248 BIimSH OKTIIOPTKKA. 



dour, Tentsmuir, find Kinghorn (Evans). Haddington: 

 North of Tynemouth, Waughton, Port Seton, Dunbnr, Luff- 

 ness Links, type and var. pnrpurascenx, Nortli Berwick, and 

 Grullane (Evans). Mid Lothian: Dalkeitli Park (Ecdii*). 

 }\'it/finrn: Near Kirkcowan Station, about 8 miles from the 

 sea (Brock). 



IRELAND.- -Wicklovv. Dublin, Limerick, Kerry, and Louth 

 (fide Kemp) near Limerick (Sh-aw). In Co. Dublin- -Ho nth, 

 Dalkey, Malaliide, and Three Rock Mountain (Shaic). 



5. St. (Chorthippus) elegans Charp. 

 (Plate XIX, fig. 7; PL XX, fig. 8; PL XXIII, fig. 9.) 



elegans CHARP. Hor. Eiit. p. 153 . . 1825 Gryllus. 



FISCH. Orth. Eur. p. 318, n. 4, 



pi. 16, f. 11 . . . 1853Stenol)othru8. 



FIEB. Lotos, iii, p. 117, n. 32 . 1853 Chorthippus. 



BRUNNER Prod, der Eur. Orth. 



p. 125, f. 28 H . . . 1882Stenobothrus. 

 SHAW Mon. Brit, Orth. in Eiit 



Mo. Mag. p. 418 . . . I889-r-8tenol>athnM. 

 FINOT Faune de la Fr. Orth. 



pp. Ill, 116, pi. vii, ff. 89, 90 1889Stenobothrus. 

 ., BURR Brit. Orth. p. 37, pi. iii, 



f . 6 1897Stenobothrus. 



BURR Syn. Orth. W. Eur. p. 45 I9IQChorthippu*. 



Albomarginatus KIRBY Syn. Cat. Orth. iii, p. 185 1910 Clioriliippv*. 

 elegans LUCAS Proc. S. Lond. Ent. Soc. 



p. 31, pi. iv, f . 6 . . 1913 Chorfhippus. 



(Other synonyms : L. tricarinata Steph. ; G. blandus Fisch.-Waldh. ; 

 CE. dichroa Eversm.) 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 



Gryllus elegans. 



Gr. capite valde declivi, thorace carinis tribus rectis. 



Mas thoracis dorso rufesceiite, lateribus pleruraque viridibus : elytris 

 ut plurimuni lion coloratis, margiiie aiitico dilatato, corpore paullo 

 longioribus. 



Foemina mare multo major : liiiea atra thoracis, carinis lateralibus 

 plerumcRie adhaerente : elytris oblongis (11011 dilatatis) corpore breviori- 

 bus, laete viridibus aut rutilo-testaceis, vitta longa alba ad marginem 

 anticum, cui altera atra, interdum satis lata, adjacet. 



Habitat in Silesiae pratis humidis, in Hungaria, in Gallia meridionali. 

 (Charpentier, ' Hor. Ent.' p. 153, 1825.) 



[In 1773 De Geer described certain grasshoppers as Acrydium albo- 

 marqinatum. Kirby in his 'Catalogue' adopts this name in place 

 of C. eleyans for the species under consideration. Possibly De Geer 

 had this species before him, and there may exist the means of knowing 

 this ; but the points of distinction employed seem scarcely sufficient 



