teroid insects as being of more than ordinal. The present 
writer, as a result of study of the group, shares this opinion. 
In a recent paper he has given his views in a synoptical 
key or table compiled from several sources. This table is 
presented herewith and shows the relationships of the seve- 
ral groups of insects wich he would include under the term 
« orthopteroid insects ». 
BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN Museum OF NATURAL 
History — Vol. XXXV. 1916 — New York. 
Wheeler, Whilliam Morton: Ants collected in British 
Guiana by the Expedition of the American Museum of the 
Natural History during 1911. (Contribution from the Ento- 
mological Laboratory of the Bussey Institution, Havard Uni- 
versity, n. 105) LI. s. ce pp. 15-22: Townsend, Charles H. 
T.— New and noteworthy Brasilian Muscoidea collected by 
Herbert H. Smith. 
« During the eighties of the past century Mr. Her- 
bert H. Smith made rather an extensive collection of Dip- 
tera in Brasil, mainly in the northern part of that coun- 
try. The American Museum of Natural History has acquir- 
ed by purchase, through Dr. 5. W. Williston, moss of this 
collection, aud bas placed in the hands of the writer for 
study the material in the muscoid groups. The present is 
the first of a series of papers giving results of this study. 
In aldition to the new forms, a record is presented of the 
more noteworthy described forms secured. 
The greater part of the material is labeled simply 
« Chapada»... properly written Santa Anna da Chapada, 
is a small village near Cuyaba, on the headwaters of the 
Paraguay River, in the Proviuce of Matto Grosso ». 
ANNALS OF THE CARNEGIE Museum, vol. VIII, 1913, 
pp. 423-506. Brunner Lawrence. — South American Lo- 
eusts ( Acridoidea ) II. 
« The present paper is based chiefly on a rather ex- 
tensive collection of these insects made by J. Steinbach in 
eastern Bolivia and south-western Brasil, a region but little 
explored heretofore. Other material, however, is also at 
hand included that was taken by J. D. Haseman and one or 
two other collections in the employ of the Carnegie Mu- 
seum... As in the former reports (on South American 
Tetrigidæ, 1. c. vol. VII. Notes on Tropical American, 
Tettigonoidea 1. e. vol. IX and South American Crickets, 
ete. 1. e. vol. X.— the relator) a number of syno ptical 
tables of genera and species are included where itis thought 
they will materially aid the student in the recognition of 
these insects. » 
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