56 ORTHOPTEROUS INSECTS. 
belongs to the family of grasshoppers with long-antennz (Gryllide, 
Leach), although differing from all the known species of that family 
in several particulars, more especially in the entire want of the 
curious operculum near the base of the anterior tibiz, and the large 
compressed form of the basal joint of the antennz, which is all that 
remains of those organs in the specimen before us. From its 
analogical relations, it may be named— 
PHASMODES RANATRIFORMIS, West. (Prats 63, fig. 4.) 
Char. Gen. 9. Corpus valde elongatum depressum parallelum abdomine sensim in medio 
paullo latiori. Caput horizontale, clypeo labroque magnis discretis. Palpi elongati. Labium 
e lobis duobus membranaceis spinisque duabus intermediis formatum. Antenne articulo 
basali longo compresso. Prothorax elongatus subdepressus subtus inermis: meso- et 
meta-thorax breves subtus etiam inermes linea longitudina mediana impressa (fig. 4 a). 
Abdomen thorace duplo longius ad apicem sensim attenuatum e segmeutis novem dis- 
tinctis formatum.  Oviductus fere abdominis longitudine recta attenuata, e valvulis 
duobus corneis constans, singulo valvulo e duabus partibus formato (fig. 4 6, apex seg- 
menti noni subtus visus: fig. 4 ¢, apex segmenti noni abdominis lateraliter visus cum 
squama conica dorsali styloque laterali et basi oviductus : fig. 4 d, apex valvuli e duabus 
partibus constans, supera ad apicem emarginata, infera acuta et subtus tuberculo instructa). 
Pedes 4 antici longitudine xquales, graciles, tibie anticee operculo nullo instructee. Tarsi 
4-articulati pilosi articulo penultimo cordato. Tegmina nulla. Ale nulla. Mas latet. 
Char. Spec. P. viridis, levis lateribus corporis linea brunnea notatis, tibiis anticis versus 
basin macula parva fusca. 
Long. corp. unc. 22. Oviductus, unc. 14. 
Habitat. King George’s Sound, Nov. Holl. In Mus. Brit. 
The nearest approach to the last-described insect amongst the 
species of the family Gryllide, Leach (Locustaires Serville,) is made 
b 
‘ Procuitus Ausrrauis of Brullé,* 
described more in detail by M. Serville; As no figure of this 
insect has hitherto appeared,t and as the male alone has been 
described, I have represented the female in plate 63, fig. 3, and 
which agrees in general character with the male, which has the 
abdomen truncate at the tip. I have possessed this insect many 
years; and Mr. Hope also possesses three specimens—one from 
the Haworthian Collection. Messrs. Brullé and Serville do not 
speak of the red base of the hind wings; and the latter states that 
the head is longer than the prothorax, and that the stridulant 
organ of the males is transparent, which do not agree with the 
specimens before me; although they correspond in every other 
respect with the description given by M. Serville. 
The plant represented in the plate is Physalis edulis, a native of 
Peru and Chili, but cultivated at the Cape of Good Hope, and in 
the English Settlements in New South Wales, where it is known 
under the name of the Cape Gooseberry. 
* Hist. Nat. des Ins., Orthopt. et Hemipt., p. 135. 
+ Hist, Nat. Orthopt., p. 384. 
¢ Brullé and Serville refer to a figure of this inseet, “ Plate 11, fig. 1, Male,” but no such 
has hitherto been published. 
