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.IJIMTISI! OIITIIOITKKA. 



1. Mecostethus grossus Linn. 

 (Plate XX, fig. 4; PL XXII.) 



grossus LINN. Syst. Nat. (ed. x), i, p. 433. 



11. 58 



LINN. Faun. Suec. (ed. ii), p. 239, 



n. 877 



FIEB. Kelch, Orth. Oberschles. p. 1, 



11. 2 



1758 Locust a 

 1761 G-njUus. 



2 Mecostethus. 



1882 Mecostethus. 

 1889Mecostethv*. 



1889Mecostetlnis. 

 1897Mecostethws. 

 1899 Mecostetlut*. 

 1910 Stetheophyma. 



1913Mecostethn*. 



grossum FISCH. Orth. Eur. p. 357, n. ], 



pi. xvi, f . 3 . . . . . 1853 Stetheophyma. 

 grossus FIEB. Syn. Eur. Orth. p. 10 . , 1854 Mecostethus. 

 BRUNNER, Prod. der. Eur. Orth. 



p. 94, f . 24 .. 



SHAW Men. Brit, Orth. in Eiit. 



Mo. Mag. p. 412 .... 



FINOT Faune de la Fr. Orth. p. 104. 



pi. iv. f . 61 . ... 



BURR Brit. Orth. p. 33, pi. iii, f. 1 



,, LUCAS Entomologist, p. 169, pi. ii 



Grossum KIRBY Syn. Cat. Orth. iii, p. 167 . 



grossus LUCAS Proc. S.Loiid. Ent. Soc.p. 2s. 



1 f* o 



pi. ill, I. o 



(Other synonyms: A. rubripes De Geer; G. L. germanicus Stoll ; 

 G. flavipes Gmel.; G. flavipes Steph.) 



Unfortunately there has been considerable confusion in the nomen- 

 clature of this species. Several specimens are in the British 

 Museum Collection, in the Hope Museum at Oxford, and in the 

 Dublin Natural History Museum, in each case labelled fl.avij- -. 

 This is due no doubt to Donovan who gives a good figure of 

 the species (' Nat. Hist. Brit. Ins.' xii, p. 87, tab. 391), but applies 

 to it Guielhrs name flavipes. Ridley's Kerry specimen w;i> 

 recorded as Pachytylus cinerascens Fabr.. which mistake no 

 doubt arose through his finding, either in Fischer's ' Orthoptera 

 Europsea' or in Brunner's ' Prodromus,' Locusta flavipes given 

 as a synonym for Pachytylus cinerascens, the second error being 

 probably due to the former (vide Eland Shaw, ' Ent. Mo. Mag.' 

 1889, p. 412, and 1893, p. 20). 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 



grossus. 58. G. L. femoribus sanguineis, elytris virescenti-subrufis, 



aiitennis cyliiidricis. Fn. svec. 627. 

 Habitat in Europa. 



(C. Linnaeus, 'Syst. Nat.' ed. x, torn, i, p. 433, 1758.) 

 877. GRYLLUS grossus femoribus sanguineis. elytris virescenti- 

 subrufis, aiitennis cyliiidricis. Fn. 627. 

 Habitat in pratis rarius, ut Bolstavik et alibi in Roslag/'a. 

 DESCR. Est e maximis nostris, et reliquis pallidior et femoribus 

 subtus rubris saturatioribus. Abdomen subtus viridi-flavum. 

 Elytra flavo-pallida, prsesertim aiitico margine, alias reticulata 



