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CATALOGUE OF ORTHOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



beneath dirty luteous, with two small dark spots between 

 the insertion of the middle and hind legs. 



Plate XXVII. Fig. 6. The female, of the natural size. 6 a. 

 The body of the insect seen sideways. 



Genus 6. LONCHODES. 



Lonchodes, G. R. Gray. 

 Bacteria, pt., Be Haan. 



Body very long and slender, that of the female more 

 robust. Head small, simple, or slightly bispinose. Ocelli 

 wanting. Antennae long and slender. Thorax subcylin- 

 drical, as long as the abdomen, dilated at the place of 

 insertion of the two hind pairs of legs. Abdomen short, 

 subcylindrical, with the apex lanceolate in the male, and 

 deeply cleft. Operculum of the female not porrected. Legs 

 moderately long, more or less dentate, the intermediate 

 ones shorter than the others ; basal joint of tarsi long ; 

 legs of female shorter. 



This genus is here made to include all those Eastern 

 species of the family, the males of which are distinguished 

 by having the terminal segment of the abdomen attenuated 

 and deeply cleft. The species of which females alone are 

 known are assigned to the group from analogy with those 

 of which the females are known. There is, however, con- 

 siderable diversity in the group, the extreme forms of 

 which appear to be indicated by L. brevipes, nematodes, 

 and virgea. 



1. (99.) Lonchodes brevipes. 



Mas. Brunneus; thorace scabriusculo, abdominis lon- 

 gitudine ; capite cornubus duobus minutis armato ; pe- 

 dibus brevibus, mediis brevioribus, femoribus mediis crassis, 

 subtus apice dentatis ; tarsorum auticorum articulo lmo 

 supra dilatato. 



Foem. Brunnea ; capite cornubus duobus brevibus ; tho- 

 race scabriusculo ; pedibus brevioribus, foliato-compressis, 

 iuterruptis ; tarsorum anticorum articulo lmo elongato, 

 dilatato, erecto. 



Long. corp. maris 2" 4'"— 4" ; anten. 2". 



Long. corp. foem. 4" 8'" ; anten. 1" 6'". 



Mas. Lonchodes brevipes, G. R. Gray, Syn. Phasm. p. 19. 

 Foem. Lonchodes pterodactylus, G. R. Gray, Syn. Phasm 

 p. 19. 



Hab. In Ora Malabariensi. B.M. 



The National Museum contains three specimens of the 

 male completely agreeing together. The two horns on the 

 head are very small, and placed between*the anterior part 



of the eyes. The body is entirely covered with minute 

 white granules, which are less distinct on the abdomen. 

 The mesothorax is strongly dilated at its extremity ; the 

 upper surface of the thoracic and abdominal segments arc 

 destitute of a fine raised longitudinal dorsal line, except 

 the terminal segments of the abdomen, which are carinated ; 

 the seventh dorsal segment is conical, the eighth and ninth 

 obconic, the ninth with a fine slit extending to the base, 

 but with the edges of only the hinder half of the slit apart. 

 The two anal styles are short, deflexed, straight, and affixed 

 in the middle of the under side of the ninth segment. 

 The three terminal ventral segments are gradually dilated 

 from the base to the middle of the ninth segment, which is 

 slightly swollen, its extremity scarcely extending beyond 

 the base of the ninth dorsal segment. The anterior legs 

 have one or two small spines beneath near the tip, and the 

 basal joint of the fore tarsi is elevated, being widest towards 

 the tip ; the middle femora are considerably thickened, 

 armed beneath near the tip with a triangular lobe, ex- 

 ternally denticulated; the hind femora are slender, with 

 several minute spines near the tip. The proportions of a 

 full-grown male are — Body, unc. 4 T L ; head, lin. 2 ; proth. 

 lin. 2; mesoth. lin. 13; metath. lin. 9^; abdom. lin. 18 

 +lin. 5=lin. 23. 



The typical specimen of L. pterodactylus is a female, in 

 the Collection of the British Museum, and is unquestion- 

 ably the female of L. brevipes. The two horns on the head 

 are very minute and scarcely distinct ; the mesothorax is 

 much swollen behind, the metathorax being considerably 

 wider than the middle of the mesothorax ; the fifth abdo- 

 minal segment is dilated, the sixth narrowed, the seventh 

 nearly as long as the sixth, narrowed ; the eighth and ninth 

 are short and nearly equal in length, the last being termi- 

 nated by a distinct semiovate lobe, like a tenth dorsal seg- 

 ment ; the sixth ventral segment is furnished with a de- 

 flexed point in the middle of its hind margin ; the oper- 

 culum is but slightly dilated, and extends to the extremitv 

 of the ninth dorsal segment, which has its sides notched 

 and armed with two small flattened oval anal styles. The 

 fore tibiae have a small spine near the extremity on the 

 under side ; the fore tibiae have a dilatation near the base 

 and apex on the upper edge, and the basal joint of the 

 fore tarsi is dilated into a large rounded plate on its upper 

 edge ; the middle femora are much thickened, with an an- 

 gulated toothed lobe on the under side near the tip, and an 

 angular projection near the tip on the upper side ; the 

 middle tibiae are very short, with a lobe on both edges 

 near the base. The hind legs are slender, with a small 

 triangular notched lobe near the tip beneath. The pro- 

 portions of a full-grown female are — Body, unc. 4, lin. 11; 



