248 SYSTEMATIC ARRANGEMENT. 



ACHETA ARACHNOIDES. 



PLATE VI. Fig. 1. 

 IT is a native of Jamaica, and specimens are preserved 

 in the collection of the Entomological Club of Lon- 

 don. From its peculiar form and resemblance to a 

 spider, Mr. Westwood has given it the specific name 

 of Arachnoides. It is about seven lines in length, 

 exclusive of the anal filaments, of a yellowish hue, 

 variegated with dusky brown. The head is trans- 

 verse, produced in front, between the antennae, into 

 an oblong black hirsute point ; of a dull clay colour, 

 with dark brown markings. Two ocelli are dis- 

 tinctly visible near to and behind the insertion of the 

 antennae. The latter are very long and multiarticu- 

 late ; the palpi likewise long and slender, with the 

 terminal joint very slightly securiform. The thorax 

 is transverse, dull clay coloured, varied with brown 

 the tegmina short, the dorsal portion of each forming 

 nearly a circle, of a dull reddish clay colour, with 

 the basal portion darker. The legs are of great 

 length, of a dirty ochre yellow, with the four anterior 

 thighs and tibiae ringed with brown, the anterior tibiae 

 furnished with a minute talc-like spot at the base. 

 The antennae and anal filaments dirty clay colour. 



FAM. GRYLLID^. 



THIS family comprehends the extensive tribe of grass- 

 hoppers, which have often been confounded, both by 

 popular and scientific writers, with the true locusts 



