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longer than the abdomen, very much deflexed, im- 

 maculate, flat at the base of the suture, where in the 

 male is an ocellar process, transparent on the right 

 elytron ; wings ample, narrowish, as long as the elytra ; 

 breast beneath with two spinous processes and four 

 elongate lobes ; abdomen of the males with four styles 

 at the apex, and of the female with two and an 

 elongate straight acute ovipositor ; legs moderate ; 

 hinder femora with a groove beneath ; tibia3 spinous, 

 posterior with two distinct rows of minute spines.' 1 

 (' Illus. Brit. Ent., Hand.' vol. vi, p. 15, 1835.) 



1. Phasgonura viridissima Linn. 



(Plate XIV, fig. 1; PI. XVII, fig. 2; PI. XVIII, 



figs. 1 and 2.) 



viridissima LINN. Syst. Nat. (ed. x), i, 



p. 430, 11. 37 ... 1758 Gryllus Tettigonia. 

 viridissimus LINN. Faun. Suec. (ed. ii), 



p. 237, 11. 869 1761 Gryllus. 

 viridis cantatrix DE GEER Mem. Ins. iii, 



p. 428, n. 1. . . 1773 Locusta. 



viridissima FABR. Syst. Ent. p. 280. n. 22 1775 Locusta. 

 viridissimus THUNB. Mem. Acad. Petersb. 



v, p. 278 .... 1815 Conoceplialus. 

 viridissima WESTW. Stephens 111. Brit. 



Ent. Maud. vi. p. 16 . . 1835 Phasgonura. 

 BRUNNER Prodr. Enr. Orth. 



p. 307 .... 1882 Locusta. 

 FINOT Faune de la Fr., Ortli. 



p. 191 .... 1889 Locusta. 

 . ELAND SHAW Mon. Brit. 



Orth. in Ent. Mo. Mag. 



p. 62 1890 Locusta. 



BURR Brit. Orth. p. 54, pi. iv, 



f. 11 1897 Locusta. 



Viridissima KIRBY Syii. Cat. Orth. ii, 



p. 217 . " . . . . 1906 Phasgonura. 

 viridissima BURR Syn. Orth. W. Eur. 



p. 93 . . . . 1910 Locusta. 



LUCAS Proc. S. Loiid. Ent. 



Soc. p. 53, pi. i, f . 1 ; pi. ii 1914 Phasgonura. 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 



viridissimus. 37. Gr. T. thorace rotundato, alis viridibus ininiaculatis, 



antennis setaceis longissimis. 

 Habitat in Europa. 

 Ensis rectissimus, strictus. 

 (C. Linmeus, ' Syst. Nat,' ed. x, torn, i, p. 430, 1758.) 



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