40 IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 
Bahamas, taken at Nassau by Dr. William Mann. At least the 
writer finds no characters at variance with those exhibited by 
material taken in Florida. 
Abbreviatus may have to fall as a synonym of Burmeister’s 
variegatus. That species is described as having wings superceed- 
ing somewhat the tegmina, but a specimen recorded from Bar- 
bados by Rehn as variegatus is noted as having the wings shorter 
than the tegmina. The writer has seen no specimen fitting the 
description given by Burmeister, but the character of the wings 
being longer than the tegmina is given only in a diagnostic key 
and may not apply to this particular species, since some of the 
older writers, and too many of the recent ones, are prone to 
carelessness in placing units in keys. Then Mr. Rehn states 
that the tegmina of the variegatus from Barbados, a male, is 
very different in shape from that of abbreviatus. Thus there 
may indeed be two brachypterous species of this genus in the 
West Indies. 
Genus CycLoptitum Seudder 
Cycloptilum minimum n. sp. 
The very small size and the unusually long wings are diagnos- 
tic of this little cricket, no other known form having the wings 
projecting a distance even one-half as great as the pronotal 
length. The maxillary palpi are also very different from those 
of allied forms. 
Description.—Male. (the female unknown): Size decidedly less than 
any other known species of the genus. Head with the facial protuberance 
about as in squamosum, mesially divided by a vertical impressed line; 
maxillary palpi with the penultimate segment about equal in length to the 
apical one, the latter rapidly expanding to the scarcely obliquely truncate 
tip, this entire apical segment being scarcely, if any, longer than the apical 
width. Eyes about as in squamosum. 
Pronotum very small and short, being no more than twice as long as 
the head; in allied forms it is distinctly more than twice, often three times, 
as long as the head; pronotal disk anteriorly truncate and posteriorly broad- 
ly rounded, the whole tapering somewhat posteriorly, but scarcely so much 
as in squamosum. Tegmina very large, projecting beyond the pronotum 
a distance but little less than the pronotal length, decidedly more than in 
other species of the genus; the tegmina are posteriorly slightly broader 
than the posterior width of the pronotum, not considering the deflexed 
lateral fields of the former; tympanum perfectly developed, occupying the 
