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species of very aberrant and remarkable grasshoppers, 

 peculiar to South Africa. They are large, with short 

 antennae, and with the pronotum prolonged backward 

 and hood-like. Unhappily, although amongst the most 

 remarkable of insects, we are unacquainted with their 

 habits. We give an illustration of the beautiful species 

 Pneiimora scutellaris (see Fig. 22). While the male is 

 bountifully winged, the female must be necessarily 

 sedentary, because of the imperfection of her alar 

 system. From the form of the hind legs and their 

 short length, it may be presumed that their leaping 

 powers are null, or but slight. P. scutellaris is very 

 remarkable from the difference in colour of the sexes. 

 So brilliant is the female, she has been said to look as 

 if " got up " for a fancy dress ball. She is of a bright 

 green, with numerous marks or patches of pearly white, 

 each of them invested with a disk of a mauve or 

 magenta colour. Though the female is thus resplendent, 

 her consort is of a modest, almost unornamented green. 

 He is, however, furnished with a musical apparatus, by 

 which he may be enabled to charm his gorgeous but 

 dumb spouse. 1 1 consists of a series of fine ridges situated 

 on the sides of the inflated abdomen, this part of the 

 body having every appearance of being inflated and 

 tense with the result of increasing the volume and 

 quality of the sound. 



The Pamphagides also chiefly inhabit Africa and the 



