3 '2 CATALOGUE OF 



fulvi,femoribits poitieis fuloo strigatis ; alee anticce picetf, abilominis 

 apiceni atlingentes, spalio costali diaphano venis p'Jtllide testaceis ; alee 

 posticce abdomen longe siiperantes. 



Male. Black, shining. Head with a tawny band behind the eyes and 

 with an angular transverse tawny line between the ocelli ; a whitish streak 

 on theclypeus; fore pat t and under side tawny, the former with a very 

 large piceous spot. Eyes piceous. Palpi tawny ; third joint piceous 

 towards the lip. Prothorax with a tawny border and with two large tawny 

 patches on the hind side. Peel us tawny. Abdomen piceous beneath. 

 Cerci piceous, as long as the abdomen. Legs tawny ; hind femora with 

 oblique piceous streaks ; hind tibiae with five spines on each side. Fore 

 wings piceous, extending to the tip of the abdomen, pellucid and with pale 

 totaeeous veins along the co>ta ; left winji with a pellucid stripe along the 

 mediastinal vein. Hind wings extending much beyond the abdomen. Length 

 of the body 9 lines. 

 a. Natal. From M. Gueinzlus' collection. 



54. GRYLLUS LUCENS. 



Mas. Niger, nitens ; caput lateribus, margine anlico palpisque testaceis ; 

 antennae picece, basi testaceee ; ihoracis latera testacea; abdomen 

 piceum, villa ventrali testacea; cerci testacei, abdomine wutlo 

 breviores ; pedes testacei, femoribus apice tibiisque basi fnhis, 

 femoribus poslicis supra piceis teslaceo strigatis; alee antica fuscce, 

 abdominisapicem attingenles^spatio subcostati tympanoque diaphanis ; 

 alee posticce abdomen longissime supcrantes. 



Male. Black, shining. Head testaceous on each side and in front. 

 Palpi testaceous. Antennas piceous, testaceous at the base. Thorax testa- 

 ceous along each side. Pectus testaceous. Abdomen piceous, with a testa- 

 ceous ventral stripe. Cerci testaceous, much shorter than the abdomen. 

 Legs testaceous; femora at the tips and tibia? at the base tawny; hind 

 femora piceous above, with testaceous oblique stieaks on each side; hind 

 libia3 with five spines on each side. Fore wings brown, extending to the 

 tip of the abdomen ; subcostal space and tympanum pellucid ; apical part 

 thickly reticulated. Hind wings pellucid, extending very much beyond the 

 abdomen ; veins white. Length of the body 9 lines. 



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



Madagascar. 



55. GKYLLUS MAUAGASCAIUENSIS. 



Ma?. Niger, nitens, robusliis ; caput antice obscure rufum ; palpi picei ; 

 venter nonnunquam rufo unimaculatus ; pedes rw/i, crussi,fnmoribus 

 posticis vix strialis, spin is longis crassis ; alee anticce }pallidissime 

 teslacece, abdominis apicem fere attinyenles, disco pallidc cinereo ; alee 

 posticce brevissimcc. 



Male. Black, shining, stout. Head dark red in front and beneath 

 except the clypens. Eyes and palpi piceous. Abdomen with a dark red 

 spot on the under side or wholly black. Legs red, very stout; hind femora 



