158 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll 



Some Remarks on Kirby^s Synonymic Catalogue of 



Orthoptera, Vol. Ill, with Additional 



Notes on Vols. I and 11. 



By a. N. Caudell, of the Bureau of Entom., U. S. Dept. 

 Agric, Washington, D. C. 



Having reviewed the first two volumes of this excellent 

 work,^ I now wish to present some critical notes on the third 

 volume. Most of the notes here made pertain to North Amer- 

 ican forms. Some miscellaneous notes on volumes I and II, 

 additional to my former review of those two volumes, are 

 appended. 



P. 4. — 'Sir. Kirby has overlooked the fact that Phyllotettix 

 Hancock is a synonym of Choriphylliini Serville.^ That this 

 is true, however, there can be no doubt and the species listed 

 under Phyllotettix by Kirby should be catalogued under 

 Zaphyllonotum Caudell while the genus Phyllotettix and its 

 equivalent Phyllonotus Hancock should be listed in synonymy 

 under Choriphyllum Serville. 



P. 48. — Acrydiiim abhreviatus Morse is listed as a synonym 

 of hancocki. It is really a variety well worthy of a name. The 

 same is true of affinis Hancock and costatus Hancock, which 

 are varieties respectively of crassum Morse and arcnosuni 

 Burmeister. As a matter of fact but few varieties are listed 

 by Kirby other than as synonyms of the species of which they 

 are really varieties. 



P. 50. — Tchnatcttix hurri Hancock is here catalogued as 

 a species of Hedotettix but the describer of the species has 

 shown it to be a synonym of Paratettix scaber.^ 



P. 59 — Here Mr. Kirby has entered a Tcttigidea gracilis 

 Scudder. This seems to be an error as no such species appears 

 to have ever been described, no name gracilis, either new or 

 otherwise, appearing at the reference cited by Kirby. Thus 



^ Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. vii, p. 84-88 (1905) ; Can. Ent., vol. xl. 

 p. 287-292 (1907). 

 ^Caudell, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. xi, p. 113 (1909). 

 'Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 410 (1909). 



