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TABLE OF SPECIES. 



1 . Large and bulky ; colour chiefly black ; 



wings abbreviated ; ocelli nearly in a 



straight line ; length 23 mm. . . G. campestris. 



'1. Smaller and more slender; colour grey- ^ 



brown; wings fully developed; ocelli 



in a triangle; length 18 mm. . . G. domestlcus. 



1. Gryllus campestris Linn. 

 (Plate XIII, fig. 3.) 



campestris LINN. Syst Nat, (ed. x) p. 428 . 1758 Gryllus (Acheta). 



FABR. Syst. Ent. p. 281, n. 7 . 1775 Acheta. 

 ,, SCHRANK Enum. Ins. Austr. p. 



244, n. 465 . . . 1784 Gryllus. 



WHITE (GILBERT) Nat. Hist. 



Selborne, Letter xlvi . . 1789 Gryllus. 

 ,, SATJSS. Mem. Soc. Geneve, xxv, 



p. 105 ..... 1877 Liogryllus. 

 BRUNNER Prod, der Ear. Orth. 



p. 428 . . * . . 1882 GryUu*. 



FINOT Faune de la France, Orth., 



p. 237, pi. xii. f. 152 . . 1889 Gryllus. 

 ELAND SHAW Syii. Brit. Orth., 



in Ent. Mo. Mag. p. 171 . . 1890Gryllus. 



BURR Brit. Orth. p. 65, pi. v, f. 5 1897 Gnjllus. 



Campestris KIRBY Syn. Cat. Orth. ii, p. 25 . 1906 Aclieto. 



rmnpestris BURR Syn. Orth. W. Eur. p. 140 1910 Gryllus. 

 LUCAS Proc. S. Lond. Ent. Soc. 



p. 52, pi. vi, f. 3 . . . 1915 Gryllus. 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 



campestris. 21. G. A. thorace rotundatp, cauda biseta stylo lineari, 



alis elytro brevioribus, corpore nigro. 

 Habitat in Europa australiore. 



(C. Linnaeus, ' Syst. Nat.' (ed. x), i, p. 428, 1758.) 



MALE IMAGO (PI. XIII, fig. 3).- -General colour 

 black; build bulky; size large; leur/tli up to 23 mm. 

 Head large, globular,, broader than the pronotum ; 

 ocelli nearly in a straight line, the middle one a little 



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the lower. Pronotum small compared with the head. 

 Elytra longer than the abdomen, smoky brown, when 

 closed with a yellowish streak extending across their 

 base. Winys shorter than the elytra. Hind femora 

 bright brown below. Hind tibise with five spines on 

 each internal margin (in addition to the apical spines). 



