1889.] 



409 



The departure of the mail in a couple of days deprives me of the 

 power of attaching to these notes figures, from my own specimens, of 

 the points referred to above. In concluding, let me express the hope 

 that Mr. Morgan's papers are only an earnest of an awakening interest 

 amongst English entomologists for the Coccids. 



Wellington, New Zealand : 



June 25th, 1889. 



SYNOPSIS OF THE BEITISH ORTEOPTERA. 



BY ELAND SHAW, F.E.S. 



{Continued from p. 372). 



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Fi*3. 



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*:r\a.*^: twbx* A , r . 



Fig. 3.— Head and pronotum of Stenobolhrus bicolor, Charp. a, antennas ; o, ocelli /, foveolse of 

 the vertex ; e, eye ; p p', pronotum ; I c, lateral ridges of pronotum ; m c. median 

 ridge of pronotum. (This fig. is somewhat diagrammatic). 



Fig. 4.— Apex of the abdomen of St. bicolor, Charp., ?. sap, supra-anal plate; c, cerci; vo, 

 valves of the ovipositor ; sg I, subgenital lamina. 



Fig. 5.— Left elytron of St. bicolor, $ . m, mediastinal vein ; a r, anterior radial vein ; m r, middle 

 radial vein : p r, posterior radial vein ; a u, anterior ulnar vein ; p u, posterior ulnar 

 vein ; d, dividing vein ; pi, vena plicata ; med ar, mediastinal area ; scap ar, scapular 

 area ; a r ar, anterior radial area ; p r ar, posterior radial area ; disc ar, discoidal 

 area ; u ar, ulnar area ; an ar, anal area. 



This is the most numerously represented Family amongst the 

 British Orthoptera, and includes the common field grasshoppers. The 



