166 BRITISH ORTHOPTERA. 



Roeselii ELAND SHAW Mon. Brit. Orth. in 



Ent, Mo. Mag. p. 96 . . 1890 Platycleis. 



roeselii BURR Brit. Orth. p. 58. pi. v. f. 2 

 Roeselii KIRBY Syn. Cat, Orth. p. 210 

 roeselii CAUDELL Gen. Ins. Fasc. 72. p. 32 

 BURR Syn. Orth. W. Em-, p. 113 

 CAMPION Entom. xlv. p. 117; xlvi 



p. 37 . 



LUCAS Proc. S. Lond. Ent. Soc 

 p. 56, pi. i, f. 9 . 



1897 Platycleis. 

 1906 Chelidoptera. 



1908 Metrioptera. 

 1910 Platycleis. 



1912-3 Metrioptera. 

 1914Metrioptem. 



(Other synonyms : P. roeseli Bol. ; D. sinuatiis Fiscli. ; L. diluta 

 Charp. var. ; D.pellucida Herr.-Sclmff. ; P. roeselii var. macroptera 

 Brunn. ; P. roeselii var. bispina Bol.) 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 

 Fig. 24. 



LOCUSTA ROESELII. 



Nova species. 



L. viridis vel grisea, thoracis dorso piano, subtricarinato, latevibus 

 flavo-marginato, hemelytris abdominalis tertiam partein aeqnantibus 

 griseis, femoribus posticis vitta loiigitudinali dentata atra, ensi minuto 

 subrecurvo. 



Roesel Insectenbel. Tom. 2, Tab. 20, fig. 9. 



Habitat Basileae. 



[A long description in Latin follows this diagnosis.] 

 (Hagenbach, ' Synib. Faun. Ins. Helv.,' p. 39, 1822.) 



MALE IMAGO (PI. XVI, fig. 1).- -General colour of 

 matured adult brown, variegated with green, especially 

 in specimens which have recently passed through the 

 last ecdysis. Length 16 mm. Head ash-coloured ; 

 vertex very broad, edged with black, and having a 

 central longitudinal fine pale line on each side of 

 which is a fine darker line ; the long slender antennae- 

 light brown. Pronotum with the brown disc broad 

 ,and flat, the dark side-flaps edged "all round' with 

 a pale greenish or yellowish border. Elytra abbreviated 

 (not so long as the abdomen), somewhat rectangular in 

 shape, truncated behind, in colour pale greenish brown 

 with dark brown nervures. Wiiujs minute (about 

 2*5 mm. long), even more vestigial than in M. bracliy- 

 ptera. Legs brown, sometimes with a green tinge in 

 places, hind femora with a broad dark streak on the 

 swollen part. Sides of thorax and abdomen with a 

 row of yellow markings ; dorsal surface of abdomen 



