Female. 
Length of body ... ss oe 64 22) ae 
Length of pronotum ... pe .. + op ae 
Length of elytra me . a 
Length of hind femora ... “e .. eae 
Length of ovipositor ... tas --=)( SCR 
Habitat.—F ii Islands.” 
GRYLLACRIS OCEANICA, Le Guillon (Br, Mon., 112). 
‘Pale reddish-yellow, medial ocelliform spot small, labrum 
-brownish-yellow, mandibles brownish-red, palpi testaceous, elytra 
subpellucid, all the tibize brownish in the middle. Abdomen 
brownish above.” Length of body of male, 19 mm. (Original 
description, 1841). 
Habitat.—Hamoa (most probably Samoa) Island.” 
GRYLLACRIS STRAMINEA, Sr, (ibid, 115). 
Size moderate. Straw-coloured. Head oblong from front 
view, depressed. Face brownish-ferruginous, mandibles much 
darker; medial line raised, uncoloured; ocelliform spot large, 
angularly oval, yellowish-white, extending almost to the apex of 
frontal fastigium. Eyes black, elongate-oval. Fastigium of 
vertex scarcely as wide as the first antennal joint; apex 
prominent, ferruginous, slightly suleate. Antenne wholly pale, 
concolorous with body; about five times the length of the latter; 
first joint longer than the eyes. Pronotum with the disk very 
uneven, medially depressed, foremargin rotundately produced, 
hindmargin almost straight, shortly emarginate; lobes with the 
inferior margin semicircular, deeply sulcate. Elytra and wings 
very pale and pellucid, veins and veinlets concolorous with mem- 
brane, in length slightly exceeding the ovipositor, apex of 
former acuminate. Legs rather short. First spine of fore and 
middle tibie longest, the others gradually shorter. Hind femora 
below, with two to four internal and six to seven external spine- 
lets, mostly very small. Hind tibize above, with six spinelets on 
each margin. Ovipositor curved downward at the base, then 
almost straight; apex incurved, gradually acuminate, shining. 
One female. 
Male (Brunner). Female. 
Length of body ... ... 24 mm. 22 mm. 
Length of pronotum ... 4:5 “ ees 
Length of elytra... coe Geno JO: a 
Length of hind femora ... 14. “ 14 « 
Length of ovipositor .... — 19.36 
Habitat.—South Australia (Adelaide, Brunner) (Coll. S.A. 
Museum). 
