120 tM"'y> 



poor health, togelh(.>r witli advancing age and failing eyesight, had in recent years 

 somewhat limited his output of scientific work, but until a few years ;\go he was 

 one of our most prolific writers upon the Orlhopfera. In tlie sixties and early 

 seventies he produced a series of memorable and voluminous works, chiefly dealing 

 with American forms, more particularly with Mexican Dictyoptera. His " Blattides 

 Americaines " (1864) and " Mantides Americaines " (1867) marked the beginning 

 of the modern epoch in the study of (Jrthoptera. The latter just preceded tlie ap- 

 pearance of the first of Brunner von Waftcnwyl's series of i\ionogra]5hs, and un- 

 fortunately a great part of the lattcr's work on Cockroaches coincided with de 

 Saussure's treatise. Then came the " Melanges Orthopterologiques ;" parts I to IV 

 deal chiefly with American Dictyoptera, but fascicules V and VI, which form to- 

 gether a very stout quarto volume, are an exhaustive Monograph of the Crickets 

 which has not yet been rivalled, and must remain for a long time the standard 

 treatise on this sub-Order. In the eighties we have the " Prodromus Qidipodiorum " 

 (1888) and the " Additamenta'' thereto which shortly followed, which form the 

 standard and only work upon this Family. Ir'oon there came the Monograph of the 

 Pamphagidse, together with a study of Hemimerus, for which isolated form the 

 author established a new order of insects with the name Diptoglossata, but in this 

 case the learned and experienced entomologist was misled by a faulty preparation. 

 In later years came a series of small brochures dealing with revisions of various 

 Blattid families, such as the I'aiie.sthidie, Epilampridse, Perisphieridfe, Heteroga- 

 mildm, &c. Then we find him dealing with the enormous material collected for the 

 " Biologia Centrali-Americana," which work alone would entitle the author to a 

 very high position in Entomology ; in this work he was assisted by the collaboration 

 of MM. Pictet and Zehnter. In a similar way he pi-oduceJ an account of the 

 Dictyoftera of Madagascar, published by Grandidier, which was supplemented by 

 a faunistic work on the collections made by Voeltzkow in Madagascar and the 

 neighbouring Archipelago. As recently as 19('3 de Saussure published a small but 

 important work on the Eumastacidse. 



His attention was, however, not confined to the Orthoptera, for his work upon 

 American Wasps is very highly esteemed by Hymenopterists, and his Monographs 

 on the social and solitary Wasps and on the Scoliidie (the latter in collaboration 

 with Sichel) still hold the field as standard works on these groups. He has de- 

 sci'ibed a large number of species from Madagascar, as well as from the results of 

 Fedtschenko's travels in Turkestan (in which he dealt also with the Orthoptera) and 

 the voyage of the Novara. 



In recent years he confined his attention more particularly to the Orthoptera, 

 in connection with which his name will be chiefly remembered, but twenty years 

 ago he was in the front rank of Hymenopterists, and a great deal of his work upon 

 this group was highly original and very valuable.— M. Burr. 



The Hemiptera of Suffolk : by Ciaude Morley, F.E.S. Plymouth : 

 James H. Keys, Pp. i — is, and 1— 3i. 



The above is an excellent list of the Suffolk Hemiptera-JSeteroptera, and 



