INSECTA. 455 



Sabre-grasshoppers, with LINNJEUS Grylli Tettigonice, Syst. Nat. ed. 

 xii. 1, p. 695; the name of Tettigonicc, however, is rightly given 

 by later writers to the Cicadce. 



In many species the tibize of the fore-feet have two oval apertures 

 covered by a tense membrane (see above, p. 283) ; comp. also 

 LANSDOWN GUILDING, Transact, of the Linncean Society, xv. 1827, 

 pp. 153155. 



The wings are in some very short or entirely wanting (Hetrodes, 

 some species of Bradyporus, Saga, &c.) 



LoGUSta GrEOFFROY, FABR., LATE. 



Sub-genera: Bradyporus CHARPENT., Hetrodes FISCH., Ephippi- 

 gera LATE,., Barbitistes CHARPENT., Meconema SERV., Acridopeza 

 GUER., BURM., Pomatonota BURM., Mecopoda SERV., Scaphura KIRBY 

 (and Gymnocera BRULLE), Phaneroptera LATR., SERV., Phylloptera, 

 BURM. (Phylloptera, Ancylecha, Steirodon SERV.), Phyllophora 

 THUNB., HyperomalaSvKV., A spidonotus BRULLE, Pterochroza^KV., 

 Cyrtopliyllus BURM., Pseudophyllus SERV., Aprion SERV., Thliboscelis 

 SERV. (Platyphyllus BURM.), Meroncidius SERV., Acanthodis SERV., 

 BURM. (and Platyphyllus SERV.), Copiophora SERV., Pseudorynchus 

 SERV., Conocephalus THUNB., Agrcecia SERV., Xiphidium BURM. 

 (Xiphidium SERV. and Orchelimum ejusd.), Bucrates BURM., Decticus 

 SERV., BURM., Locusta SERV. (Phasgonura WESTW.), Listroscelis 

 SERV., Saga CHARPENT., Schizodactylus BRULLE (Acheta BURM.), 

 Stenopelmatus BURM., Raphidophora SERV. (Phalangopsis BURM. in 

 part). 



Sp. Locusta pupa, Gryllus pupus L. (Pleterodes pupa, FISCH.), STOLL, 

 Locust. PI. xii. a, fig. 45, 46 ; RCESEL, Ins. n. Locust. Tab. vi. fig. 3 ; DE 

 GEEK, M6m. in. PI. 39, fig. 5 ; wingless, thorax and abdomen armed with 

 spines. From the Cape of Good Hope. 



Locusta viridissima FABK., Gryllus viridissimus L., RCESEL, Ins. n. Locust. 

 Tab. x. xi. ; PANZEE, Deutschl. Ins. Heft 89, Tab. 18, 19, DUMEE. Cons. g6n. 

 s. I. Ins. PL 24, fig. i ; green, without spots, with green shield-covers, and 

 very long antennae. This species is not rare with us on pastures, in gardens, 

 &c. The eggs laid in autumn, pass the winter, and the grasshoppers come 

 forth from them in May or later. After the third moult they shew rudiments 

 of wings and shield- covers (in July) ; towards the end of August they moult 

 for the last time, and become perfect insects. The copulation is repeated a few 

 times, and the eggs are placed in the earth by the female by means of her 

 sabre-shaped ovipositor, not all at once, but at intervals in different places. 

 These grasshoppers die towards the end of autumn. Locusta verrucivora 

 FABR., Gryllus verrucivorus L., RCESEL, Ins. n. Locust. Tab. vm. ix. PANZER, 

 1. 1. Tab. 20, 21 ; this is somewhat smaller, has shorter antenrwe, and brown 



