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THE ORTHOPTERA OF THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. 
We have received from Mr. 8. H. Scudder a paper with the above title 
extracted from Vol. xxv of the Bulletins of the Museum of Comparative 
Zoology, Harvard College. The author reviews all previous accounts of 
Orthoptera from these Islands and reports the results of his own exam- 
ination of material recently collected by the Fish Commission Expedi- 
tions. Specimens of all but one of the species ever reported have been 
examined. Excluding the Cockroaches, but fifteen species have been 
found upon these Islands and all are distinctly South and Central 
American in their affinities, five being apterous or subapterous forms. 
This large proportion of forms incapable of flightis accounted for in Mr. 
Scudder’s mind by the supposition that the Galapagos are of very recent 
origin and have obtained their present Orthopterous fauna by chance 
advent of pregnant females as waifs from the nearest shore or the shore 
which the currents of the ocean make practically the nearest. The paper 
includes the description of a new species of Earwig, a new genus and 
two new species of Mantide, three new genera and three new species 
of Acridiidz, one new genus and two new species of Locustide and 
one new species of Gryllide. The new forms are illustrated upon 
three well-executed lithographic plates. 
OBITUARY. 
Dr. Herman August Hagen, professor of entomology in Harvard Uni- 
versity and curator of the insect collection of the Museum of Compar- 
ative Zoology at Cambridge, died November 9, at the age of 76. Dr. 
Hagan was a well-known German entomologist residing in Kénigsberg, 
when, in 1868, he was invited by Louis Agassiz to come to Cambridge 
as assistant in entomology. His residence in this country has since 
that time been continuous. He was probably the most learned student 
of the Neuroptera that the world has seen, but was also a general ento- 
mologist of wide attainments. His familiarity with the literature of 
entomology was extraordinary, and his Bibliotheca Entomologica, pub- 
lished in 1866, has always been the first requisite on the working table 
of entomologists of all countries. A long and painful illness had inea- 
pacitated Dr. Hagen from work for the past two years, and the duties 
of the position have of late been performed by Mr. Samuel Henshaw, 
who we hope will permanently succeed to the position, as heis in every 
way competent to fill it. 
We have also to record the death of Mr. Wilhelm Juelich, at his 
home in New York City, November 8, 1893, at the age of 54. Mr. — 
Juelich was a native of Germany, but came to this country in his boy- 
hood. He began the collection of Coleoptera before the War, and at 
the time of his decease his cabinet was one of the largest in this order 
in this country. It was particularly rich in the Rhynchophora and in © 
several families of micro-coleoptera. He was a member of the entomo- — 
