248 | April, 
tures of the elytra which represent the strie form seven rows. The — 
basal transverse suleus of the thorax runs obliquely across the fovea 
and does not reach the middle. 
Rio Janeiro, from the collection of the late Rev. Hamlet Clark. 
XYSTOSOMUS STRIGOSUS, 1. sp.— A. ovatulo proxime affinis, differt elytris 
punctato-striatis, interstitiis convexis ; nigro-ceneus, leviter iredescens, capite — 
bisulcato, thorace basi utrinque foveato et extus carinato ; elytris latis, ovalibus, 
convexiusculis, striis septem punctatis, quarum 1m sola apicem attingit, 7% vix 
impressa, notatis ; antennis pedibusque testaceo-rufis, his fusco maculatis. 
Long. 13 lin. 
Rio Janeiro. In my own collection and that of Mr. Grut. 
Xysrosomus Grutu, n. sp.—X. strigoso similis, multo major. 
Viridi-eneus, sub-sericeus, iridescens ; fronte sulcis duobus elongatis rectis, 
labro, palpis, antennis, pedibusque fulvo-testaceis, femoribus paulo infuscatis; 
thorace transverso-quadrato, antice rotundato-attenuato, angulis posticis ~ 
productis, acutis, basi utringue fovea magna et extus carinato, sulco ab- 
breviata transversa per foveam ducto; elytris latis, ovalibus, paululum 
convexis, striis 7 dorsalibus duabusque approximatis marginalibus punc- 
tatis, apicem fere attingentibus ; margine lateral explanato, interdum 
rufescenti ; corpore subtus rufescentt. Long. 25 lin. 
Probably the largest known species of the Zachys group of Bembi- 
dine. 
Rio Janeiro. In my own collection and that of Mr. Grut. 
Kentish Town: March, 1871. 
NOTES ON SOME CORSICAN INSECTS. 
BY REV. T. A. MARSHALL, M.A., F.L.S. 
(Continued from page 228). 
Orthoptera. If the number of species of this order be inconside- | 
rable, the multitude of individuals, their size, the strangeness of their 
forms, and the Babel of sounds which they keep up at all hours 
throughout the island, cannot fail to excite the curiosity. The marshes 
of the Campoloro near Ajaccio, and the lonely and pestiferous shores 
of the lagoon fof Biguglia—once a Genoese seaport—are the head 
quarters of the grasshoppers. In June and July, these places are, 
covered with a jungle of densely tangled grasses and flowers, rising 
higher than the breast. Every step disturbs hundreds of scared leaping 
creatures, which display rose-colonred, pale blue, and yellow wings, 
