Plate XLI. fig. 3.
ORDER: Orthoptera. SECTION: Saltatoria. FAMILY: Gryllidæ (Locustaires,
_Latr. &c._)
GENUS. LOCUSTA. Gryllus (Locusta), _Linn._ Acrydium, _Latr._ SUBGENUS:
Rutidoderes, _Westw._
LOCUSTA (RUTIDODERES) CENTURIO. Pallidè olivaceo-fulvescens, elytris
nigro numerosè punctatis, alis sanguineis margine nigro et interno nigro
tesselatis. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 3 lin.)
SYN. Gryllus Centurio, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2.
HABITAT: The Bay of Honduras, America.
Head dusky olive brown. Antennæ yellow, the tips black. Eyes red brown.
Thorax olive brown, having a sharp indented ridge on the top, and one on
each side; that on the top being black. Abdomen dark brown. Tegmina pale
olive, spotted all over with darker spots of various shapes. Wings
scarlet; the edges, except the abdominal, black; which, at the tips, and
along the external edges, forms a kind of lattice work, breaking in upon
the black division. Legs yellowish brown, the hinder tibiæ being spinose;
tarsi with a cup-like pulvillus between the claws.
Gryllus reticulatus (Fabr. sp. Ins. 1. p. 362. No. 7.) figured by Donovan
in his Insects of India, Pl. 12. Fig. 1., and said to be from Bengal, is
very closely allied to, if indeed it be not identical with, the species
here figured.
{89}LOCUSTA (PHYMATEA) PUNCTATA.
Plate XLI. fig. 4.
ORDER: Orthoptera. SECTION: Saltatoria. FAMILY: Gryllidæ (Locustaires,
_Latr. &c._)
GENUS. LOCUSTA. Gryllus (Locusta), _Linn._ Acrydium, _Latr._ SUBGENUS:
Phymateus, _Thunberg_.
LOCUSTA (PHYMATEA) PUNCTATA. Thorace verrucoso atro, elytris atris flavo
punctatis, alis atris, abdomine rufo annulato. (Long. Corp. cum alis
claus. 2 unc. 9 lin.)
SYN. Gryllus punctatus, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2. _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ 2. 51.
19. _Thunberg Mem. Acad. Imp. St. Petersb. p._ 258. _Stoll. Sauter. pl._
7. b. _f._ 24. A. _Donovan Ins. India_, _pl._ 12. _fig._ 2.
HABITAT: East India.
Antennæ black, and longer than the thorax. Eyes small, round, and red
brown. Head black at top, the middle being yellow; the lower part, with
the mouth, black. Thorax rough and margined, full of spines and
tubercles, both at top and on the sides; the former being black, the
latter yellow. Breast black. Abdomen the same, ringed with red. Tegmina
black, prettily spotted with yellow; the spots next the tips being
smallest. Wings entirely black. Anus red. Legs black; the hinder thighs
being marked on the outside with yellow.