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pale ruddy yellowish-brown. Subgenital lamina yellow- 

 ish, long, turned sharply upwards, truncate at apex, 

 median longitudinal ridge below. 



FEMALE IMAGO (PI. XVII, fig. 4*).- -Colouring much 

 as in the male, but build somewhat more bulky. 

 Wings abortive as in the male, and elytra still smaller 

 than in that sex. Ovipositor short, broad, dilated at 

 the base, then much compressed, upper margin slightly 

 and lower very much curved upwards, shining green 

 with crimson-brown margins, edges crenulated in the 

 apical part: 



EGGS (fig. 20). --In this species the eggs are totally 

 unlike the eggs of any other British locustid with 

 which I am acquainted. They are flat and very thin, 

 elliptical in outline, reddish-brown in colour, and about 

 3 mm. long by 1/7-3 broad. To all appearance they 

 are admirably adapted for laying in very narrow chinks 

 in the bark of a tree. 



NYMPH.- -Between the nymphs and the adults there 

 is a very close reseml dance which is enhanced by the 

 very rudimentary condition, in the latter, of the organs 

 of flight. 



VACATION.- -There may be a little difference in size 

 and slight differences in colour, but, as far as my own 



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experience goes, the species is a very constant one. 



DATE.- -Though imagines may sometimes occur at 

 the end of July, August and September are the best 

 months for adults. They may continue into October, 

 and according to C. W. Dale they have occurred at 

 Grlanvilles Wootton late in November. Xo doubt the 

 eggs are laid in the autumn and hatch in the following 

 spring. 



HABITS, ETC.- -A strange looking insect is our sole 

 representative of the genus Leptophyes and of the 

 family Phaneropteridge. It may be found on shrubs 

 and bushes, a favourite resting-place apparently being 

 the upper surface of a bramble-leaf, where, as it is far 

 from agile, it may be captured without much trouble, 



