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The same work also contains a list of the Orthoptera collected 

 by Dr. A. S. Packard in Colorado and the neighbouring territories 

 during the summer of 1875, consisting of Iwenty-nine species, of 

 which seven are new. Four new genera are also indicated. 



Descriptions of twenty-three new species of ForJiculidcB are 

 given by Mr. S. H. Scudder, in the Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, 

 (vol. xviii.). The same author has also published in this volume a 

 series of critical and historical notes on the ForficularicB, including 

 descriptions of new generic forms and an alphabetical synonymical 

 list of the described genera, and another alphabetical list of the 

 described species, with occasional brief notes; the species not being 

 arranged in a single alphabetical series with a reference to their 

 respective genera, but the species belonging to each genus are 

 placed alphabetically under each genus. 



' Melanges Orthopterologiques,' fasc. V., Gryllides, by M. H. de 

 Saussure, form part of the memoirs of the Societe de Physique 

 et d'Hist. Nat. de Geneve (torn, xxv., 1877). The present part of 

 this valuable work is devoted to the family of the crickets, to which 

 the name of Gryllid(B is applied, and which are divided into six 

 tribes: — 1. Gryllotalpii, including the Tridactylites ; 2. Myrrne- 

 cophilii ; 3. Gryllii ; 4. CEcanthii ; 5. Trigonidii and Eniopterii. 

 The genera and species are described with the accustomed skill of 

 the author, and the plates are overflowing with generic details of 

 these little studied but very curious insects. 



Descriptions of twenty-one new species of Orthoptera belonging 

 to the family of the Locusts [Acriidiodea, Burm.) from Senegal, 

 including several new genera, are described by Krauss, in the 

 Proceedings of the Imp. Acad. Sci., Vienna, 21 June, 1877. 



In his ' Systema Mantodeorum, Essai d'une systematisation 

 nouvelle des Mantodees' (Stockholm, 1877, 8vo, ninety-one pages 

 and one plate), Dr. Stal has introduced a new element in 

 the primary distribution of the genera of Mantida (which he 

 divides into six subfamilies, Amorphoscelidce, EremophilidcB, Man- 

 tides, VatidcB, Harpagid(B and Empusida), founded chiefly upon 

 denticulation of the anterior tibiae and veining of the wings. A 

 great number of new genera and species, especially from the 

 collection of M. Brunner de Wattenwyl, are described in this 

 memoir. 



Descriptions ot two new genera of Mantidne from India, and a 

 note on the femoral brushes of the Mantida, by Mr. Wood-Mason, 



