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vironmental conditions. The mole crickets (Gryllotalpa) 

 dwell in subterranean burrows in wet soils. The numerous 

 species of Nemobiiis and Gryllus are almost strictly terrestrial 

 in their habits, preferring the grass and dry leaves of fields 

 and pastures. In the low herbs and tangles of vines and 

 shrubs dwell species of Anaxipha, Phylloscirtus and Oecan- 

 tJius. In the foliage of the higher shrubs and trees may be 

 found Orocharis, Cyrtoxipha and arboreal species of Oecan- 



tllHS. 



The notes of all crickets may be classed as either intermit- 

 tent or prolonged. The intermittent "singers" include all 

 species which chirp or trill briefly, as Oceanthus nivcus, 0. 

 angustipenjiis, CyrfoxipJia cohimbiana and many others. The 

 prolonged trillers are always recognized by their uninterrupt- 

 ed trillings which may continue indefinitely without pause. 

 Oceanthus latipennis, O. nigricornis, Phylloscirtus pulchellus, 

 Anaxipha exigua and many others have the prolonged trilling 

 habit. 



The habits, range and stridulations of many of our crickets 

 are almost entirely unknown. More careful collecting, es- 

 pecially throughout the South, will probably add a number of 

 new species to our fauna and, at the same time, greatly extend 

 the range of many other little known species. Casual collect- 

 ing in Northern Georgia by the writer has brought to light in 

 this region a number of little known species of locusts and 

 crickets. By his discovery of Cyrtoxipha cohimbiana and 

 Orchelirnum minor in Northern Georgia the known range of 

 these insects has been extended six or seven hundred miles 

 farther southward. Likewise, the writer's records of Nemo- 

 bius ambitiosus in Northern Georgia extend the range of this 

 interesting cricket about 250 miles northward into the upper 

 piedmont belt. 



Miogryhlus saussurii, Scudd. The writer first met this crick- 

 et at Thompson's Mills, Georgia, late in July 1910. It is a 

 ground-dwelling species, and keeps itself well concealed be- 

 neath the matted leaves and grass of gardens and orchards. 

 It is very irregular in its distribution at Thompson's Mills and 



