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Buczeri or THE Cour. ZooL. Mus. at Hav. CoLL. von. LX 
Mann. William M. The aunts of Brazil. 
» 
O autor cita 223 especies de formigas collecionadas 
pela Expedição Stanford, em 1911, nos estados do Norte do 
Brazil entre as quaes 24 novas e 22 novas sub-especies resp. 
variedades — isto é um bello resultado em vista do curto 
prazo da expedição. Para podermos fazer uma comparação 
convém lembrar que conhec:mos até hoje, do Estado de São 
Paulo, 315 especies de formigas. O trabalho vem acompa- 
nhado por 7 estampas illustradas. São de valor especial 
as tres tabellas curtas para a determinação de Plathythyrea, 
Dolichoderus e Dendromyrmex 
ANNALS OF THE CARNEGIE Museum, VOL. IX, 1915 pr. 284-404 
Brunner, Lawrence: Notes on Tropical American Tettigo- 
noidea. ( Locustodea ). «The present paper is based on 
several rather extensive et o ot Orthopteroid insects. 
The majority of the material, however, comes from Brazil. . ye 
The present paper. . . contains deseriptions of a number of 
new genera and species. The types 1efered to in connect- 
ion of the Carnegie Museum. Sub-order Tettigonoidea 
( Locustodea ). Next in numbers and importance to the lo- 
custs or short>horned, are the longhorned grasshoppers. In 
some of the recent literature dealing with orthopteroid in- 
sects the authors have shown a tendency toward considering 
the group of more than crdinal value, some of them even 
going so far as to suggest a sub- class comprising several 
distinct orders and suborders. Two of these writers, Karny 
and Handlirsch, agree ia calling each of the three so- called 
families, which taken together bave been termed the « sal- 
tatorial orthoptera », as sub-orders, and the subfamilies, fa- 
milies. To this latter view I myself am inclined to agree, 
since by so considering them the coufusion which has here- 
tofore existid as to their afiinities is partially remedied. 
The different members of this group vary among them- 
selves to a much greater degree than do the Locustoidea 
( Acridoidea ), altough the latter suborder contains a consi- 
ae larger number of forms» ( p. 284, 1. s. c., vol. X, 
pp. 344- 421 ). 
Brunner, Lawrence: South American Crickets. Gry- 
lotalpoidea, and Achetoidea. «... The present paper con- 
tains descriptions of a number of apparently new forms. 
While not presenting a complete syn Ge of the crickets of 
the South America, I have included a number of Synopti- 
eal tables for the separation of families, genera, and in 
some instances of species as well. 
There has been a tendency among systematic ento- 
mologists during the past few years to consider the orthop- 
