PSYCHE. 



[January 1394. 



burrow tVom wliich the specimen was 

 seen to emerge was 1.5 mm. in diam- 

 eter and at first vertical. Early in 

 October more young than mature were 

 found, but the young were mostly 

 pupae though scarcely half the size of 

 the adult ; the two sexes seemed to be 

 equally common. 



The testes of the male are so situated 

 that the upper rounded tips lie at the 

 base of the fore-legs, I. e., they just 

 e.xtend into tiie prothorax ; they are 

 approximated, the smaller front lobe 

 whitish, the posterior brownish and 

 those of opposite sides are separated by 

 about half their transverse diameter. 



Grvllodes sp. 



What appears to be an undescribed 

 species of Gryllodes, allied to G. 

 aboftivHS, was found by Mr. C. J. 

 Mavnard in Florida in an interesting 

 position. As I have only a single spec- 

 imen, a female pupa, it is not jiossible 

 to determine the species more definitely. 

 Mr. Maynard writes me that when at 

 Jacksonville in January, i86g, he 

 observed small heaps of freshly moved 

 sand about an inch and a half high, 

 removing which with care he came to a 

 small hole ; this he followed to an 

 oblong chamber near by, near the sur- 

 face of the ground, about two inches 

 long, one wide and three-quarters of an 

 inch deep, on the floor of which were 

 scattered bits of leaves and grass. At 

 each extremity of this chamber (the first 

 discovered) was found a vertical burrow 

 about three inches in depth, one of them 

 empty and at the bottom of the other 



'•a large blue black beetle with immense 

 jaws." In otiier similar chambers only 

 one vertical burrow \vas found, from 

 three to six inches in depth, and this 

 inhabited at the very bottom by this 

 cricket. The chamber was made in the 

 close vicinit)' of a plant closely resem- 

 bling our common dandelion and the 

 buriows penetrated between the roots of 

 the same; the bits of leaf found in the 

 chambers were also of the same plant. 

 It is to lie hoped that future observers 

 in the south will follow out Hiiis clew 

 and obtain the perfect insect for closer 

 determination. At some future time 

 I hope to publish a sketch of the 

 burrow and surroundings made by Mr. 

 Maynard. 



Oecanthijs niveus. 



In preparing for oviposition, the 

 female, standing head upward, first 

 removes or scrapes the bark of a rasp- 

 bei ly or other shoot with its jaws at the 

 point where she wishes to insert an eg^. 

 Then, bringing both hind tarsi forward 

 to their utmost so as to approach the 

 head, the body, without moving the hind 

 tarsi, is extended forward until hind 

 femora and tibiae are at right angles, the 

 ovipositor is placed at the angle the eggs 

 will subsequently have in the stem and 

 its point is then cxactlv at the centre of 

 the bitten portion. While the legs now 

 clasp the stem tighth , the ovipositor is 

 worked with a sligiit upward and 

 downward movement and the body at 

 the same time swaved gently from side 

 to side. The hole drilled, the egg is 

 laid without previouslv withdrawing the 



