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MR. H. N. RIDLEY ON THE 



INSECT A, excepting Coleoptera. 



By F. KiRBY, F.L.S., F.E.S., 



Assistant in the Zoological Department, British Museum. 



Notwithstanding the comparatively large proportion of new 

 species in the present collection, it would be a mistake to suppose 

 that very many will ultimately prove to be confined to the island 

 of Fernando Noronha. The greater part belong to Orders of 

 insects which are comparatively little collected or studied, and 

 among which large numbers of conspicuous species remain to be 

 described, even from the best explored tropical countries. 



The few Lepidoptera in the collection were taken at an un- 

 favourable season of the year, and many are worn specimens. 

 They exhibit more decidedly West-Indian affinities than might 

 have been expected. 



I prefix to the j)aper a full list of all the sj)ecies obtained, 

 except a few which were worn, immature, or too scantily re- 

 presented for satisfactory identification. They are arranged 

 systematically under the orders and principal families to which 

 they belong. 



List of Impedes obtained. 



Order ORTHOPTERA. 



FORFICULID^. 



Gryllid.e, 



1. Pygidicrana notigera; Stxil. 



2. Labidura riparia, Fall. 



3. Auisolabis janeirensis, Bohvn. 



4. Antoni, Dohrn. 



11. Scapteriscus abbreviatus, Sciuld. 



] 2. Gryllus assimilis, Fahr. 



13. forticeps, Sanss. 



14. CEcanllius(?) pallidocinctus,n. sp. 



Phanopterid.e. 



Blattid^. 



15. Conocepbalus vernalis, n. sp. 



5. Phyllodromia poststriga, WalA: 



6. Ischnoptera lucida, WalA: 



7. Periplaneta americana, lAnn. 



8. Blatta incommoda, n. sp. 



9. Leucophasa surinaniensis, Limi. 

 10. Euthyrraplia pacifica, Coq. 



— , var. n. frater. 



IG, Q^cella (u. g.) furcifera, n. sp. 

 17. Meroncidius viridinervis, u. sp. 



LoCUSTIDiE. 



18. Steiiopola dorsalis, Thunh. 



