78 ORTIIOPTERA 



Sectioit— S ALT ATOEI A . 

 Body generally slender ; hind legs saltatorial, the femora thickened. 

 Female generally Avith an ovipositor. 



Elytra horizontal in repose. Gri/llidce. 

 Elytra inclined in repose. 



Antennae long, setaceous. Locustida. 

 Antennae shorty filiform. Acrididoe. 



Eamily — GiiTLLiDiE. 

 Body cylindrical ; head free, thick ; antennae setaceous ; fore wings 

 horizontal, hinder larger^ closely folded. 



aeniis-aEYLLOTALPA, 



Ray. 

 Fore legs fossorial, palmate; hind tarsi normal; tarsi three-jointed ; 

 ovipositor not exserted. 



G. AFRiCANA. Pal. Beauv. Walker, Cat. Denuap. Salt. Brit. Mas., p. 4. 



Body silky, reddish-hrown above and yellowish-brown and very 

 pubescent below ; front femora not notched in front. 



Length, 13 to 14) lines. 



South Africa ; India ; Australia ; New Zealand (Mr. Clmrton ; 

 Major Parry). No doiibt introduced from Australia. I have seen 

 no New Zealand specimens. 



Genus-GEYLLUS. 

 LimKBus. 

 Fore legs simple ; head prominent, rounded in front. Hind tibiae 

 with stout approximate spines ; tarsi three-jointed, the first joint 

 smooth in the hind legs. Oviduct long, narrow. 



G. ruLiGiNosus. Serv., Hist. Orth., p. 334 (1839). Walker, I.e., p. 4.2. 



Head and thorax shining-black ; elytra scarcely longer than the 

 abdomen, uniformly blackish in the male, shaded with paler in the 

 female, the sides depressed, smokj^-grey with brown nervures. Wings 

 smoky, prolonged into a tail which extends half an inch beyond the 

 elytra. Abdomen blackish. Legs blackish ; posterior thighs strong, 

 tinted reddish, especially at the inferior base ; posterior tibiae armed 

 above, for the lower three quarters of their length, with two rows of 

 strong spines, six on each side. Antennae black, about the length of 

 the body. (Scrville.) 



Length, 1 inch. 



Australia. Auckland, Wellington, Nelson, Probably introduced 

 from Australia. 



