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REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



OrTHOPTEREN DKS ]\I.U.AYISCHEN ArCHIPELS, GESAMJIELT VON Pko- 



FEssoR Dr. Kukenthal in den Jahren 1893 und 1894, bearheitet 

 VON Brunner VON Wattenwyl, unter Berucksjchtingung neuer 

 vERWANDTER Species, with five Plates. Frankfurt. 4to. 189 S. — 

 This is one of the works dealing with the zoological material collected 

 by Professor Dr. Kiikenthal in the Moluccas and l^orneo in his memor- 

 able voyage. The author gives a list of the species taken in each 

 locality, and proceeds to describe the novelties, excepting the Phasma- 

 todea, which are omitted, being retained for the monograph of that 

 group which the illustrious orthopterist holds ready. Many other 

 Sfjups are treated monographically, and many revised. Of the genus 

 l'/ii/llf<ilr(iinia no less than thirteen new species are described, 

 figured and fitted into the existing system with a synoptical table. Of 

 Hii'radiUa, nine new species are treated in the same way. A mono- 

 ,<2:raph of Asiatic Mastacidae is included, but is barely complete, and 

 needs the modification given in my work on the Mastacidae, which is 

 not yet published. For instance, I do not doubt that several ento- 

 mologists will disagree with the treatment of the genus Choroetypm. 

 As a basis for classification, he has chosen the " hypertelic " mirrors 

 'Of the pronotum, which, so far from being a stable specific character, 

 appear to vary in the same species. Two allied genera are charac- 

 terised, with three new species. The remarkable genus (Tomphoinasta.K 

 is erected with two new species from Kashmir and Punjaub. A month 

 later in Zubowsky's Avork, Krauss described two others, making 

 a new genus Farerucins, which coincides with Go)nphnma.'<ta.r, and so 

 must fall. It is the only genus of Mastacidae with long antennae, and 

 which occurs in the Palaearctic region. Many new genera and species 

 of Acridiidae are also treated, as also in the Locustodea. To Diaphlehiis, 

 Karsch (Meo/poxlidae), four new species are added and seven new Phijllo- 

 /'//oro. are described. The species figured by Wallace in the " Malay 

 Archipelago" is shown to be Hupi'nnnala vire><cenx, Boisd. (described 

 •also by Serville), and is well figured. The Conocephalid genus 

 IjohoKpis, Redt., is revised. Of the Gryllodea three new species are 

 dassribed, but no new genera. The work is illustrated by fivo splendid 

 platss drawn by Professor Redtenbacher, figuring the majority of the 

 new species described, — M. B. 



Uebersicht der Lepidopteren- Fauna des Grossherzogtums 

 Baden und der Anstossenden Lander, von Carl Reutti, 2nd edition. 

 [Published by Gebriider Borntraeger, Berlin, S.W., Schoneberger- 

 strasse 17a. Price 7s.] — We are not surprised that this excellent 

 annotated list, which runs out to 361 + xii, 8vo. pages, has reached a 

 •second edition. It comprises the whole of the Macro and Micro lepi- 

 doptera, and the following will give some idea of the richness of the 

 fauna dealt with : — Rhopalocera 133 species ; Sphingids, Sesiids, 

 Thyridids, and Anthrocerids 58 species ; Nycteolids, Lithosiids, Arctiids, 

 Cossids, Cochlidids, Liparids, Lasiocampids, Endromids, Saturniids, 

 Drepanulids, Notodontids, 135 species ; Noctuids 403 species ; Geome- 

 trids 330 species ; Pterophorids 41 species ; Alucitids 6 species ; Pyra- 

 lidids 187 species; Tineids and Tortricids 1,274 species. We observe 

 that the arrangement is such that the Choreutids, Glyphipterygids, ami 



