416 [October, 1889. 



think, be distinguished from viridulus, L. Of this form I have specimens from 

 Yarmouth (Mr. H. Winston), and Louth (Mr. Wallis Kew). There were some 

 specimens of this species in the British Museum Collection labelled stigmaticus by 

 Stephens. They are certainly not the stigmaticus of Bambur (Faune de l'Anda- 

 lousie, p. 39). Stephens, in Mandib., vi, does not mention stigmaticus; but his 

 description of Lo. aprica at p. 24 probably refers, as Brunner queries, to Bambur's 

 species. The specimen in the Collection labelled aprica in Stephens' writing is St. 

 elegans, Charp. 



3. — Sten^botheus kufipes, Zett. 

 Gryllus rujlpes, Zett., Orth Suec, p. 90. 

 Locusta rtjlpes, Steph., Mandib., vi, p. 25. 



Stenobothrus rujlpes, Eisch., Orth. Eur., p. 331, tab. xvi, figs. 16, 16a ; 

 Brunner, Prod, der Eur. Orth., p. 113. 

 Head fuscous, dark olive-green above. Antennee rather paler ; palpi white at 

 the apex ; frons slightly convex, deeply furrowed centrally. Pronotum with the 

 sides dark fuscous with a few pale markings, disc pale in the centre with a broad 

 black streak on each side, interrupted by the lateral ridges, which are paler and are 

 angled near the anterior margin, scarcely diverging anteriorly ; the cross furrow is 

 rather nearer the anterior than the posterior border. Elytra with the part anterior 

 to the ulnar veins dark fuscous, with a few paler markings in the discoidal area ; 

 and the part posterior to the ulnar veins testaceous in <J , green in $ . Wings smoky 

 at the apex. Posterior femora fuscous outside, with some pale markings, sometimes 

 very dark above, sometimes all sanguineous ; knees and base of tibiae fuscous ; 

 posterior tibise sanguineous in $ , fusco-testaceous in ? , with a pale band below the 

 knee. Abdomen in $ dark fuscous above at the base, and at the sides often sangui- 

 neous, base below yellow ; in $ fuscous above, sanguineous below, yellowish at base. 

 Valves of the ovipositor without an external tooth. Length, 14 — 20 mm. 



I have always found rujlpes on open heathy ground just on the 

 outside of a wood or plantation ; and Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse tells me 

 he has taken it in clearings in woods. It seems to be not at all com- 

 mon, though cannot be said to be rare ; it has occurred recently at 

 Wotton (Gloucestershire), New Eorest, Bromley, and Heme Bay, 

 and Mr. Porritt has taken it near York and on Penmaenmawr. It is 

 distributed generally all over Europe, from Sweden to the Medi- 

 terranean. 



There were a number of specimens labelled rujlpes in the British 

 Museum Collection, but most of them were viridulus, L. 



Rufipes is most likely to be confused with viridulus, L., but is generally of a 

 much darker colour, the white palpi show up distinctly, and the elytra are spotted 

 in the discoidal area, and, with the sanguineous abdomen, readily separate it. Some- 

 times the S hicolor, Charp., has the apex reddish, but the much more sharply curved 

 angles of the lateral ridges of the pronotum at once distinguish it from rufipes, Zett. 



Our form of this species is much darker than the continental specimen in my 

 possession ; and I have taken it around Paris as pale or paler than virv u. 



