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with yellow. Femora and tibiae brownish yellow mottled 
with dark brown. Tegmina of female with pale markings on 
cross veins and a pale longitudinal stripe along outer margin of 
dorsal field; of male, usually varied in tint and with a pale line 
along outer margin. 
Measure^nents. 
Body Tegmina Hind femora Ovipositor 
Male 5-6 3.5-4 3.8-4.5 
Female 6-7 2.5-3.5 4.5-5 3-3.5 mm. 
This species is very closely related to N. palustris of Blatchley, 
and it is not impossible that the two should be regarded as forms 
of one species. Both structural and color differences are very 
sHght and the two may intergrade. 
Several New England specimens which I refer to this species 
were captured at South Kent and Canaan, Ct., August 18 and 
19. They were at one time determined by Scudder as N. caro- 
linus and by me as N. palustris, but they seem to belong more 
correctly to A^". cubensis as defined by Hebard in his recent revi- 
sion. I have also seen a female from New Haven, Ct., kindly 
sent me by Walden, which probably belongs to this species. All 
these specimens are regarded by Hebard as variants of N. palus- 
tris. 
Sphagnum Cricket; Marsh Ground-cricket. 
Nemobius palustris Blatchley. 
Plate 16, figs. 11, 12. 
Nemobiiis palustris Blatchley, 27th Ann. Rept. Dept. Geol. Nat. Resources 
Indiana, p. 427 (1903).— Morse, Psyche, vol. 13, p. 158, in part (1906).— 
Walden, Bull. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 152 (1911).— Hebard, 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 468 (1913). 
A very small, dark-colored Cricket found in swamps and bogs, 
closely related to N. cubensis, of which it may possibly prove to 
be a northern race. Tegmina short, of female covering little 
more than half of abdomen, of male about three-quarters. 
Long-winged examples have not yet been taken. Ovipositor 
one-fourth to one-third shorter than hind femora, gently up- 
curved, the apex very finely serrulate and occupying one-fourth 
to one-third of its length. 
