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short and thick in this species, and the slope on the inner side of 
the tip of the last joint is more distinct and more deeply excavated. 
Such are the principal differences which the specimens before me 
indicate as existing between these species. Hut as a large portion 
of the insects of this order are subject to considerable variations 
in the form and sculpture as well as the color of their several 
parts, it is possible that other specimens may not show all these 
details to be as I have reuresented them. 
133. Dotted flower cricket, GEcanthus punctulatus, Degeer. 
A slender white cricket with the head and thorax dull brown¬ 
ish yellow above, the thorax twice as long as wide, and thp wing 
covers transparent with a dusky dot or small oval spot in their 
centre. 
This probably occurs upon the same shubbery on which the two 
preceding species dwell. I have never met with it in New-York, 
though it will very likely be found within our borders, Degeer 
having described it from specimens taken in Pennsylvania. The 
male is unknown to me, the female only having been sent me from 
the Southern States. It is more long and slender than the other 
species, measuring to the end of its body 0.50, wing covers 0.60, 
ovipositor 0.75, and to the end of its wings 0.90. It differs so far 
in some important points from each of the other species that some 
future writer will no doubt make it the type of a distinct genus, a 
step which would be eminently proper should another species be 
discovered coinciding with this in those differences. 
The thorax is long and narrow, twice as long as wide, and when viewed from 
above appears cylindrical with each end a little dilated or curved outwards. 
The thin foliaceous margin upon each side is turned outward almost horizon¬ 
tally, its hind part being widened. Upon the posterior part of the upper side 
is a large round impressed spot appearing as though stamped with a seal, its 
outer side forming a right angle. The wing covers in the females are but little 
more than half as long as the wings and are very thin and transparent, with 
opake white veins, whereof there are two straight longitudinal rib-veins the 
inner one of >. hich is double, and the space between these two veins is divided 
into a number of small square cells by transverse vcinlets. The deflected outer 
area is crossed obliquely by parallel veins connected by transverse vcinlets 
dividing the surface into numerous cells which are mostly square, those at the 
base being much more -mall and irregular. Tho flat upper portion is cut im 
into numerous irregular cells of various sizes by a net-work of short vcinlets 
