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ORTHOPTERA. 
in India and appear to increase slowly. The Conocephali that live in 
grass are perhaps the most abundant. 
The most recent catalogue of the family is Kirby’s in Volume II 
of “Synonymic Catalogue of the Orthoptera” (1907). Following Brun¬ 
ner he divides the family into 24 sub-families half of which are unknown 
in “India” or known from single genera only, while four only contain the 
majority of our species. A total of 205 species is enumerated from India, 
Burmah and Ceylon, though the family is extremely little known in 
India and many species remain to be found. In this as in other Orthop¬ 
terous families, the number of tropical forms far exceeds the Himalayan 
and pahearctic, though in this family more than others the vast major¬ 
ity are forest species and are found but rarely in the cultivated plains. 
The literature of Indian forms is given by Kirby ; the works of Brunner, 
Bolivar, Redtenbacher, Saussure are the most important. The distri¬ 
bution of species is as follows :—Stenopelmatince 5, Rhaphidophorince 3, 
Gryllacrince 40, Decticince 1, Scyince 1, Conocephalince 13, Agrceciince 
10, Xiphidiince 8, Listrocebince 6, Eumegalodontince 1, Prophalangop- 
since 1, Psendophyllince 45, Mecophodince 2, Phyllophorince 7, Phane- 
ropterince 57. 
Stenopelmatince. Oryctopus includes two species found in burrows 
in a river bank near Trichinopoly by the Professors of St. Joseph’s Col¬ 
lege. The male has rudiments of tegmina and wings, well developed 
eyes and tarsal claws; the female has quite small eye spots, the antennae 
are very small or absent, the tarsal claws rudimentary, the ovipositor 
absent and the insect is 
wholly apterous. Both 
sexes were found to¬ 
gether in the burrow. 
Two species are des¬ 
cribed, 0. Bolivari , 
Brunn. and 0. prodi- 
giosus, Bol. (fig. 32). 
We figure the female 
from Bolivar (Ann. 
Soc. Ent. France, 1899, 
784). 
