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PSYCHE. 



I N-jvcmljer, iqot 



r. Somewhat smaller. Tegmina always shorter than the body, without 

 humeral stripe, the apical area beyond the male tambourine much shorter than 

 its basal breadth ; pronotum less villous ; femora not so stout ; generally five 

 spines on inner side of hind tibiae. .... pcniisylvankus. 



a'. General effect of coloring testaceous. Lower margin of lateral lobes of prono- 

 tum straight and distinctly oblique ; branches of mediastinal vein of tegmina at 

 least four in number ; tympanum of outer face of fore tibiae not (or but little) more 

 than twice as long as broad, of inner face subcircular ; upper inner calcar of hind 

 tibiae scarcely shorter than intermediate calcar. .... assimilis. 



Gryllus integer sp. nov. 



Moderatelv slender, not very large, with 

 piceous body. Head rather large and full, 

 but with the vertex not prominent, no broader 

 than the pronotum, wholly black. Pronotum 

 delicately and briefiv \'illous, nearly twice as 

 broad as long, with nearly parallel sides, the 

 front margin truncate or faintly and broadly 

 emarginate, the hind margin faintly and 

 roundly angulate, with a feeble median im- 

 pressed line not reaching the hind margin, 

 the lower margin of the lateral lobes a little 

 oblique and arcuate. Tegmina fully as long 

 as the abdomen in both sexes, nearly uniform 

 dark testaceous, the mediastinal vein with 

 three or four branches; wings, except rarely, 

 caudate. Legs black or blackish fuscous, the 

 hind tibiae more or less tinged with testa- 

 ceous, the hind femora moderately stout only, 

 the hind tibiae rather short, commonly with 

 five spines on the inner margin, the upper 

 inner calcar scarcely more than half as long 

 as the intermediate calcar. Ovipositor con- 

 siderably longer than hind femora. 



Length of body, (J, iS mm., $, 17 mm.; 

 pronotum, $, 3 mm., 9, 3.5 mm.; breadth 

 of same, (J, 5.75 mm., ?, 6 mm.; length of 

 tegmina, $, 12.5 mm., J, 10 mm.; hind fe- 

 mora, (J $, 10 mm.; ovipositor, 13.5 mm. 



II (?, 8 ?. West Berkeley, Cal., 

 Aug. 20 (Morse); San Francisco, Cal., 

 Aug. 19 (Morse); South Santa Monica, 

 Cal., July 30 (Morse) ; Los Angeles, 



Cal., July 29 (Morse); San Diego, Cal. 

 (Crotch); California (Edwards). I 

 have also specimens (not used in de- 

 scribing) from San Francisco (Edwards); 

 Sonoma and Marin Cos. (Osten Sacken) , 

 and Santa Barbara, Cal. (Cooper); as 

 well as from Oregon (Edwards) ; New 

 Mexico: Mesilla (Cockerell, Morse), 

 Las Cruces (Cockerell), Ft. Buchanan 

 (Nevin), and Organ Mts. (Wooton) ; 

 Colorado: southern Colorado (Carpen- 

 ter); and Texas: Pecos River (Pope). 

 Dallas (Boll). San Antonio (Palmer), 

 Gulf Coast (Aaron), and central Texas 

 (Belfrage). I have both macropterous 

 and brachypterous forms from all these 

 states, excepting Colorado, from which 

 I have only brachypterous. 



It differs from the other Pacific coast 

 species in the contrasted color of prono- 

 tum and tegmina, and further from G. 

 pennsylvaiiicHS in the broader pronotum 

 and in that the frontal suture of the 

 head is broadly and uniformly obtusan- 

 gulate and not centrally rectangulate. 



Gryllus vocalis sp. nov. 



Moderatuh stout, moderately large, with 

 piceous body. Head rather large with prom- 

 inent vertex, a little broader than the prono- 



