June, '05] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 173 



Notes on a Small Collection of Orthoptera from the 



Lesser Antilles, with the Description of a New 



Species of Orphulella. 



BY JAMES A. G. REHN. 



(Plate VIII.) 



The collection from which the following notes were made 

 was transmitted to the author by Mr. H. A. Ballon, Entomo- 

 logist of the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the Brit- 

 ish West Indies. The bulk of the material was presented to 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, a small 

 number of uniques and species confused under one number 

 being returned to the Department. 



With few exceptions the following records are the first from 

 the islands represented, several South American forms being 

 here recorded from the West Indies for the first. 



On comparison with the lists of St. Vincent and Grenada 

 Orthoptera published by Brunner and Redtenbacher,* the 

 number of species is found to be much less as the material 

 is much less extensive, twenty-eight in number, while the St. 

 Vincent and Grenada papers list eighty-two, but of the twenty- 

 eight forms here treated, thirteen are not contained in the two 

 previous papers. 



Probably the most striking fact noticed in studying this 

 collection is that regarding the distribution of the tw T o species of 

 Orphulella here treated. The widely distributed O. pnnctata 

 is represented by specimens from Dominica and St. Lucia, 

 having also been recorded from Grenada, St. Vincent and 

 Trinidad, while on Barbados it is apparently replaced by a 

 quite distinct species, which, judging from the amount of 

 material examined, is as abundant as O. punctata is in the locali- 

 ties where found. 



Family FORFICULID^. 



ANISOLABIS Fieber. 

 Anisolabis maritima (Gen6). 



Barbados. September 13, 1901. (In seaweed ; H. M. L,e- 



* Proc. Zool. Soc., London, 1892, pp. 196-221 ; 1893, pp. 599-611. 



