GRYLLUS HIRTIPES. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Head conic, posterior segment of the thorax 

 elevated into a carina. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body pale green : head above conic, elevated, 

 with dark green lines : antennse red : thorax va- 

 ried with dark green; posterior segment com- 

 pressed above, and elevated into a prominent, 

 arcuated, mutic carina: hemelytra with large, 

 confluent, dark green spots : feet hairy ; posterior 

 tibiae densely hairy. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



A curious species, of which the conic head 

 gives it the air of a Truxalis, but the antennae 

 are not ensiform, neither are the posterior thighs 

 elongated, as in that genus. The anterior seg- 



PLATE XXXIV. 



