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ORTHOPTEROUS INSECTS. 
belongs to the family of grasshoppers with long-antennse {GrijUiU, 
Leach), although differing from all the known species of that family 
in several particulars, more especially in the entire want of the 
cux’ious operculum near the base of the anterior tibise, and the large 
compressed form of the basal joint of the antennae, which is all that 
remains of those organs in the specimen before us. From its 
analogical relations, it may be named— 
PITASMODES RANATRIFORMIS, West. (Pi^te 63, fig. 4.) 
Char. Gen. Corpus valde elongatum depressum parallelum abdomine sensim in medio 
pauUo latiori. Caput horizoutale, clypeo labroque magnis discretis. Palpi elongati. Labium 
e lobis duobus membranaceis spinisquo duabus intermediia formatum. Antennae articulo 
basali longo comprcseo. Protborax elongatus subdeprcssus subtus inermis: ineso-et 
ineta-tborax breves subtus ctiam inermes linea lougiUulina mediana impressa (fig. 4 a). 
Abdomen thorace duplo longius ad apicem sensim attenuatum e segmeutis novem dis- 
tinctis formatum. Oviductiis fere abdominis longitudine recta attenuata, e valvulis 
duobus cornels constans, singulo valvulo e duabus pariibus formate (fig. 4 bj apex seg¬ 
ment! noiii subtus visus ; fig. 4 c, apex segment! noni abdominis laterabteryisus cum 
squama couica dorsali atyloque laterali et basi oviductus : fig. 4 dy apex valvuli e duabus 
partibus constans, aupera ad apicem cmarginata, infera acuta et subtus tuberculo instructa). 
Pedes 4 antici longitudine jequales, graciles, tibiae anticse operculo nullo instructae. Tarsi 
4-articulati pUosi articulo pcnultimo cordato. Teguiina nulla.. Alse nuUm. Mas latet. 
Char. Spec. P- viridis, loevia lateribus corporis linea brunnea notatis, tibiis anticis veisus 
basin macula parva fusca. 
Long. corp. unc. 2j. Oviductus, ttne. 1^. 
Habitat. King George’s Sound, Nov- Holl, In Mus. Brit. 
The nearest approach to the last-described insect amongst the 
species of the family GryllidcBy Leach (Locustaires Serville,) is made 
Prochilus Australis of Brulle,^ 
described more in detail by M. Serville.f As no figure of this 
insect has hitherto appeared,]: and as the male alone has been 
tlescribed, I have represented the female in plate 63, fig. 3. and 
which agrees in general character with, the male, w^hich has the 
abdomen truncate at the tip. I have possessed this insect many 
years ; and Mr. Hope also possesses three specimens—one from 
the Haworthian Collection. Messrs. Brull^ and Serville do not 
speak of the red base of the hind wdngs; and the latter states that 
the head is longer than the prothorax, and that the stridulant 
organ of the males is transparent, which do not agree with the 
specimens before me ; although they correspond in every other 
respect with the description given by M. Serville. 
The plant represented in the plate is Physalis edulis, a native of 
Peru and Chili, but cultivated at the Cape of Good Hope, and in 
the English Settlements in New South Wales, where it is known 
under the name of the Cape Gooseberry, 
* Hist, Nat. dc8 Ins., Ortbopt-et Hemipt., p. 135. 
t Hi^t, Nat. Ortbopt., p. 384. 
X Brulle and Serville refer to a figure of this insect, » Plate 11, fig. 1, MMe,” but no such 
has hitherto heen published. 
