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It much resembles G. signifera, but the legs are shorter and a lilile 

 more slender; the bind wings arc a lilile shorter and iheir bands are fewer 

 and less regular. 

 a, Hiudoslan. From Archdeacon Clerk's collection. 



10. Gkyllacris fcscifbons. 



fuscifron?, Gertt. Wiegm. Arch. xxvi. 255 — tessellata ? Haan, Bijd. Orlh. 

 220. 



Java. 



A specimen from Bourn in Mr. Saunders' collection appears to be a 

 variely of tiiis species. The oviduct is much longer iban the abdomen. 

 The hind wings have six l)ioad black bunds and some intermediate black 

 dois; the bands are more regular in the right wing than in the left ; the 

 sixth is narrower than the others, and there is an exterior black line. 



11. Gryllacris herds. 



leros, Gerst. Wiegm. Arch. xxvi. 257. 



Amboina. 



12. Gryllacris vittata. 



Foem. Fiilva ; caput nigrum, fulvo Irimaculalum ; palpi teslacei, pro' 

 thorax sulcis nigra marginatis ; oviductus arciiatu<;, abdomine paullo 

 longior ; alie anticcB testacece, vitta discoidali nigricante informi 

 abbreviala, veniilis traiisiersis nonnullis nigricante nebulosis ; ala: 

 posticd Jlavo-alb(E,fasciis septem nigris sat latis. 



Ft male. Tawny. Head black, as broad as the prothorax, with three 

 elongated tawny spots between ibe eyes, (he middle one in advance of the 

 other two. Eyes tawny. Palpi testaceous; fifth joint of the maxillary 

 italpi much longer ihan the fourth; third joint of the labial palpi clavale. 

 Prothorax with a transverse furrow near the fore border and an oblique 

 furrow on each side ; furrows bordered with black. Cerci about one-fourth 

 of tlie length of the oviduct. Oviduct curved upward, a little longer than 

 the abdomen. Legs thick ; hind femora with seven spines on each side, 

 these spines successively increasing in size to the apical one; hind libisB 

 with seven shorter spines on the outer side and with six on the inner side; 

 the spines on the one side aliernale with those on the other. I'ore wings 

 testaceous, a little shorter than the bind wings, with an irregular abbre- 

 viated discoidal blackish stripe, some of the adjoining transverse sectors 

 clouded with blackish; the other veins lawny, except those in the stripe. 

 Hind wings yellowish white, with seven black irregular rather broad bands; 

 longitudinal veins tawny ; transverse sectors black. Length of the body 

 15 lines; of the fore wings .35 lines. 



The stripe on the fore wings and the broad bands on the hind wings 

 distinguish it from G. fuscifrons ; the former character distinguishes it 

 from G. heros, from which it differs in the reins of the fore wings, which are 

 not whitish at the base. 



a. Tenasserim. Presented by J. C. D. V. Packman, Esq. 



