Vol. XXviJ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 397 



Dcrmaptera and Orthoptcra Found in the Vicinity 



of Miami, Florida, in March, I9l5— (Part !)• 



By MoKGAN Hebaro, Philadelphia, Pa. 



(Pteic XVIII.) 



From the 3d to the i6th of March, 1915, the author was in 

 .\fianii, Florida, during which time collecting was only under- 

 taken part of each day, but special efforts were made to secure 

 material of the least known forms. In this way, while a mere 

 rt t ion of the well known species was taken, certain 



pu;i.v...„i areas were very thoroughly and repeatedly investi- 

 gated and several most interesting facts were thereby ascer- 

 tained. A series of 654 specimens was taken, which material 

 is now in the Hebard Ccrflection." This series represents 72 

 forms of which 2 are new and 5 previously not known from 

 southern Florida, 2 of these latter constituting first records for 

 til ' 1 Sutes. 



^'ion under consideration is divided into a number of 

 distinctive areas, of which the "hammock" and the red man- 

 grove swamps received the most thorough investigation. The 

 fact^ concerning the various areas may be set forth as follows : 



•^Hammock."* 

 The heavy jungle areas, called in the vernacular "ham- 

 nKxks," and small areas of which, scattered through the pine 

 wocmU of this region, are generally known as "banana-holes."* 

 contain a iiui n b e r of mo«t interesting species of Orthoptera. 

 particularly of the tropical forms. Individuals of these are. 

 h« almost without exception very scarce and certain spe- 



• in ...i.iition, M othrr tpectmcns from this rt^jjion are here record- 

 ed. Mr. Rchn »nd the pretcnt aotiior have already recorded 44S1 

 !it>erimm» of Orthoptcra from central and southern Florida. (1905- 

 IV < .\c»d. Nat. Sci.. Phila. 1005. pp. 29-5$: iQt* Ibid.. 1012. pp. 

 -•,- .-<<: tot J Ibid.. 1014. PP .173-412. and 1914. Joor. N. Y. Eat 

 S 06-117. The preat majority of this material is in the 



\i. ,.n and that of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 



PhiUilrlphiA. 



•One of the most cxtenshre Tiammocks" in soothem Florida wm 

 p.nrtirularly investigated: this is Brkkell's Hammock, which occupies 

 ^rvrrai square miles of territory between Miami and Cocoanut Grove 

 .iikI i« readily accrssiWe from the former place. 



' <- r T \V. Har^hberger. Trans. Wagner Free Inst. Sci.. Phila.. 

 VII. p. 101. (1914.) 



