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Body: ^ , 5 to 6; 9 , 6; hind fern.: J , 4.5; 9 , 5; ovipositor: 4; antenna: 
$, 9, (estimated) 15 mm. 
Two c? , 2 9 , Moraine Cay, July 13, C. M. Allen. 4 $ and 3 9 nymphs 
in the fourth and fifth stages were also secured. 
This interesting little cricket, which was collected by Dr. Allen, for 
whom I take pleasure in 'naming it, was “found abundantly along the 
edge of a mangrove swamp that extended for some distance out from the 
shore. (Dn approaching this swamp from the landward side my attention 
was attracted by a faint but continuous cricket-like note which seemed to 
come from all about me. After a careful search among the black roots 
of the mangroves and the water-soaked leaves at their bases, I found 
numbers of the little insects. They were extremely quick and agile, and 
although it was easy enough to see them as they leaped aside at my 
approach, they immediately became invisible on alighting, so closely did 
they harmonize in color with the dark sticks and leaves. In this thick 
undergrowth the use of a net was practically out of the question, even if I 
could have been quick enough to sweep up the active little creatures. I 
found, however, that I could easily drive two or three at a time on to a 
sheet of newspaper that I spread on the sodden surface of the swamp, 
and with a slow but steady motion a wide-mouthed bottle could be brought 
above a resting insect and clapped over him before he could escape.” 
Gryllus bryanti sp. nov. With the general facies of G.finnus. • 
Head black with faint brownish markings. Pronotum one and a half 
times as wide as long, black, with narrow, irregular, poorly defined, 
yellowish-brown markings along the posterior half of the lateral carinte, 
anterior half of median line, and anterior and posterior margins. Teg- 
mina black, the veins and venules of the lateral field luteous, entirely 
covering body, reaching hind knees. Wings fully developed, extending 
nearly to the end of the hind tibire. Begs brownish fuscous, the hind 
tibias with 6 or 7 spines on each side, not widely divaricated ; the upper 
and middle calcaria of equal length, less than one-half the metatarsus (in 
finnus one-half to three-fifths), the longest metatarsal spur reaching less 
than half way down the last tarsal joint (in finnus extending one-half or 
two-thirds its length. ) Ovipositor slender, shorter than body, about one 
and one cjuarter times as long as the hind femora. 
Body: 22; pronotum: length, 4, width, 6; tegmina: 16; wings: 26; 
hind fern.: 14; ovipositor: 18 mm. 
One 9 , Mangrove Cay, .Andros, ,\ug. 4, O. Bryant. 
