PSYCHE, 



[January i8g8. 



BRUNNER'S GENUS METALEPTEA. 



LiNNE, Sjst. nat., ed. xii, I, ii, 692 (1767), 

 placed in Acrida (as a division of Grjllus) 

 the species nasutus, turritus, and brevicornis. 

 Fabricius, Syst. entom., 279 ('1775) substi- 

 tuted Truxalis (as a distinct genus) for 

 Acrida, placing in it the species nasutus 

 (with turritus as variety) and brevicornis, 

 the identical species and those only- employed 

 by Linne. Truxalis alone came into general 

 use; but Stal, Rec. Orthopt., i (1873), first 

 separated the above species into distinct 

 genera, placing in Acrida among others the 

 species turrita (96) and nasuta (99) and in 

 Tryxalis the single species brevicornis (104). 

 Brunner (Rev. syst. Orthopt. 118, 1893) uses 

 Tryxalis for the species placed by Linnfi and 

 Stal in Acrida, and proposes Metaleptea for 

 brevicornis, but Stal was first on the ground, 

 and Brunner's name must fall as superfluous. 



This conclusion was also reached by McNeil 

 in his recent Revision of the Tryxalinae (see 

 Proc. Dav. acad. nat. sc, vi, 211.) 



5. H. Scudder. 



AMOSIA PLEXIPPUS IN AUSTRALIA. 



The South Australian Register of Sept. 

 23, 1897, contains some notes from the ento- 

 mologist's department of the South Austra- 

 lian museum which announce, among other 

 things, the gift of" the naturalized American 

 butterfly, Danais erippus, whose caterpillar 

 or larvafeedsexclusivelyon plants ot the fami- 

 ly Asclepiadae, which were, however, origi- 

 nally absent from this part of Australia. 

 Its establishment here, therefore, depends 

 mainly upon that of a Cape plant, the ' cotton 

 bush' (Gomphocarpum fruticosum). Both 

 plant and butterfly are now widely distributed 

 in South Australia. " 



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