252 NEW GRASSHOPPER. 



has already received ample justice in the Narrative of 

 Sir Edward Belcher. The following remarks are the 

 result of my impressions of scenery, and observation of 

 various forms of animated nature, with which I became 

 acquainted during the period of the detention of the ship 

 at Sarawak. 



In the vast forests of the interior of Borneo, there are 

 found enormous Orthopterous insects, huge Grasshoppers, 

 as large or larger than sparrows, of inert and somewhat 

 inactive habits, which hop feebly among the undergrowth, 

 in damp, dark, shady places. A specimen, presented to 

 Sir Edward Belcher by Mr. Brooke, at Sarawak, was of 

 this nature. A giant in size, it measured more than four 

 inches in length ; the leaping members not being well 

 developed, the antennae filiform and of great length, and 

 the colour entirely of a beautiful delicate grass-green. 

 Unfortunately, this magnificent insect was lost, with very 

 many other interesting specimens, during the disaster 

 of the ship in the river. A drawing, which I made 

 before the occurrence of the accident, shows it to belong 

 to an apparently new genus, placed somewhere between 

 Steirodon and Phyttoptera, and, should it eventually prove 

 such, I would suggest to its fortunate re-discoverer, that 

 it should be named Megalacris Brookei, in honour of the 

 philanthropic and talented Rajah of Sarawak, who first 

 procured it from Dyaks, who brought it from the interior 

 of the island. Orthopterous insects swarm in many 

 parts of Borneo, and among others which I have ob- 

 served may be mentioned, as being of especial interest, a 

 Gryttacris with dark chesnut bands on the elytra, and an 

 orange body ; a new and singular Gryttacris covered all 



