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ORTHOPTERA. 
and shoots of plants which it eats or draws into its burrow. The life 
history occupies one year, the winged adults being found from late April 
to September, only nymphs being found in the cold weather. It has been 
successfully reared in the Pusa insectary on a diet of green lucerne and 
other plants. This species is the prey of Sphex lohatus the metallic green 
digger wasp (see Sphegidce ). Liogryllus bimaculatus , deG. is black, with 
an orange spot at the base of each tegmen. It appears to occur through¬ 
out India, and is stated to be found throughout the East. It has been 
found in Khandesh to cut through the stems of potato plants at soil 
level. (Ind. Mus. Notes, Vol. Ill, p. 97 .) 
Gryllodes melanocephalus, Serv. (fig. 41) is reported as injurious to 
crops and has been found in some number in parts of the Punjab. It is a 
Fig. 41— Gryllodes melanocephalus. 
(I. M. N.) 
surface-burrowing species, Jiving in the fields and not making deep bur¬ 
rows. There are a large number of species to be found in the plains and 
an investigation of the Indian species is much to be desired. 
Kirby (Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera, Vol. II, 1906), records 
Pctranemobius 1, Nemobius 4, Brachytrypes 3, Gymnogryllus 3, Gryllus 12. 
Gryllodes 6, Cophogryllus 2, Seapsipedus 2, Homaloblemmus 1, Loxoblem- 
musl,Landrena 1, as genera represented in India, apart from Himalaya, 
Ceylon and Burmah. 
