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in front; the inner pair attenuated in front; the outer pair very short; 

 some minute black marks in front. Eyes black. Antennae piceous, testa- 

 ceous towards the base. Prothorax with a broad black slightly undulating 

 stripe on each side: disk with a transverse lanceolate curved pale streak on 

 each side. Hind femora with oblique pale brown streaks ; hind tibiaB with 

 five spines on the outer side and with four on the inner side; anterior 

 femora with brown spots; anterior tibia? with brown bauds. Fore wings 

 extending nearly to the tip of the abdomen. Hind wings not apparent. 

 Length of the body 7 lines. 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



47. GRYLLUS IGNOBILTS. 



Fcem. Pieens, tomentosus ; caput nitons, fulvo biplagiatum ; antenna 

 corpore mill to longiores ; cerci abdomine paullo long lores ; oviductvs 

 corpore vix brevior ; femora postica fulva slrigata ; alee anticte 

 abdomine breviores, basi slrigaque taitaceis, apud cos tain cinerece venis 

 tcstaceis ; alee posticce brevissimce out nullce. Mas. Caput fulvo 

 bilincatum ; alte anticce abdomine vix breviores, gutta basali costaque 

 basi albidis. 



Female. Piceous, tomentose. Head shining; sockets of the antennae 

 and a patch in front of each eye tawny. Mandibles reddish, black at the 

 base and with black teeth. Eyes ferruginous. Antenna? much longer than 

 the body. Cerci a little longer than the abdomen. Oviduct nearly as long 

 as the body, forked at the tip. Hind femora with tawny oblique streaks ; 

 hind tibiae with six spines on the outer side and with five on the inner side. 

 Fore wings shorter than the abdomen, testaceous at the base, and with a 

 testaceous streak along the mediastinal vein ; costal space cinereous, with 

 testaceous veins. Hind wings not developed. Male. Elead with two 

 longitudinal tawny lines on the vertex. Fore wings nearly as long as the 

 abdomen ; a whitish dot at the base of the mediastinal vein ; costal space 

 whitish at the base. Length of the body 9 lines. 



a d. Natal. From M. Gueiuzius' collection. 



48. GRYLLUS MACRURUS. 



Foam. Piceus, tomentosus; caput nitens, facie sordide testacea; palpi 

 picei ; antenna corpore multo longiores ; venter lestaceo vittatus ; cerci 

 sordide futvi, abdomine longiores ; oviductus corpore paullo Ion yior ; 

 pedes poslici longi, femoribus cinereo substrigatis ; alee anticce 

 fnacescentes, abdominis apiceni atlingenles, picco nnivitlatce ; alec 

 poslicae abdomen longissime superantes. 



Female. Piceous, toraentose. Head shining, tomentose along the 

 hind border, dingy testaceous in front. Palpi piceous. Antennas black, 

 much longer than the body. Abdomen beneath with a dingy testaceous 

 stripe. Cerci dingy tawny, longer than the abdomen. Oviduct a little 

 longer than the body. Hind legs elongate ; femora obliquely and 

 indistinctly streaked with cinereous ; hind tibia3 with six spines on the 

 outer side and with five on the inner side. Fore wings brownish, as long 

 as the abdomen, with a piceous stripe along the lateral keel. Hind wings 



