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not ou leaves only, but also on other insects, and on caterpillars as well as 

 flies. (Report for 1S43, p. 160.) Klug once found Locusta viridissima 

 devouring a caterpillar of Sphinx pinastri. 



Hageii (Ent. Zeit. 361) has made the observation in the case of two 

 Orthoptera, Aeschna grandis and Gryllotalpa vulgaris, that the spinal cord 

 [rachis] consists not of two but of four strings, two upper, and two lower, 

 the latter alone forming ganglions, the former simple throughout. This 

 agrees exactly with the researches of Newport, who, in the separation of 

 the upper and lower cords, recognizes the division between the nerves of 

 sensation and those of motion. (Report for 1843, p. 117.) 



Ziinmermanu's explanation (Wiegm. Arch. Yr. 9, i, p. 390) of his state- 

 ment about Mantis Carolina devouring Amphibia, has been copied into the 

 'Annals of Nat. Hist.' (xiv, 78), but in a form so abridged that the most ma- 

 terial points in this communication have been overlooked, in particular the 

 admission that the greatest part of the lizard, given as food to his Mantis, as 

 well as of the frogs, toads, caterpillars, and locusts, remained uncousumed, 

 although none of them escaped alive. In Zimmermaun's first published 

 communication it was expressed : " It (the Mantis) consumed daily some 

 dozen of flies, sometimes also great locusts, and some young frogs ; and 

 even a lizard of the striped sort three times its own length." (See Burm. 

 Handb. Ent. ii, 538). It was this which I regarded as a joke (Rep. 1838, 

 p. 387), and which Zimmcrmauu, in his last communication, has in effect 

 retracted. 



SPECTRA. V. Charpentier (Orthopt. pi. 55) gives a very accurate 

 figure of Diapherodes gibbosa, Burin., from the specimen in the Berlin 

 Museum, and (pi. 56, 57) figures of Podacanthus vnicolor and Bacillus 

 australis, both from New Holland . 



A learned essay by the same, Observations on Lichten- 

 stein's treatise on the species of Mantis, in the Transactions 

 of the Linnsean Society of London, vol. vi, 1802, is inserted 

 iu Germar's Zeitschrift (v, p. 272-311.) 



LOCTJSTARI.E. Westwood (Arcan. Ent. pi. 70) has figured two extra- 

 ordinary species of Phaneroptera with foliaceous or spinous processes of the 

 hind thighs, Ph. alipes, from Columbia, and Ph. hystrix, from Mexico. 



ACHETJE. Eieber (Entom. Monogr. p. 126, pi. 10, f. 11) has added to 

 Nemobius another European species, N.frontalis, new species, inhabiting 

 Bohemia and Austria. 



ACRIDII. Charpentier (Orth. pi. 58, 59) has figured a new genus, 

 Coryphistes, differing from Opsomala by the thick body and the thick putty 

 forehead, from Xiphocera by the cylindrical form, the shape of the wings, 

 the short legs, and minute prickles of the hind shanks. Peculiar to New 



