AUTUMN NUMBER 41 
DISTRIBUTIONAL NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN 
ORTHOPTERA—I. 
By Turoporm H. HUBBELL, 
(Gainesville, Florida’) 
The following records are of interest because they present addi- 
tional data concering some rare or local species which have been 
seldom recorded, or because they mark extensions of the known 
ranges of better-known forms. Unless otherwise indicated, the 
material is in the collection of the Museum of Zoology of the 
University of Michigan. 
Mantoida maya (Saussure & Zehntner). 
FLORIDA: Manatee, Manatee Co., viii.22.1925 (T.H.H.) 1 °; 
Orlando, Orange Co.,; ix.20.1924 (T.H.H.) 1°? Archer, 
muachoa Co. vill.11,1925 (T. H.H:) 1 ¢, I ?; Columbia Coz, 
approx. 314 miles north of the Santa Fe River, on the High 
Springs-Lake City road, vii.22.1925 (T.H.H.) 4 4, 2 °. 
This little Mantid has been thought to be characteristic of 
the tropical element in the Floridian fauna, having hitherto been 
taken in the United States only in south Florida. Its discovery 
in some numbers as far north as Columbia County indicates 
that it probably occurs throughout peninsular Florida, and per- 
haps even in southeastern Georgia. 
All of the specimens taken by the writer were found at night, 
while collecting with the aid of an electric headlight. A number 
of other supposedly rare species have been taken commonly in 
this way, and it seems probable that Mantoida maya, as well as 
many other interesting Orthoptera, has escaped attention chief- 
ly on account of its nocturnal habits. No specimens were taken 
on lighted sheets set up near its habitat. 
At Manatee a single female was swept from palmetto and 
dwarf oak scrub on cut-over sandy pine land. The Orlando 
specimen was taken on a bush of Ceratiola ericoides (“‘rose- 
mary’’)—one of a patch growing beside the margins of a small 
pond in the “sand scrub” area 5 miles west of the town. This lo- 
cality, now rapidly being subdivided, was also the habitat of a 
number of other interesting forms, including four new species 
of Cyrtacanthacrinae. 
In Alachua and Columbia Counties M. maya was found in open 
groves of Quercus catesbaei on sandy soil—“high oak” as the 
habitat is locally known. At Archer this oak growth is more 
open, with tall grasses, dog fennel, and occasional Ceratiola 
