180 Journal Nfav York Entomological Society. [Voi. xii. 



The tend of the face of the table land is northwest and southeast. 

 The country to the southwest and east is generally level, broken by 

 low hills rising abruptly from the plains, which extend to the level 

 cattle breeding lands of the Missions, which in turn gives place to 

 the low swamp land of the southwest corner of Paraguay, which, 

 with the exception of a narrow fringe along the rivers Paraguay and 

 Alto Parana, is given over to the anaconda and tiger (jaguar). I was 

 several months down there collecting water birds but do not have any 

 very pleasant recollections of the district. Periodical floods extend 

 for leagues inland, filling up the swamps which in turn extend for 

 miles ; patches of forest from a few hundred feet to a mile in diameter 

 occupy any land rising a few feet above the swamp. A few wandering 

 tribes roam the large forests of the Alta Parana but the rest is a deso- 

 late waste. 



" I do not find that the table land mentioned above bears a different 

 fauna than that of the low lands, nearly all specimens taken by my col- 

 lecting boys on the higher lands being duplicated by others from the 

 plains. 



"The winter is now about commencing and the frost during the 

 months of June and July is somewhat severe, with the result that in- 

 sects are correspondingly scarce. I therefore do but little collecting 

 during the winter months but turn my attentions to bird and mammal 

 skinning." 



The total number of non-saltatorial specimens sent in by Mr. 

 Foster is 105, comprising 27 species: 3 Forficulidse, 12 Blattidse, 7 

 Mantidae and 5 Phasmidae. 



Family FORFICULID.E. 

 Anisolabis azteca Dohrn. 



Forcinella azteca Dohrn, Stett. Ent. Zeit., xxiii, 226, 1862. 



Anisolabis azteca Scudd., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xviii, 302, 1876. 



Anisolabis afttennata Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc, xxiii, 517, 1891. 



Anisolabis bormansi Scudd., Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xxv, 5, pi. i, fig. 1, 1893. 



Anisolabis azteca Bormans, Das Tierr. , ii, 49, 1900. 



Two males without date. These specimens are exactly similar to 

 the type of bormansi except that the forceps are strongly incurved 

 apically, as is often the case with male specimens, and the antennae 

 have segments 11 and 12 pale in one while in the other the right an- 

 tenna has segments 12 and 13 pale and the left one segments 13 and 

 14. Most species with certain ones of the antennal segments pallid 



