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occasionally in other trees and bushes, while on the ground 

 Hapithus agitator quadratus was fovmd and in a wdld grape 

 vine a single specimen of Tafalisca liirida. This locality in the 

 autumn would be far more productive, as indicated by the 

 numerous immature examples of various species of Orthoptera 

 present in May. 



Pine Woods. 

 On Pine Island, a large flat area of pine woods (Piniis cari- 

 baca), with low undergrowth, the dominant plants of which 

 are saw palmetto {Sercnoa scrntlata) and wire grasses (Aris- 

 tida sp-), was twice visited. In this area the Orthoptera were 

 found to be very similar to those found in the pine woods 

 {Piniis carihaca) about Miami, Florida. Of the species found 

 here, however, MacnciUia ohscura was present in greater num- 

 bers, and w^as more general in distribution than at any locality 

 we have previously visited. The presence of Gymnosclrictcs 

 pusillus and Falcicnla hebardi, not known previously from 

 Southern Florida, is of particular interest in shownng the 

 incursion of a more northern influence than is found at Miami; 

 at this locality, situated very near the extreme southern boun- 

 dary of the distribution of the long-leaf pine {Piniis palits- 

 tris). 



Mangrove Swamps. 

 Large areas of black mangrove {Avicennia nitida) were 

 examined without success, both on Useppa and Pine Islands. 

 In brief areas of red mangrove (Rhicophora inangle), border- 

 ing Useppa Island and forming the dense covering of several 

 small adjacent islands, nothing was found, though at the 

 former locality a small colony of Orocharis gryllodes and 

 occasional individuals of Pyrgocorypha imcinafa were to be 

 heard every night. 



Salt Marshes. 

 No salt marshes were to be found on the borders of the 

 islands visited. Such areas have, in the spring, proven almost 

 wholly unproductive of Orthoptera in southern Florida. 



