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St. Lucia. February, 1902. [No. 384.] One female. 



Montserrat. January, 1904. [H. A. Ballou.) [No. 384.] 

 One female. 



The individual from Montserrat considerably exceeds the 

 others in size, equalling the Venezuela female mentioned by 

 Redtenbacher.* 



They all agree with a series of specimens from Jalapa, Vera 

 Cruz, Mexico, which also exhibits considerable variation in 

 size. This species ranges from Cuba to Buenos Ayres, and has 

 been definitely recorded from Martinique and St. Vincent in the 

 Lesser Antilles. 



Family GRYLLID^. 



SCAPTERISCUS Scudder. 

 1868. Scapteriscus Scudder, Proc. Boston See. Nat. Hist., xi, p. 385. 



The original description mentioned no included species, 

 and in a later work j he includes eight species — oxydadylus, 

 tenuis, tnexica?tus, didactylus, vicinus, agassizii, variegatus and 

 abbreviates. Of these the one standing first, oxydactylus 

 (Perty), can be considered the type. 

 Scapteriscus variegatus (Burmeister). 



1838. Gr^ylloia/pa] variegata Burmeister, Handb. der Entom., ii, 

 Abth. ii, i, p. 740. [Colombia.] 



Barbados. July 10, 1903. (H. A. Ballou.) [No. 224.] 

 One male. 



This specimen has the wings shorter than the tegmina, in 

 this resembling 5". abbreviatiis Scudder, which, however, has 

 the tegmina of a very different shape. The species has been 

 recorded from St. Lucia by Saussure. 



6RTLL0TALPA Latreille. 

 1802. Gryllotalpa Latreille, Hist. Nat. G^n^r. et Partic. des Crust, 

 et des Ins., iii, p. 275. 



Type: Gryllus gryllotalpa JJinns&xxs. 

 Gryllotalpa bezadactyla Perty. 



1830-34. Gryllotalpa hexadaclyla Perty, Delect. Anim. Art. Bras., 

 p. 119, tab. xxiii, fig. 9. [In mountains of the Province of 

 Minas Geraes, Brazil.] 



St. Vincent. (H. M. Lefroy.) One specimen. 



* Verb. K. K. Zool.-bot. Gesell. Wien. xli, p. 402, iSgr. 

 tMem. Peabody Acad., 1, pp. 7-15, 1869. 



