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DecHcus verrucivorus, Stephens, Mandib., vi, p. 17 ; Fischer, Orth. 



Eur., p. 280, tab. xiii, figs. 2, 2a — m ; Brunner, Prod, der Eur. 



Orth., p. 363, fig. SO. 



Acrida Binqlei, Curtis, Brit. Ent., ii, pi. 82. 



Dec. Binglei, Stephens, Mandib., vi, p. 17. 



Colour variable, deep green, oliraceous, or testaceous, with fuscous martiugs. 

 Head with the vertex broad, rounded, separated from the frous bv a sulcus broader 

 than the first joint of the antennae ; frons green or reddish-fuscous ; antennae about 

 as long as the body, Pronotum above flat, witli three longitudinal ridges, side lobes 

 inserted at an angle, green, with a testaceous central blotch, or wholly testaceous. 

 Elytra longer tlian the abdomen, with several blackish spots, the most distinct being 

 a row of large, mostly square, spots between the posterior radial and ulnar veins. 

 Wings hyaline. Anterior femora very short ; posterior femora long, much thickened 

 at the base, with a few indistinct fuscous markings. Anterior tibife above in the 

 external margin with a row of four spines ; posterior tibiae with four apical spines 

 beneath ; posterior tarsi with the free plantules not so long as the proximal tarsal 

 joint. Abdomen above testaceous or olivaceous, the segments with paler margins 

 and lateral dark dots, below olivaceous or fusco-testaceous. Anal segment in $ 

 deeply excavated with pointed lobes. Cerci in <? dentate about the middle. Sub- 

 genital lamina on either side with a fuscous streak ; subgenital lamina in 5 trian- 

 gular, incised posteriorly with pointed lobes. Ovipositor nearly straight, somewhat 

 incurved towards the apex, where there are some small crenulations. 



Length of the body, 26 — 42 mm. 

 „ „ ovipositor, 17 — 25 mm. 



Stephens (Mandib., vi, 17) records this species as having been 

 once taken near Rochester, and the specimens from which Mr. Curtis 

 Q. c.) described his Acrida Binqlei were from Christchurch, and were 

 evidently of the brown form. There seem to have been no other 

 records of its occurrence until my friend, Mr. H. C. Phillips, took two 

 green female specimens on the cliff near St. Margaret's Bay in August, 

 1886 (vide Trans. Ent. Soc, 1886, p. liii). This species occurs all over 

 Europe, also in Siberia and the Amur district. 



Reputed Species. 



Ephippigera virescens, Steph., Mandib., vi, p. 11, = Leptopliyes punctatissima, 



Bosc, q. v. 

 Xiphidion fusca (Curtis), Steph., Mandib., vi, p. \4^,^ Xiphidium dorsale, Latr.,q. t. 

 Acrida Binglei, Curtis, Brit. Ent., ii, pi. 82, = Decticus verrucivorus, L., brown form. 

 Micropteryx aptera (? Turton), Steph., Mandib., vi, p. 12,^ Thamnotrizon cin- 



ereus, L., q. v. 

 Locusta clypeata, Panzer, Eaun., Ins. Grerm., fasc. 33, pi. 4 {Acrida), Curtis, Brit. 



Ent., ii, pi. 82, = Thamnotrizon cinereits, L., q. v. 



{To he continued.) 



