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?, 2.6 mm.; of hind femora, 5.5 mm.; of cerci, 4 mm.; of ovipositor 

 4.5 mm. 6 c?, 5 ? , Ft. Reed, April 20-22. 



Cyrtoxipha delicatula nov. sp. A slender species, appearing 

 the more slender from the great length of the wings; it is entirely of 

 an amber color with a slight infuscation on the head, pronotum and 

 hind femora, sfCid with a few brownish dots at the insertion of hairs on 

 the head and pronotum, especially next the hinder margin of the 

 latter ; antennae three times as long as the body, of the same color, 

 delicately pubescent with blackish hairs, and about every sixth joint 

 dusky; penultimate joint of palpi decidedly longer than the preced- 

 ing joint, the last triangular joint dusky at its broad apex. Pro- 

 notum twice as broad as long, rapidly and regularly increasing in 

 size from in front backward, the front and hind borders straight, 

 with a median impressed line and a few long curving dark tawny 

 hairs, mostly arranged in four equidistant transverse rows. Tegniina 

 of d slightly longer than the body, the tympanum and all the open 

 spaces of the dorsal field rugulose with irregular longitudinal lines 

 the accessory vein (" veine adventive " of Saussure) distinct 

 throughout the lateral field with a very few faint, distant, transverse 

 veins ; wings fully twice as long aa the tegmina ; spines of hind tibise 

 dusky or blackish at tip. 



Length of body, 5.5 mm. ; of body and closed wings, 11 mm.; of 

 antennae, 19 mm.; of pronotum, .95 mm.; greatest breadth of pro- 

 notum, 1.9 mm.; length of tegmina, 5 mm. ; of hind femora, 5 nmi. 



1 cf, Ft. Reed, April 23. I have also received a male of the same 

 species from Sand Point, Florida, collected May 1, by Messrs. Hub- 

 bard and Schwarz (No. 409). The excessive length of the wings is 

 a striking feature of this insect, which differs in several respects from 

 C. Gundlachi Sauss., said by him to occur in the southern United 

 States. 



This species, excepting in the length of its wings, bears a close re- 

 semblance to the insect considered by Ortliopterologists in this coun- 

 try as Acheta exiffua of Say. Say's description does not fit the latter 

 well, but^in the absence of any insect yet found which agrees better 

 with the characters he mentions, it has been, and may still be, consid- 

 ered the same. It is an Anaxipha, and occurs throughout the south- 

 ern states from Texas to the Atlantic seaboard, and on the latter as 

 far north as Maryland (Uhler). It was placed by Saussure doubt- 

 fully in Nemobius, but is not the insect refei-red to by me in the Bos- 

 ton Journal of Natural History (vir, 429) under that name. Mr. 

 Comstock did not meet with any species of Anaxipha. 



