Mr. Kirby's Remarks on Orthoptera, 9 



Art. II. Some further Remarks on the Nomenclature of 

 Orthoptera, with a detailed Description of the genus Sca- 

 phura. By the i2ez?.WiLLiAM Kirby, F.R, <^ L.S. 8fc. 



Gentlemen, 



As you were desirous of receiving my remarks on Entomological 

 Nomenclature in time for the last number of your useful Journal, 

 I drew them up in rather more haste than I wished, and the con- 

 sequence has been that I have fallen into a few errors, which I 

 how take an opportunity of setting right. In the first place, in- 

 stead of Mr. MacLeay's tribe of Gryllina^ I ought to have written 

 Locustina, I did not also recollect, not finding it in my Hederic, 

 that there was such a Greek word as Tefrix, but I have since 

 met with it in Aristotle, who gives it as the name of a bird : ** 

 M. Latreille more than once has applied Aristotle's names of 

 birds certainly improperly, to insects, for instance Corydalis, 

 Oenas, &c. 



It did not occur to me when I aUuded to the technical language 

 of anatomy, but I ought certainly to have noticed with honour. 

 Dr. Barclay's Nezo Anatomical Nomenclature^ in which as far as 

 he has gone he has introduced considerable improvement, and it 

 is to be lamented that his avocations have not permitted him to 

 finish whatwas so well begun. 



I beg leave to add a description more in detail of the characters 

 of the genus Scaphura. 



SCAPIIURA K. 



. Lnbrum orbiculatum.* 



MandibulcB corneae, validae, subtrigonse, dorso rotundatae, apice^ 

 dentatae : dentibus tribus primis laniaribus,+ intermedio incisivq- 

 emarginato,^ intimo submolari. || 



Marillce lobo superiori coriaceo, lineari, apice incurvoj§ in- 

 ferior! apice trispinoso ; f spina inferiori longiori. 



** Hist. Animal. 1. vi. c. 1. 



* Plate I. Fig. I.e. + Ibid. Fig. 2. a. t Ibid. b. || Ibid. c. ^ ^^i^' 



Fig. 3. a. 1 Ibid. b. 



