation. About these 

 marshy spots are frequently bushes ten or fifteen feet in height, which 

 are the only vegetation of any height in the extensive "palmetto 

 scrub," as this region is called in the following pages. 



Farther north along the beach, and in a few localities about Pablo 

 Beach, the ground immediately west of the shore dunes is covered with 

 a dense tangle of numerous varieties of bushes, the majority of which 

 are about ten feet high. It was in these bushes that Cyrtophyllus was 

 abundant. 



Inland the broad tract of open country is bordered by another area, 

 bearing a scattering growth of pine and an occasional cabbage palmetto 

 {Sabal palmetto) growing on marshy soil, this zone being distinctly 

 narrower than the preceding one. 



West of the scattered pine belt is a strongly marked zone of "ham- 

 mock" land, the arborescent species of which are varied but in a large 

 part cabbage palmetto, all very closely placed and woven together with 

 numerous lianas. This zone is almost impenetrable, is about a mile 

 in width and extends for miles up and down the coast, in most places 

 being on higher ground than the immediately surrounding country. 



Pablo Creek flows north on the west side of the hammock, emptying 

 into the St. John's near Mayport, and extensive dependent marshes 

 are present on the east side of the stream, between it and the "ham- 

 mock" land. In little scattered areas here are marshy pine woods, 

 but in no place in this creek marsh was the collecting found to be good. 



Still farther inland, west of the stream and beginning at the w^estern 

 edge of the creek marsh, is the extensive long-leaf pine {Pinus palnstris) 

 forest which stretches westward to the St. John's. 



Access to these various zones was gained chiefly by means of a rail- 

 road embankment, along the sides of wdiich, in wet drains overgrown 

 with grass and in cleared grass and weed covered right-of-way, much 

 good collecting was done. 



San Pablo, Duval Counttj. This locality is situated in the long-leaf 

 pine forest three miles west of Pablo Beach. The undergrowth in the 

 woods here was dry and chiefly wire-grass. This situation was the 

 nearest to Pablo Beach at which typical pine woods collecting could be 

 secured. The Orthoptera taken at this locality showed a considerable 

 affinity to that taken in the open saw palmetto at Pablo Beach. 



Gainesville, Alachua County, is situated in northern Florida, sixty- 

 two miles in an air-line southwest of Jacksonville. The region is that 

 of the long-leaf pine {Pinus palustris) and forests of this noble tree 

 surround the town, although large areas have been cleared and are 



