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MR. H. N. RIDLEY ON THE 



INSECT A, excepting Coleoptera. 



By W. F. KiRBY, F.L.S., F.E.S., 

 Assistant in the Zoological Department, British Museum. 



Notwithstanding the comparatively lai'ge proportion of new 

 species in the present collection, it would be a mistake to suppose 

 that very many will ultimately prove to be confined to the island 

 of Feruando Noronha. The greater part belong to Orders of 

 insects which are comparatively little collected or studied, and 

 among which large numbers of conspicuous species remain to be 

 described, even from the best explored tropical countries. 



The few Lepidoptera in the collection were taken at an un- 

 favourable season of the year, and many are worn specimens. 

 They exhibit more decidedly West-Indian affinities than might 

 have been expected. 



I prefix to the paper a full list of all the species obtained, 

 except a few which were w^orn, immature, or too scantily re- 

 presented for satisfactoi'y identification. They are arranged 

 systematically under the orders and principal families to which 

 thev belons:. 



Liiit of Specie.'i ohtained. 



Order ORTHOPTERA. 



FoitFICUl.lD.E. 



1. Pygidicrana notigeraj Stal. 



2. Labidiira riparia, Fall. 



.'5. Auisolabis jaueirensis, Bohrn. 

 4. Antoni, Bohrn. 



Blattuke. 



5. Phyllodromia poststriga, Walk. 

 0. Isehnoptera hicida, Walk, 



7. Periplaneta americana, Linn. 



8. Blatta incommoda, n. sp. 



fl. Leucopha\a surinamensis, Linn. 

 1(1. Eiitlivrraplia pacifica. Coq. 



Gryllid.e. 



11. Seapteriscus abbreviatus, Sciiihl. 



1 2. Gryllus assimilis, Fohr. 

 l.'l - — fortieeps, .S'«/^s.^•. 



14. (EcantliusC?) pallidocinctiis, ii. sp 



Ph.v.noi'Teruj.e. 



1.3. Couocephalus vernalis, u. sp. 



■ — , var. n. frater. 



IG. CEcella (n. g.) furcifera, n. sp. 



17. Meroncidius viridineryis, u. sp. 



Locustidj:. 



18. Stciiupola dorsalis, Thunh. 



