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10 dorsally they are placed in an elliptical, slightly raised area divided 
by a groove, so that the larva may almost be said to have feet on its 
back. No spines on joint 13. Shields reduced, the cervical shield large, 
scarcely chitinous except in a number of irregular brown patches; a 
slight linear thickening of the cuticle on the posterior edges of joints 3 
and 4; anal flap large but uncornified. Skin smooth, yellowish white, 
unmarked. Tubercles very small, setae minute. Arrangement normal 
for the Tineoidea without secondary hairs of any kind. On the thorax 
i and ii remotely approximate in pairs, iii very small, iv rather large, v 
below it, vi single on the leg base; on the abdomen i dorsad to ii, remote, 
11 opposite the edge of the spined area, iii above the spiracle, iv and v 
approximate, superposed on the upper subventral fold, vi posteriorly 
on the leg base, vii of three setae on the anterior leg base, two of them 
weak and apparently sometimes absent, viii on the inner side of the leg. 
The Recording Secretary exhibited for Mr. A. N Caudell 
a copy of the first volume of Kirby's Synonymic Catalogue 
of Orthoptera, containing the Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, 
Blattidae, Mantidae, and Phasmidae, and presented for Mr. 
Caudell the following notes: 
KIRBY'S CATALOGUE OF ORTHOPTERA. 
BY A. N. CAUDELL. 
Through the kindness of the author I have just received 
from the British Museum a copy of the first volume of Kirby's 
Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera. This volume contains 
the families Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, 
and Phasmidae. The saltatorial families will appear in a 
second volume. 
The general arrangement of this catalogue is the same as 
that of the Neuroptera, Libellulidae, Lepidoptera Heterocera, 
and Lepidoptera Rhapolocera by the same author. This 
catalogue forms a volume of over 500 pages, is well printed 
and well bound and the reputation of the author as an orthop- 
terist is a guarantee of the excellency of the contents. How- 
ever, as is invariably the case of any undertaking of considerable 
magnitude, there are certain omissions and errors that have 
crept in. I now desire to correct a few points that I believe 
to be erroneous, note a few omissions known to me, as well 
as to offer criticisms on a few points in which I am unable 
to agree with the author. With one or two exceptions the 
