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Described from a single $ in the British Museum, captured by- 

 Mr. W. Drost in a greenhouse at Richmond ; the same collector also 

 presented several specimens of Tachycines asynamorits Adel., and one 

 immature example of Ohoj^ardina importata, all evidently'' taken with 

 the type. There is no doubt, of course, that the new insect has been 

 imported from some exotic country with plants, but it is not possible to 

 tell from what part of the world it exactly came. The group Dolicho- 

 podini is as yet insufficiently studied, and the fact that Gliopardina is 

 most nearly allied to a New Zealand genus is by no means decisive, since 

 further exploration of exotic fauna will undoubtedly^ result in discovery 

 of many more new forms. In Dr. Chopard's opinion, it is not impossible 

 that the new insect is of Oriental origin, as is the case with Tachycines 

 asynamonis, which has been found in hot-houses in Petrograd and after- 

 wards captured wild in China. 



Chopardina is at once distinguished from the common greenhouse 

 grasshopper, Tachycines asynamonis, by the uniform coloration, and 

 especially by the armature of the hind tibiae, which in Tachycines are 

 armed with two rows of very numerous (up to 75) and closely approxi- 

 mated spinules along the upper keels of the tibiae, while in Chopardina 

 the spinules are only 18-20 in number and are widely distant from each 

 other. 



The new insect is, thus, the second of this group which has been 

 found in greenhouses in Europe, the other being Tachycines asynamorus 

 Adel. The latter has been incorrectly recorded many times under the 

 name of Diestrammena marmorata De Haan, a Japanese insect not yet 

 detected in Europe. This mistake has been made by many authors, but 

 it has been explained and corrected recently by V. Boldyrev (Bull. Soc. 

 Entom. Moscou, i, p. 31), M. Burr (Ent. Kec. xxvi, 1914, p. 140), 

 R. Ebner (Centralbl. Bakter., Par. und Infekt., vol. 45, pp. 587, 594), 

 and L. Chopard (Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1914, No. 3, p. 122; Bull. 

 Mus. Hist. Nat., 1914, No. 4, p. 234). The synonymy given in the 

 recently published book on British Orthoptera (p. 98) b}^ W. J. Lucas, 

 who regards T. asynamorus as conspecific with D. marmorata, is, 

 therefore, erroneous. T. asynamorus seems to be not uncommon in hot- 

 houses in England, and undoubtedly breeds there as it does on the 

 Continent and in America. It has been recorded by Dr. Burr (Ent. 

 Rec. XXV, p. 228) from St. Leonards, Sussex, and by Mr. Lucas from 

 Kew Gardens and Ipswich ; and the British Museum collection contains 

 specimens from Hastings (in fern-house), Hounslow, Middlesex (hot- 

 house), Richmond (greenhouse), and S. Kensington ("found in kitchen 

 alive "). 



