NICARAGUAN ORTHOPTERA. ^j. 



in the collection. It was taken at the edge of a clearing near 

 Castillo. It is a South American species that seems to reach 

 far into North America — this being the second specimen that 

 has come into my hands from Central American points. 



Fam. ACRIDID^. 



13. COTA SAXOSA /)W. (?) 



I find among the few specimens of small " Grouse locusts," 

 of which there are several species, a single specimen which 

 was collected in the dense forests near Castillo, that is referred 

 with some doubt to Bolivar's Cota saxosa. 



I might add here that the group to which these small, 

 rough-bodied locusts belong has been but poorly studied and 

 little collected. This is especially true with reference to the 

 group as represented in this country, and more particularly in 

 the tropics. Then, too, the habits which these little insects 

 have of hiding away among fallen leaves, grass etc., about 

 the margins of ponds and along the banks of water courses, 

 and even of frequenting swamps where they live among and 

 upon the vegatation growing there, renders them difficult of 

 being seen and captured. 



14. Crimisus sp. (PI. III., Fig I.) 



There is a single specimen of another of these little "Grouse 

 locusts" in the collection which evidently belongs to the genus 

 Crhnisiis. Thus far the species has not been determined. It 

 may be new, but I do not think it best to describe a single 

 individual. It w^as collected in a swampy localit\-. 



15. Amorphopus sp. (PI. III., Fig. 2.) 



Still another genus of the sub-family to which the preceding 

 insect belongs, is represented by two specimens taken in the 

 vicinity of Greytown. It does not appear to agree with any 

 of the described species mentioned in Bolivar's ^' Essai siir les 

 Acridiens de la Tribii des Tcttio-ldce.''^ I hesitate, however, 

 to describe it as new, since Bolivar's monograph does not 

 appear to include all the described forms of the group. 



