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short, with straight dorsal margin, armed with sliarp. rather 
widely placed teeth. 
In general effect the color is mottled reddish brown, due to 
dark brown spotting on a buffy ground. The spotted effect is 
especially noticeable on the tegmina of the female and the hind 
thighs, less so on top of head and pronotum. The eyes .seem 
especially conspicuous owing to their being nearly surrounded by 
the yellowish ground color. A broad dark-brown lateral stripe 
covers most of the sides of the pronotum, deflected area of the 
tegmina, and base of abdomen. 
Measurements. 
Body Tegmina Hind femora Ovipositor 
Male 8 3.5-4 5 
Female 8.5-9 2.3-2.5 6 5.5-5.7 mm. 
The Little Spotted Cricket or Spotted Ground-cricket is .said 
by Blatchley, its discoverer, to Hve in low, open woods in damp 
situations beneath logs and in their vicinity. Sometimes col- 
onies of considerable size are found, but otherwise it is likely to 
escape the notice of the collector, who passes it by for its more 
abundant relative, N. fasciatus. The only New England local- 
it\' thus far known is New Canaan, Ct., where AValden found it 
on September 11. Beyond our limits it is known to extend as 
far as Indiana, Arkansas, and North Carolina. 
Cuban Grouxd-cricket, 
Nemobius cubensis Saussure. 
Nemobius cubensis Saussure, ]SIiss. Sci. Me.x., Rech. Zool., vol. 6, p. 384 
(1874).— Hebard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 455 (1913). 
Size small. Tegmina of male covering body except subgenital 
plate; of female about two-thirds of abdomen, rather squarely 
truncate. Ovipositor two-thirds to four-fifths as long as hind 
femora, gently upcurved, the apex very finely and evenly serrate. 
Long-wdnged specimens are not uncommon in the South; in 
these the tegmina are a little prolonged and the wings are twice 
as long as the tegmina. 
Dark brown above; paler beneath, the base of abdomen yel- 
lowish. Face and legs medium brown. Top of head (some- 
times), top of pronotum (often), and abdomen of female spotted 
