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TAB. LXXIII. 
GRYLLU S viridulus. 
Green Grasshopper. 
Class 5. Insecta. Order 2. Orthoptera. 
Gen. Char. Feelers short. Antenna short, com- 
presso-filiform, obtuse. No Scutellum. Elytra 
linear. Posterior thighs formed for leaping. 
Oviduct none, or hidden. 
Spec. Char. Thorax cruciate. Body brown, green 
above. Inner margin of the elytra green. Belly 
yellowish. 
Syn. Linn. Syst . Nat, 702. 54. Faun. Suec. 874. 
Fab. Ent. Syst. em. ii. 61. 59. 
Acrydium viridulum. Degeer, iii. 480. 7. 
Length of the body 11 lines. 
T his species is not very uncommon on sunny banks in the 
autumn. Our specimen was furnished by the Rev. W. 
Kirby. 
The body is brown. The top of the head green, with a 
longitudinal fulvous line. The back of the trunk, or 
thorax, is green, and tricarinate, or distinguished by three 
elevated lines, the lateral ones curved and white, the in- 
termediate one rectilinear and fulvous. The thorax has also 
on each side behind a black line or spot, through which 
the lateral ridges run. The inner margin of the elytia is 
green, the exterior white with red veins. The thighs in the 
recent insect are green, but they fade to a brown. 
