1890.] 95 



streak on cither side near the base. Anal segment in $ deeply sulcata posteriorly 

 in the middle, lobes acuminate. Cerci conical, with a tooth about the junction of 

 the middle and lower thirds. Subgonital lamina in ? longitudinally sulcata, lobes 

 not produced far, triangularly rounded. Ovipositor incurved from the base. 



Length of the body, 17—23 mm. 

 ,. „ ovipositor, 9—10 mm. 



This species is widely distributed in Europe, and here I know o£ 

 its occurrence in many localities along the south coast. It was common 

 at Charmouth, Dorset, in September, 1887, and in the Land's End 

 district in September, 1889. Mr. Porritt found it " common " at Deal 

 and Folkestone, and also took it in the Isle of Wight. 



2. — Platycleis bracuypteua, Linne. 

 Oryllus {TetU(jonia) hrachypterus, I-inno, Faun. Suec, p. 237. 

 3licropteryx hraclnjptera, Stephens, Mandib., vi, p. 13. 

 Decticus {Platycleis) hrachypterus, Fischer, Orth. Eur., p. 277, tab. 



xiii, figs. 10, 10« — h. 

 JBlatycleis\ hracJiyptera, Fieber, Synopsis, p. 43 ; Brunner, Prod, der 



Eur. Orth., p. 356. 



Generally dark brown, witli green and dark markings. Head with the frons 

 reddish-fuscous, vertex and occiput pale in the middle, sometimes forming a pale 

 broad streak continued to the posterior margin of the disc of the pronotum ; above 

 the eyes is a pitchy streak. Pronotum flat, with the median ridge marked in the 

 posterior part, dark green, side lobes mottled with dark fuscous ; margins paler, the 

 posterior margin more broadly pale. Elytra and wings abbreviated, not so long as 

 the abdomen. Elytra subacuminate, anterior and posterior parts grean, between 

 them mora or less fuscous. All tlie femora with numerous blackish dots ; anterior 

 and middle femora with a black streak near the knee on the posterior aspect ; pos- 

 terior femora greenish beneath, with a black streak on either side near the base. 

 Abdomen with dark lateral streaks, yellowish below. Anal segment in $ excavated 

 posteriorly, with the lobes somewhat acuminate. Cerci in S not protruding beyond 

 the subgenital lamina, dentate about the middle. Subgenital lamina in (J with a 

 small, central, triangular notch posteriorly, greenish in the middle, with a pitchy 

 streak on either side. Subgenital lamina in ? long, with a small, central, triangulaj 

 notch in the posterior margin. Ovipositor regularly incurved, twice as long as the 

 pronotum. 



A variety with much longer elytra and wings, which is found on the continent, 

 has yet to be recorded as British. Length of the body, 12 — 16 mm. 



„ „ ovipositor, 8 — 10 mm. 



" On heathy ground and damp wood meadows from Lapland to 



the Alps, and easterly as far as the Ural " (Brunner von Wattenwyl). 



I found it^fairly common at Bournemouth on the top of the West 



Cliff, in September, 1887, and the late Mr. Kemp-Welch and Mr. H. 



Winston have taken it in the same locality. Mr. Porritt tells me he 



has found it on Strensal Common, York. 



