130 BRITISH ORTHOPTEUA. 



example was taken at Kilmalcolrn in Renfrewshire, and is 

 now in the Museum at Paisley (Stewart). 



IRELAND. One example only represents Ireland also. It is 

 a female taken in County Derry, and presented by Major 

 Bruce to the collection at Trinity College, Dublin. The insect 

 was found in an old buried canoe near Trome at the northern 

 end of Lough Neagh 1899 (fide Kemp}. 



Genus 2. NEMOBIUS Serv. 



Nemobius SERV. Ins. Orth. p. 345 . . 1839. 



Pronemobius BOLIVAR Ann. Sci. Nat. Porto, v, p. 41 . . 1898. 



DESCRIPTION. Size small. The whole body bearing 



v O 



rather long scattered hairs. Head short, blunt ; ocelli, 

 when in evidence, arranged in the form of a triangle. 



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Elytra abbreviated, truncate, radial nervure without 

 branches. Wings (in European species) absent. The 

 fore tibia? furnished with a tympanum on the outer 

 side -only. Hind tibiae with long moveable spines, and 

 six terminal spurs. First segment of hind tarsi hairy, 

 neither sulcate nor serrate above. Ovipositor straight 

 or somewhat incurved. Type of the genus Nemobius 

 sylvestris Fabricius. 



1. Nemobius sylvestris Fabricius. 

 (Plate XIII, figs. 1 and 2.) 



sylvestris FABR. Ent. Syst. ii, p. 33, n. 18 . . 1793 Acheta. 



LATR. Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins. xii, p. 124 . 1804 Gryllus. 



CURTIS Brit. Ent. vii, pi. ccxciii . . 1830 Acheta. 



SERV. Orth. p. 348, no. 1 . . . . 1839 Nemobius. 

 BRUNNER Prod. der. Enr. Orth. p. 424, 



f . 98 1S82 Nemobius. 



FINOT Faune de la Fr., Orth. p. 234, pi. 



xii, f. 151 1889 Nemobic*. 



ELAND SHAW Syn. Brit. Orth., in Ent. 



Mo. Mag. p. 170 1890 Nemobius. 



BURR Brit, Orth. p. 64, pi. v, f . 4 . . ISWNemobius-. 



Sylvestris KIRBY Syn. Cat. Orth. ii, p. 14 . . 1906 Nemobius. 



sylvestris BURR Syn. Orth. "W. Ear. p. 138 . . 1910 Nemobius. 

 JJUCAS Proc. S. Lond. Ent. Soc. p. 51, 



pi. vi, f . 4 . . . . . . 1915 Nemobius. 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 



18. A. aptera nigra elytris fornicatis brevissimis cinereis fusco 



lineatis. sylvestris. 

 Habitat in Gallia Mus. Dom. Bosc. 



