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another dose of cyanide fumes, and when she revives a second time I 
have found as many as 125 eggs in the paper." The method has also 
been successfully used in securing the eggs of butterflies. 
American Species of Seira.—In a paper on the American spe- 
cies of the Thysanouran genus Seira* Prof. F. L. Harvey describes 5S. 
mimica n. sp., which resembles S. nigromaculata Lubbock, but differs 
in the color and the arrangement of the color patches. It is found in 
warm, dry situations about buildings. S. bulkii Lubbock was also | 
found at Orono, Me., under conditions which indicated that it was in- 
digenous. 
Kentucky Orthoptera.— Prof. H. Garman publishes, in the Sixth 
Annual Report of the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, a 
valuable list of the Orthoptera of that State. In introductory para- 
graphs he makes the following remarks which are of general biological 
interest : 
“The fauna of the State presents no well-marked features of its own. 
The eastern half of the State evidently forms part of an eastern zoolog- 
ieal region, while the western half is as evidently southern in general 
character. The species occurring within our limits fall under five 
categories, as follows: (1) Those which occur everywhere in 
the United States, such as Gryllus abbreviatus, Hippiscus rugosus, 
Chortophaga viridifasciata, Pezotettix bivittatus, P. femurrubrum and 
P. atlanis. (2) Those which belong to the eastern region, represented 
y Acridium alutaceum, A. rubiginosum and Paroxya atlantica. (3) 
Southern species, such as Schistocerca americana, Anisomorpha bupres- 
toides and Stagmomantis carolina. (4) Western species, such as Pezo- 
tettix differentialis and Mestobregma cincta. (5) Cave species, of 
which we have three. 
“In Eastern Kentucky the fauna is, as a whole, eastern and 
northern in character, rather than southern, probably because of the 
greater elevation above sea level of this part of the State. The south- 
ern species show a marked increase in abundance in this section as 
one approaches the southern boundary of the State. Here the north-" 
ern limit of the Austroriparian region may be said to coincide with 
the boundary between Kentucky and Tennessee, and so continues to 
the headwaters of the Barren River, where a sharp northward exten- 
sion occurs, bearing gradually northwestward, and following along the 
eastern limits of our western coal fields to enter southern Indiana and 
*Psyche, Nov., 1894. 
