ORTHOPTERA. 



GRYLLOTALPA CHINENS1S. 



Plate 12. fig. 2. 



Family. Achetidje. (Gryllus Aclieta, Linn.) 

 Genus. Gryllotalpa, Latreille. 

 _Ch. Sp. G. luteo fulvescens, tibiis anticis 4-dentatis. Long. Corp. 1 unc. 



G. of a fulvous-clay colour, anterior tibise with four teeth. Length 1 inch. 



Sy*n. G. Chinensis, Westiv. 



Grvllus Gryllotalpa, Donovan, ]st edition. 



The genus of Mole-crickets, Gryllotalpa, comprises several distinct, although very 

 closely allied species, the inhabitants of various countries, differing especially in 

 the number of teeth of the anterior tibise and the neuration of the tegmina. Donovan 

 regarded them as varieties only, observing that the species here figured " differs in no 

 respect from the European species except in size and colour," the English mole-cricket 

 " beino; twice as large and of more of a mouse colour." 



LOCUSTA (PHYMATEA) MORBILLOSA. 



Plate 13. 



Family. Locustidx. 

 Genus. Locust a. 



Sue-Gen. Phymatea, Westiv. Phymateus, Thunberg, Serville. 



Cn. St. L. thorace quadrato, rubro, verrucoso ; elytris fuscis, flavido punctatis ; alis rutis, 

 nigro punctatis. Expans. alar. 4J unc. 

 L. with the thorax squarish, red, warty ; elytra bluish-brown, with pale yellow spots ; 

 wings red, with black spots. Expanse of the wings 4j- inches. 

 Syn. Gryllus morbillosus, Linn. Syst. Nat. 2. 700. (e Cap. Bon Spei). Fabricius Ent. 



" Syst. 2. p. .50. Serville Revis. Orthopt. p. 86. (Phymateus m.) 



Donovan states that « the Gryllus morbillosus appears in the early edition of the 

 Systema Natura and the works of Roesel as an Indian species, and that Mr. Drury 

 assured him he had received it several times from China. Another sort is also found at 

 the Cape of Good Hope, which is rather larger and deeper in colour than the Chinese 



variety." 



If this be correct, it will, I apprehend, be necessary to consider these two sorts as 



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