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Tribus Gtryllid^. 

 Genus Anurogryllus, Sauss. 



1. A. MUTicus, de Geer. 



Gryllus muticus, de Geev, 1773, Mem. Ins. iii. p. 520, pi. 43. 

 fig- 2. 



Anurogryllus muticus, Sauss. Melang. Orthopt. v. p. 452. 



Patria: St. Vincent, windward side, leeward side (500'-1000'). 

 — Specimina nonnulla, collecta vespere in silvis mensibus Januario 

 et Augusto. — Occurrit etiam in Haiti, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, 

 Surinam, Brasilia (coll, Brunner, Sauss.). 



Genus Gryllus, Linn. 



1. G. ASsiMiLis, Fabr. (var. cubensis, Sauss.). 



Gryllus assimilis, Fabr. S. E. 280, 3 (1775); E. S. ii. p. 29, 4 ; 

 Saussure, Miss. Scient. au Mexique, p. 396 ; id. Melang. Orth. v. 

 p. 318. 



Patria : St. Vincent. — Specimen unicum. — Occurrit etiam in Cuba, 

 Martinique, Brasilia, Columbia, Mexico, et in provinciis meridio- 

 ualibus Civitatum Unitarum (coll. Brunner, Sauss.). 



Genus Gryllodes, Sauss. 

 1. G. RUFiPES, Redt. (n. sp.). (Plate XVII. fig. 15.) 

 Statura majore. Fusco-niger. Caput nic/ro-nitidum, glabrum, 

 unicolor, exceptis ocellis jlavis (fascia supra-antennali testacea 

 nulla). Pronotum teres, fusco-niyi'um, pilosum ; lohi laterales 

 margine inferiore rotundato, retrorsum nonnihil ascendente ; 

 dorsum pronoti margine aniico et macula discoidali cruciformi 

 obscure rubris. Elytra 5 lobiformia, metanotum parum 

 superantia, dorso distincte (1 mm.) remota, castanea, basi palli- 

 diora, ovata, fere circularia, venis longitudinalibus pa^'dllelis 

 instructa. Abdomen fusco-nigrum, pilosum, subtus pallidius. 

 Femora omnia cum tibiis tarsiscpie rufo-ferruginea. Femora 

 postica extus indistincte et oblique obscure striata. Tibice anticce 

 intus tympano nullo, extus tympano angusto, elliptico. Tibice 

 posticai sttperne utrinque 5-spinosce. Metatarsus posticus 

 articidis duobus sequentibus unitis longior. Ovipositor femoribus 

 posticis submquilongus, apice utrinque bispinosus. 2 • 



Long, corpor 22-5 millim. 



,, pronot 4*5 „ 



„ elytror 4-2 „ 



„ fern, post 13'3 „ 



„ oviposit 14 „ 



Patria: St. Vincent, Richmond valley (1200'). — Specimen unicum, 

 coUectum sub virgultis in silvis humidis mense Januario. — Haec 

 species, valde aflSnis Or. guyannensi et la-platee, Sauss. (Mel. 

 Orthopt. V. pp. 383 et 384), faciliter distinguenda est capite uni- 

 colore, statura majore, pedibus ferrugineis. 



