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ants of Australia in the Godeffroy Museum at Hamburg, by 

 Dr. Gustav Mayr, appears in the ' Journal ' of that Museum, 

 vol. xii. p. 56, containing fifty entirely new, in addition to the 

 numerous species previously described by Smith, Lowne, Mayr, 

 and other earlier writers. 



Orthoptera. 



In the ' Ofversigt af Kongl. Vetensk. Akad. forhandlingar ' of 

 Stockholm, for 187G, we find an extended memoir by Herr C. 

 Stal, entitled "Bidrag till Sodra Afrika's Orthopter fauna." With 

 the single exception of a new species of Maxentius from the 

 neighbourhood of the Cape of Good Hope, the whole of the 

 species described in this memoir, of nearly fifty pages, are from 

 Damara Land and Ovambo, and belonging to all the great 

 divisions of the order. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder has continued his contributions to the 

 knowledge of the Orthoptera in the ' Memoirs ' and ' Proceedings' 

 of the Natural History Society of Boston, U. S. Four decades 

 of his " Century of New Forms " have recently appeared, the 

 last (sixth) decade being entitled " Critical and Historical 

 Notes on Forficularise," including descriptions of new generic 

 forms, and an alphabetical synonymical list of the described 

 species, which extends over fifty pages. He has also published, 

 in the same work, " Notes on the Orthoptera of Northern Peru," 

 with descriptions of fort3'^-five species, including several new 

 genera ; and " Spharagemon," a genus of OEdipodidse, and its 

 species ; likewise a revision of Eneoptolophus and Tragocephala, 

 two American genera of CEdipodidre (Proc. Boston Soc. vol. xvii. 

 p. 478). 



Neuroptera. 

 Dr. F. Brauer (who has, I believe, succeeded Dr. Redtenbacher 

 as Director of the Entomological Museum of Vienna) has pub- 

 lished a 'List of the European Neuroptera' (including those of 

 Northern and Central Asia, Northern Africfi, Syria, d'c), and 

 comprising the whole of the species in the Linnean sense. The 

 catalogue comprises about 1000 named species (but a number of 

 these are evident synonyms), of these there are about 100 actual 

 species of dragonflies. 



