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Antennae brown and filifonn, the length of the thorax. Head clay-coloured, rounded. Thorax 

 smooth, brown, and angulated. Tegmma clay-coloured. Wings next the body red, and surrounded 

 with a broad black bar running up to the anterior edge, the tips being transparent. Legs clay-coloured. 

 Hinder femora broad, and prettily chequered on the outside, the inside being black. Posterior tibise 

 red and spined. 



GRYLLUS (PHYLLOPTERUS) MYRTIFOLIUS. 



Plate XLI. fig. 2. 



Order: Orthoptera. Section: Saltatoria. Family: Gryllidae (Locustaires, iair. §-c.) 



Genus. Gryllus. Sect. Gryllus (Tettigonia), i«n«. Locusta, Latr. SuBGENns. Phylloptera, Se7-v. 



Gryllus (Phyllopterus) Myrtipolius. Thorace subtetragono,l8evi; alls deflexis elytris longioribus, oviductu 

 brevissimo recurvo. (Expans. tegm. 1 unc. G lin. Alar. 3 unc.) 



SVN. Gryllus Myrtifolius, Liiin. Syst. Nat. 1. 2. 696. 18. Fabr. Ent. Syat. 2. p. 34. De Geer Mem. vol. 2. 

 pi. 41./. 2. Stall. Sauter. pi. a. 5. Jig. 16. Serville Reins. Ortk. p. 45. 



Habitat : New York (Drury). America (Fabr. S,-c.). 



Antennas small and filifonn. Head dusky yellow. Thorax and abdomen brown, but when the 

 insect was living were probably green ; the former has a yellow stripe on each side. Tegmina green, 

 and narrowing towards the tips. Wings thin, transparent, and of a greenish hue. Legs green ; the 

 hinder ones being very long, with the tibiae spined. 



LOCUSTA (RUTIDODERES) CENTURIO. 



Plate XLI. fig. 3. 



Order : Orthoptera. Section : Saltatoria. Family : Gryllidae (Locustaires, Zatr. ^-c.) 



Genus. Locusta. Gryllus (Locusta), iijiH. Acrydium, Latr. Subgenus: Rutiflorteres, Westw. 



LocusTA (Rutidoderes) Centurio. Pallide olivaceo-fulvescens, elyti-is nigro numerose puiietatis, alls san- 



guineis margine nigro et interne nigro tesselatis. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 3 lin.) 

 Syn. Gi-yllus Centurio, Dtniry, App. vol. 2. 

 Habitat : The Bay of Honduras, America. 



Head dusky olive brown. Antennae yellow, the tips black. Eyes red brown. Thorax olive brown, 

 having a sharp indented ridge on the top, and one on each side ; that on the top being black. Abdomen 

 dark brown. Tegmina pale olive, spotted all over with darker spots of various shapes. Wings scarlet; 

 the edges, except the abdominal, black ; which, at the tips, and along the external edges, fonns a kind of 

 lattice work, breaking in upon the black division. Legs yellowish brown, the hinder tibiae being spinose ; 

 tarsi with a cup-like pulvillus between the claws. 



Gryllus reticulatus (Fabr. sp. Ins. L p. SQ'i. No. 7.) figured by Donovan in his Insects 

 of India, PI. 12. Fig. L, and said to be from Bengal, is very closely allied to, if indeed 

 it be not identical with, the species here figured. 



