178 I5KITI8H OKTHOPTEUA. 



M;II. GRYLLUS viridissimus thorace rotundato, alls viridibus 



immaculatis, antennis setaceis longissimis. 

 Habitat in Pratis rarius. 



DESCR. Corpus inter nostrates maximum. Caput et Thorax 

 olivaces. Thorn.!- lyevis iiec angnlatus, dorso planiusculus 

 lobo scutellari obtusissimo. Ahr virides immaculatse. Ensis 

 recta. 



(C. Linnanis, 'Faun. Suec.' p. 237, 1761.) 



MALE IMAGO (PI. XVII, fig. 2). Colour bright rich 

 green, sometimes partly light brown above. Length 

 some 30 mm. Head greenish, with the vertex bluntly 

 protruding between the eyes, and there divided by a 

 longitudinal furrow. Pronotum green or pale brown, 

 saddle-shaped, smooth, rounded behind, often with a 

 darker streak down the middle, sometimes with a 

 slight dorsal carina behind, no lateral carinas. Pro- 



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stt'i'inrm with two long spines, meso- and meta-sternal 

 lobes pointed. Elytra fully developed, green, anal 

 region modified and variegated with brown and 



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yellow. Wings fully developed, hyaline, slightly green 

 along the costal edge ; nervures pale brown. Legs 

 green ; fore and mid femora with short black spines 

 on the front margin below, hind femora with them on 

 both margins ; fore tibia? with a tympanum on both 

 sides and with three spines above ; hind tibia? with 

 two apical spurs above and four below. Anal segment 

 deeply silicate, produced behind into two lobes. Cerci 

 long, slender, green, with an internal basal tooth. 

 Subgenitai lamina with long yellowish styles. 



FEMALE IMAGO (PI. XVIII, fig. T).- -Colouring much 

 as in the male. Length some 30-35 mm. Anal region 

 of the elytra unmodified, and with a varying amount 

 of brown colouring. Elytra and wings both fully 

 developed as in the male. Cerci shorter, without a 

 tooth. Subgenitai lamina strongly emarginate. Ovi- 

 jHwitor some 24mm. long; nearly straight, but turned 

 slightly downwards towards the tip ; green, becoming 

 brown at the apex. 



EGG. --Closely resembling that of T. verrucivora ; 

 dark brown ; cigar-shaped, but curved more on one 



