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A new genus and species of cricket, Anomaloterga mantiqueirae, here described, is the first representative of Strogulomorphini to be reported from Brazil. The specimens were collected at night from the lower portions of live tree trunks in a summit forest located on the Mantiqueira Fault Escarpment, State of Sao Paulo.

Ottedana cercalis, a new genus and species of luzarine phalangopsid cricket, is described from the Araucaria forest on the Serra da Mantiqueira range of southeastern Brazil.

We studied the occurrence of glands in preserved specimens of Vanzoliniella spp., using a new comparative scanning electron microscopy technique. The method proposed here is an alternative to histological studies that cannot proceed due to the unavailability of well-preserved or recently collected specimens. It can also be used to study other subsurface structures. Some hypotheses to explain the function of the meso and metanotal glands in male crickets are presented.

Materials and Methods A new species of the genus Strinatia Chopard is described. The new species differs from S. brevipennis Chopard, the only other known species of the genus, in body color pattern, chromosome number and the structure of the male and female genitalia sclerites. Strinatia shows affinities with Eidmanacris-they both have low chromosome numbers, a reduction of the tegmina to small pads, and the absence of tibial tympanum. However, they differ in the size of the stylet, which is very short in Strinatia and elongated in Eidmanacris species, and in the shape of the distal ectophallic sclerites. [

In August 1992 we collected a few specimens of an undescribed phalangopsid cricket from the leaf litter inside a small patch of remnant forest in Botucatu, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Prior to fixation, these specimens were kept alive in the laboratory for a few weeks and we had the opportunity to observe the courtship and copulatory behaviors as well as record the acoustic emissions performed by courting males.