UKITISII OKTHOITEKA. 



1. Stenobothrus lineatus Panzer. 

 (Plan* XIX, fig. 3 ; PL XX, fig. 1 ; PL XXIII, fig. 8.) 



lineatus PANZ. Faun. Ins. Germ. fasc. xxxiii, f . 9 1796 Gryllus. 

 FISCH. Orth. Em-, p. 325, 11. 9, pi. xvii, 



f . 1 ..... . . 1853 Stenobothrus. 



BRUNNER Prod. der. Eur. Oith. p. 104 1882 Stenobothrus. 

 SHAW Mem. Brit. Orth. in Ent. Mo. 



Mag. p. 414 ..... 1889 Stenobothrus. 



FINOT Faime de la Fr Orth. pp. 109, 



111, pi. v, ff. 68, 69 . . . . 1889 Stenobothrus. 



BURR Brit. Orth. p. 35, pi. iii. f. 2 . 1897 Stenobothrus. 



BURR Syn. Orth. W. Eur. p. 33 . . 1910 Stenobothrus. 



Lineatus KIRBY Syn. Cat. Orth. iii, p. 162 . 1910 Stenobothrus. 

 lineatus LUCAS Proc. S. Lond. Ent. Soc. p. 29, 



pi. iii, f . 2 ...... 1913 Stenobothrus. 



(Other synonyms: G. (L.) teuellus Stoll; A. megacephalum Seidl.) 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 

 GRYLLUS LINEATUS. 

 Die gestricheUe Grylle. 



Gryllus lineatus : thorace carinato viridis, elytris apice lineola oblique 

 alba. 



Caput viride. Os flavum. Antennae flavae apice fuscae. Thorax 

 carinatus margine laterali utrinque linea elevata rosea. Elytra viridia 

 apice fusca. striga reticulata oblique alba. Corpus fuscuni. Femora 

 postice clavata supra viridia. 



Habitat in Germaniae campis arenosis. 



(G. W. F. Panzer, 'Fauna ins. Germ.' fasc. xxxiii, 1796.) 



[There is a fairly good coloured figure.] 



MALE IiLuaj.- -Much green in the general colouring ; 

 but it is relieved by various markings, which give a 

 pleasing appearance. Length some 14-15 mm. Head 

 large, green. Vertex roundly produced a little between 

 the eyes ; foveola3 practically absent, as is also the 

 median s'ulcus of the frons. Pronotum dark green, 

 rounded behind ; cross farrow at about the middle ; 

 lateral carinse slightly angled in the middle of the 

 prozona, pale and often tinged with rosy, interrupting 

 two longitudinal black lines. Elytra (PI. XX, fig. 1) 

 pale brown, with a crescent-shaped white spot sur- 

 rounded by a brown ring ; anal area green ; the wide 

 area between the medius and cubitus crossed by closely 

 set parallel nervures ; costal area long ; elytra longer 

 than the abdomen. Wings smoky at the tip. Hind 



