194 BRITISH ORTHOPTERA. 



1. Leptophyes punctatissima Bosc. 

 (Plate XIV, fig. 5 ; PI. XVII, figs. 3 and 4.) 



1792 Locust a. 

 1839Barbitistes. 



1853 



1878 Leptopli 



punctatissima Bosc Actes, Soc. d'Hist. Nat 



Paris, i, p. 44, pi. x. ff. 5, 6 

 SERV. Ins. Orth. p. 480 

 FISCH. Orth. Eur. p. 232. n. 10 



pi. xii, f. 15 ... 

 ,, BRUNN. Mon. Phan. pp. 78. 80 



Prod, der Eur. Orth. pp. 284. 285 lSS'2Leptcyhyes. 

 FINOT Faune de la Fr. Orth. 



p. 180, pi. ix. f. 123 . . . lS$9Le2)tophyes. 

 SHAW Mon. Brit, Orth. in Ent. 



Mo. Mao-, p. 58 . . . . 1890 Lep^liyes. 



BURR Brit, Orth. p. 50, pi. iv, f. 8 1897 Leptophyes. 



Punctatissima KIRBY Syn. Cat. Orth. ii, p. 389 1906 Leptophyes. 



punctatissima BURR Syn. Orth. W. Eur. p. 86 . 1910 Leptophyes. 



LUCAS Proc, S. Loud. Ent. Soc. 



p. 51. pi. i. f. 5 . . . . 1914 Leptophyes. 



(Other synonyms: L. autumnalis Hagenb. ; E. rirescens Steph. : 

 B. glabricauda Borck (nymph) ; Acrida Standishi Dale (var.) ) 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 



LOCUSTA PUNCTATISSIMA. 



Locusta. Aptera, viridis, tliorace vittis duabus luteis, dbdomine punctis 



numerosis fvscis, dorso linea ferruginca. 

 Habitat Parisiis. 



[A long description in French follows. PL x. fig. 5 shows the male 

 in dorsal view and the female in profile view.] 

 (L. A.G. Bosc, 'Actes Soc. d'Hist, Nat, Paris".' i, p. 45, 1792.) 



MALE IMAGO (PL XVII, fig. 3). General colour full 

 green with numerous small dark dots. Length 12 mm. 

 tinder- surf ace paler and unspotted. Face paler green, 

 unspotted, upper lip whitish ; antennae very long, with 

 a few dark rings, brownish with basal segments more 

 yellow ; eijes yellowish, marked with brown ; top of 

 head edged with yellow laterally. Pronotum green 

 spotted and marked with reddish-brown, and bordered 

 by a yellowish lateral line. Elytra reduced to about 

 the length of the pronotum, dull yellow edged laterally 

 with dark brown. TP/y^/.s abortive. Tibix and tarsi 

 brownish-yellow, femora green with black dots. Abdo- 

 men with rather broad mid-dorsal, ruddy-brown or 

 yellowish line. The strongly incurved pointed cerci 



