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Heteropterous Hemiptera belonging to the families Coresde, Pyrrho- 
coride, and Reduviide.’ The attack made on the South African 
Coreid is therefore well worth recording.—ED. | 
Introduced Orthoptera.—The green Orthoptera brought over with 
bananas belong to various species, but the Natural History Museum 
has just received a rather rare species (not recorded as introduced 
into England before) from Mrs. Neville Ward, of Southampton. This 
is Panchlora fraterna, described by Saussure and Zehntner in the 
‘Biologia Centrali-Americana’: Orthoptera, 1. p. 97, n. 14 (1893) from 
Nicaragua and Panama. I may add that in my previous note on this 
subject, on the top line of p. 117, “hind wings” should read “ hind 
legs.” The insect referred to (Drestrammena marmorata, De Haan) 
is apterous. — W. FE. Kirspy (Natural History Museum, South 
Kensington). 


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Three Voyages of a Naturalist. By M. J. Nicotz, M.B.O.U. 
Witherby & Co. 
Mr. Nicout accompanied Lord Crawford on three cruises in 
his yacht ‘ Valhalla,’ and as natural history objects always 
seem to have prompted these journeys, and many out-of-the- 
way islands were visited, the publication of this book became a 
duty. Our readers will remember that Mr. Nicoll published in 
this Journal his natural history observations made during the 
voyage of 1902-8 (Zool. 1904, p. 401), and communications have 
appeared in other journals with reference to the ‘ Valhalla’ 
expeditions, for new species thus discovered have been described, 
and, what is more, considerable interest appertains to the 
observation of a strange marine animal appertaining to the 
cult of the ‘‘ Sea-Serpent,’’ which was sighted near Para, and of 
which a full account was given at a meeting of the Zoological 
Society of London in 1906. All this matter, or references 
thereto, with very much that is new, is given in this well- 
illustrated volume, which will doubtless find a place in the 
libraries of most naturalists. 
