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ORTHOPTERA. 
“ Both the elytra, or wing-cases, and the posterior part of the thorax, are of a fine 
delicate green ; the anterior part of the thorax yellowish brown ; with the head and 
body still paler. The wing-cases, as usual in this tribe, bear no very distant resem- 
blance to the leaves of certain plants, not only in colour, but also in the outline, and 
still more so in the conformation of the nerves which arise and branch off towards the 
extremities, exactly in the same manner as the nerves arise, and ramify, from the mid- 
rib in the leaves of the far greater number of plants. One peculiarity in the structure 
of the elytra in our new species deserves remark : the scutel, or rather that portion of 
the wing-case on the left side that folds over the back when the creature is at rest, is of 
a much stronger texture than any other part of the insect, except the thorax, and 
serves as an external covering or defence to the corresponding lobe of the other wing- 
case, which is of a more delicate nature, consisting only of a thin and pellucid mem- 
brane, the surface of which is hyaline or glassy. The wings are remarkably tender, of 
a whitish colour, and semitransparent.” — Donovan. 
PHYLLOPHORA CITRIFOLIA. 
Plate XIII. fig. 2. 
Species. Phyllophora Citrifolia : thorace tetragono, angulis crenatis ; tegminibus viridibus, 
folium lauri referentibus. Long, alis clausis, unc. 3. 
Phyllophora : with the thorax quadrangular, crenated at the angles ; wing-covers 
green like a laurel leaf. Length, with the wings closed, 3 inches. 
Syn. Gryllus citrifolius, Linnaeus , Mus. Reg. Ulr. p. 125. Syst. Nat. II. 695. Fabricius, 
Ent. Syst. t. 2. p. 33, (Locusta c.) De Geer Mem. vol. 3, pi. 33, f. 3. Serville, 
Rev. Orth. p. 44. Steirodon c.) 
Habitat. “ In Indiis,” ( Linnaeus .) Surinam, (Dc Geer.) Cayenne, (Serville.) 
Donovan states that he received it with the preceding insect from Amboyna. 
