14 MANDIBULATA. — ORTHOPTERA. 



The elytra are rather longer in this genus than in the insects of 

 the foregoing, in addition to which the forehead is acute, and the 

 eyes prominent and exserted; the wings are very short, but the 

 antennae are remarkably long and slender. 



fSp. 1. fusca. Viridis, vertice, thoracis dorso, elytrisque fuscis, his longitudine 

 abdominis, margine exteriore pallido ; fceminae ovipositore recto. (Long. corp. 

 5— 6lin.?) 



Lo. fusca. Fabricius. — Ac. fusca. Curtis, fol. 82 (!) — Ac. fusca. Steph. 



Catal. 300. No. 3308. 

 Green, with the crown, the back of the thorax and the elytra fuscous, the 



latter as long as the abdomen, and with the outer margin pale ; ovipositor 



of the female straight. 



I am not positive whether this species is truly indigenous; 

 Mr. Curtis marks it as being in his collection, but as I know he 

 possesses the following species, which he does not indicate, he may 

 be in error. 



Sp. 2. dorsalis. Viridis aut testacea, strigd lata brunnea in dorso verticis 

 thoracisque, elytris corpore dimidio brevibus, antennis longissimis ; Jxeminos 

 ovipositore subrecto, testaceo. (Long. corp. 5 — 75 lin.) 



Lo. dorsalis. Latr. Hist. Nat. Crust. S^c. xi. 133. — Cbarp. Horce Ent. 112. 

 pi. 2. f. 4. — Ac. dorsalis. Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 109. 



Green or testaceous, with a broad brown streak on the back of the crown and 

 of the thorax ; elytra half as long as the abdomen, the latter green, with 

 paler rings, or testaceous-yellow ; ovipositor in the female T*thfiJLJSbQ.rtjr"^ 

 almost straight, being but slightly curved ; antennae very long and slender. 



This insect is not unfrequently met with in the New Forest, and 

 in the neighbourhood of London : it occurs towards the end of July 

 or beginning of August. " Cambridge."" — C. C. Babington, Esq. 



Genus IV.— MECONEMA, ServiUe. 



Body rather slender and attenuated; head acuminated in front between the 

 antennce ; these organs very long and slender, with the basal joint thick, the 

 second also thickened, but considerably smaller than the first ; maxillary 

 palpi with the terminal joint rather short, and considerably thickened at the 

 apex, which is truncate ; eyes very prominent ; thorax rounded above, and 

 gradually deflexed on each side ; elytra ample in both sexes, not ocellated 

 in the males ; wings also ample, as long as the elytra, which extend to the 

 apex of the abdomen, this last in the males somewhat truncate, and fur- 

 nished with two long incurved processes, in the females with a curved 



