Head dark dirty green. Antennæ ——? Thorax dirty green and smooth, without any tubercles. Tegmina dark green, and opake. Wings thin and blue; the tips being much darker. Abdomen dark green. Legs the same, the hinder femora striped on the outside with yellow and light green, but on the inside entirely yellow; the tips being black.
LOCUSTA (RUTIDODERES) MILES.
Plate [XLII]. fig. 2.
Order: Orthoptera. Section: Saltatoria. Family: Gryllidæ (Locustaires), Latr. &c.
Genus. Locusta. Gryllus (Locusta), Linn. &c. Acrydium, Latr. Subgenus: Rutidoderes, Westw.
Locusta (Rutidoderes) Miles. Fusca, capitis lineis duabus marginalibus margineque postico thoracis flavis, elytris brunneis, alis nigris maculis duabus magnis sanguineis. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 9 lin.)
Syn. Gryllus Miles, Drury, App. vol. 2.
Habitat: Bay of Honduras, America.
Head green. Face striped on each side with yellow. Antennæ black. Thorax dark green; posterior edges yellow. Abdomen black, but when the insect was living, probably green. Tegmina entirely red brown. Wings black, with a scarlet patch near the tips, running from the anterior almost to the posterior edges; another considerable part of the wings is likewise scarlet, running from the body to the middle, and from thence to the abdominal corners; the posterior and anterior edges being black. Legs dark green, almost black, and variously spotted with yellow: the fore and middle ones having a spot on each femur and tibia, the hinder ones having three on each femur, and two on each tibia.