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families, and Bibionoidea with five families), and Brachycera (Taban- 

 oidea with six families, Bombylioidea with three, Asiloidea with five, 

 and Phoroidea with two families). The Cyclorhapha are divided into 

 two superfamilies, Syrphoidea (with four families) and Muscoidea 

 (Calypteratfe with six, and Acalypterae with nineteen families). 



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S. H. ScuDDEK. Pink Grasshoppers. (1901 Entomological News, xii. 

 pp. 129-131, Plate (coloured) vi.) 



Many of the Grasshoppers with elongate antennae occur in two 

 colour-forms, either leaf-green or dead-leaf brown, there being no 

 structural differences noticeable. Very rarely (less than a dozen 

 times) they have been found of a delicate violet or pink colour, and 

 these are considered by Mr. Scudder to be " sports." Two examples 

 of AmhUjcorijplia oblonyi folia from Massachusetts are figured ; the 

 female is a delicate coral-red colour, while the male is tinged with 

 orange. The eyes are green in both. The causes of this remarkable 

 colouring are quite unknown, and Mr. Scudder's specimens were 

 healthy and behaved quite normally. 



E. D. Ball records under the varietal name oi pccta a pink form of 

 the green Macropsis lata, Uhler (1900 ' Psyche,' p. 130). 



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Among recent papers of general interest may also be mentioned : — 



Diptera. — A curious case of gynandromorphism is recorded in 

 Hilara ivheeleri, Melander, from Wyoming, U.S.A. The species of 

 Hilara mostly exhibit striking sexual dimorphism ; for example, the 

 first segment of the anterior tarsi is greatly enlarged in the male, but 

 of normal shape in the female, this character varying considerably 

 among the various species. The individual in question has the 

 abdominal styles of the female, but the enlarged legs of the male. 

 It is remarkable that in the same locality and at the same time a 

 specimen of Dilophus tibialis, Loew, was taken which possessed an 

 anteuuary appendage arising from the right anterior coxa. (A. L. 

 Melander in ' Psyche,' 1901, pp. 213-5 ; 2 figs.) 



FihijHclwta. — L). VON Schlechtendal : Tra)im tioijlodytes, Heyden, a 

 singular Aphid (Zeitschr. fiir Entom. vi. pp. 245-55 ; 14 figs.). 



Lepidoptera. — C. Schroder : Experiments on the Transference of 

 Characters in the Larval State, for ex. in Tephroclystia vulyata (t. c, 

 255-8 ; 2 figs.). 



Neuroptera. — L. Kathariner : On the Biology of Perla maxima, 

 Scop. (t.c. 258-60; fig.). 



Lepidoptera. — C. Obrthiir : Observations upon the Lepidoptera of 

 the English Fauna (Feuille jeunes naturalistes, pp. 12-17). We pro- 

 pose to consider this at greater length in our next number. 



Lepidoptera. — E. Mory: On some New Swiss Hybrids of the Genus 

 Deilephila (M. T. Schweiz. Entomol. Gesellsch. x. pp. 333-60 ; plate). 



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