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species of very aberrant and remarkable grasshoppers, 



peculiar to South Africa. They are large, with short 



antennae, and with the pronotum prolonged backward 



and hood-like. Unhappily, although amongst the most 



remarkable of insects, we are unacquainted with their 



habits. We give an illustration of the beautiful species 



Pnezivtora scutellai^is {sQ^ ¥\g. 22). While the male is 



bountifully winged, the female must be necessarily 



sedentary, because of the imperfection of her alar 



system. From the form of the hind legs and their 



short length, it may be presumed that their leaping 



powers are null, or but slight. P. snitellaris is very 



remarkable from the difterence in colour of the sexes. 



So brilliant is the female, she has been said to look as 



if "got up" for a fancy dress ball. She is of a bright 



green, with numerous marks or patches of pearly white, 



each of them invested with a disk of a mauve or 



magenta colour. Though the female is thus resplendent, 



her consort is of a modest, almost unornamented green. 



fie is, however, furnished with a musical apparatus, by 



which he may be enabled to charm his gorgeous but 



dumb spouse. It consists of a series of fine ridges situated 



on the sides of the inflated abdomen, this part of the 



body having every appearance of being inflated and 



tense with the result of increasing the volume and 



quality of the sound. 



The Pamphagides also chiefly inhabit Africa and the 



