1890.] 59 



General colour green, -with numerous black dots and some dark markings. 

 Head with the anterior edge of the vertex separated from the frons by a furrow ; 

 antenna} very long, with a few dark annular markings. Pronotum short, elevated 

 posteriorly in $ with two lateral pale brown streaks on the disc, bordered externally 

 by sulphureous sti'eaks, and a transverse one at the anterior margin. Elytra in <? 

 free, as long as the pronotum, with the vena plicata strongly marked ; elytra in ? 

 much shorter than the pronotum. Wings abortive. Cerci in $ smooth, sti'ongly 

 incurved in their lower third, pointed at the apex. Subgenital lamina in $ long^ 

 sharply bent upwards from the base, truncate at the apex, with a median longitudinal 

 ridge below. Ovipositor short, broad, dilated at the base, then much compressed, 

 with the superior margin slightly, and the inferior one much, incurved, having small 

 crenulations for the outer third of its length, more strongly marked below than above. 



Length of the body, $ , 13 mm., $ , 16 mm. 

 „ „ ovipositor, $ , 7 mm. 



Distributed over a large area iu Europe. I think puncfatissima 

 will be found fairly common in England on trees and busbes, late in 

 tbe autumn. I once took several specimens off bramble on Bostal 

 Heath, near Plumstead. Mr. Porritt has taken it " not uncommonly " 

 at Penmaenmawr, and the other localities from which I have it recorded 

 are Hastings, Heme Bay, Bromley, Polegate, Wimbledon, Dartford, 

 and Coombemartin. 



ii.— PHANEROPTERA, Serville. 



Together with the allied genus {Tylopsis, Fieb.), Phaneroptera 

 forms that group of the sub-family of Phaneropteridce, which has the 

 anterior coxae armed with spines. The species are much larger than 

 in the preceding genus, and the elytra and wings are fully developed. 



1. — Phanekopteea falcata. Scop. 

 Gryllus falcntus, Scopoli, Eutom. Carn., p. 108, fig. 322. 

 Phaneroptera falcata, Fischer, Ortb. Eur., p. 238, tab. xii, figs. 21—22 



(except figs. 2\h', c', 22«, 22&') ; Brunner, Prod, der Eur. Orth., 



p. 291. 



Pale green. Head and pronotum dotted with reddish-brown. Pronotum with 

 the lateral lobes longer than they are deep, with the inferior margin obtusely angled 

 anteriorly, rounded posteriorly, and running up to meet the margin of the dorsal 

 part (disc) of the pronotum at an acute angle. Elytra narrow, rounded at the apex, 

 not nearly so long as the wings, with the radial veins distinct from the base, the 

 posterior radial vein giving off two branches. Wings about one-third as long again 

 as the elytra, rounded at the apex. Posterior femora slender, about the same length 

 as the elytra, with some reddish-brown dots above. Antei-ior tibiae with the foramina 

 open, beyond these suddenly narrowing, with only an external apical spine above 

 and only a few spines below. Cerci in (J greatly incurved, about the middle com- 

 pressed, dilated. Subgenital lamina ( $ ) dilated at the apex, with pointed prominent 



