162 BRITISH ORTHOPTERA. 



brachyptera LATR. Cuv. Regne Anim. (ed. 2), v, 



p. 184 note ..... 1829 Anisoptera. 

 STEPH. 111. Br. Ent. Mand. vi, p. 13, 



11. 3 ..... 1835 Micropteryx. 



brachypterus BURM. Hand, ii, p. 711, n. 7 . . 1838 Decticus. 

 FIEB. Kelcli. Kenntn. Orth. p. 2, 



11. 4 ... . . 1852 Platycleis. 



brachyptera BRUNNER Prod, der Eur. Orth. 



p. 356 1882 Platycleis. 



FINOT Faune de la France. Orth. 



pp. 204, 208 .... 1889 Platycleis. 

 ELAND SHAW Mon. Br. Orth., in 



Ent, Mo. Mag. p. 95 . . . 1890 Platycleis. 



BURR Brit. Orth. p. 57, pi. v, f. 1 1897 Platycleis. 



Brachyptera KIRBY Syn. Cat. Orth. p. 209 . 1906 Chelidoptera. 



brachyptera CAUDELL Gen. Ins. Fasc. 72. p. 31 1908 Mefrioptera. 



BURR Syn. Orth. W. Eur. p. 112 . IQIQ Platycleis. 

 LUCAS Proc. S. Lond. Ent. Soc. 



p. 55, pi. i, f. 7; pi. iii, f . i . . 1914 Metrioptera. 



(Other synonyms : P. alpinus Fieb. ; L. marginata Thunb., var. ; 

 P. brachyptera, var. tnacroptera Stal.) 



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ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 



868. GRYLLUS brachypterus griseo-fuscus, elytris alisque corpore 



dimidio brevioribus. 

 Habitat in Suecia, De Geer. 



DESCR. : Thorax latere postico ntrinque linea alba terminatus. 

 Totus viresceus. Femora linea longitudinal i nigra. Al& 

 elytris, elytra abdomine breviora. Ensis adscendens. 

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



MALE IMAGO (PI. XVI, fig. 2). --Colour in general 

 dark brown with darker markings, variegated with 

 green. Length 16 mm. Head having at the top a 

 broad longitudinal pale (sometimes greenish) band, 

 stretching back to the pronotnm, and edged with a 

 wide black stripe. Antennas very slender, longer than 

 the body. Pronotnm flat, with a median carina pos- 

 teriorly, usually dark green dorsally ; a broad pale 

 yellowish band along the hind margin of the dark 

 side-flap. Elytra shorter than the abdomen, pointed, 

 grey-brown with front and hind margins green ; 

 " musical ' apparatus distinctly provided for on the 

 part of the elytra remaining; wings minute- -quite 

 vestigial. Femora with black dots, the swollen base 

 of the hind ones greenish below, and having a longi- 

 tudinal black streak on both aspects. Abdomen yellow 



