Plate XLIII. fig. 1.
ORDER: Orthoptera. SECTION: Saltatoria. FAMILY: Achetidæ.
GENUS. ACHETA, _Fabr._ Gryllus, _Latr._ SUBGENUS: Schizodactylus,
_Brullé_.
ACHETA (SCHIZODACTYLA) MONSTROSA. Elytris alisque caudatis convolutis,
corpore luteo-fusco punctis nigris. (Long. Corp. 1 unc. 9 lin.)
SYN. Gryllus monstrosus, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2. _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ 2.
29. 2. (Acheta m.)
Schizodactylus monstrosus, _Aud. & Brullé Hist. Nat. Ins. tom_. ix. _s.
g._ 24. _Donovan Ins. India_, _pl._ 12. _fig._ 3.
HABITAT: India (_Fabricius_).
Antennæ considerably longer than the body, filiform. Mouth furnished with
strong jaws, and four palpi; two of which are very long. General colour
dusky olive brown. Wings and tegmina extending {91}as far beyond the body
as its own length, and curling in a most singular manner, being very
curiously folded together. Body with two short tails placed at its
extremity. Legs longer than usual with insects of this kind; each of the
thighs being furnished with spines, and also the tips of the tibiæ. Tarsi
four-pointed, besides the claws; those of the fore and middle legs having
on each side two small appendages like flaps. Hinder tarsi furnished on
each side with five of these flaps, some of which appear moveable, others
fixed, as represented in the plate.