LOCIJSTID.E. LOCUSTA, Sy 



with a longitudinal black streak on each side, not touching' the base, and 

 another towards the base ; elytra of the males pale griseous, with fuscous 

 nervures and a few obscure darker spots, the inner margin sometimes faintly- 

 greenish or reddish ; in the females the same, but the spots more distinct, 

 and occasionally with a slender longitudinal whitish streak at the base of 

 the costa, and an oblique whitish spot near the apex ; abdomen dull testa- 

 ceous, yellowish-green beneath, the sides spotted with black ; legs dull 

 testaceous, spotted with fuscous. 

 Variable : some examples have the carinse on the thorax whitish, giving the 

 appearance of a cross; others — females — have the basal inner portion of the 

 elytra green, rosy or blood-red ; the body (and the back of the thorax) also 

 varies, of similar colours. 



Extremely abundant throughout the metropolitan district, in 

 grassy fields and meadows ; also on the borders of woods, hedges, or 

 banks, &c., at the end of June and in July. 



Sp. 19. mollis. Thoracis carinis lateralibus sinuato-curvatis ; virescens vel gilva, 

 elytris maculisfuscis et apicali alba obliqua. (Long. corp. 8 — 10 lin.) 



Gry. mollis. Charpentier Hoi'w Ent. 164. — Lo. consobrina. Sieph. Catal. 

 301. iVo. 3330. 



Thorax with its lateral carinse with a waved, but not angulated, curve ; colour 

 generally of a fine green, with a yellowish tinge, the hinder portion of the 

 elytra of a reddish tinge, rarely greenish; on their disc is an interrupted 

 row of fuscous spots, and a larger whitish one placed obliquely ; in the 

 males they are slightly dilated, and the apex is considerably attenuated; 

 legs dull testaceous, clouded with dusky. 



Not uncommon within the metropolitan district in June, fre- 

 quenting meadows, he 



Sp. 20. haemorrhoidalis. Thoracis carinis lateralibus antice angulatis ; fusca, 

 elytris fusco alboqve maculatis, margine postico albo, aut viridi, abdominis 

 ultima parte (prcesertim maris) coccinea. (Long. corp. 8 — 11 lin.) 



Gr. haemorrhoidalis. Charpentier Horoe Ent. p. 165. — Lo. obscura. Steph, 

 Catal. 30^. No. 3334. 



Thorax with its lateral carinse angulated anteriorly ; fuscous ; head in the 

 males considerably deflexed ; thorax red-brown, sometimes green, with a 

 black streak on each side accompanying the carina; ; elytra narrow, scarcely- 

 longer than the abdomen, with several dusky spots alternating with pale 

 ones, placed in the middle ; the hinder margin is clearer, and of a whitish 

 or green hue, tinted with bluish ; in the females the markings are stronger, 

 and the hinder portion is generally of a more or less brilliant white, rarely 

 greenish ; this sex has sometimes a broad whitish streak on the head and 

 thorax, extending backwards, to the apex of the elytra, when they are 



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