On AcRiDOXENA, a neio Genus of the family Gryllida3, 309 
3. Various Insects. 
Other creatures of interest were exhibited ; the most im- 
portant, however, belonged to the family of insects, and in 
reference to the first of these, Dr Smith said — Unfortunately, 
he could not get access to a copy of the " Fauna of the 
Gaboon," published by Mr Thomson of Paris. If the curious 
insect now exhibited be not described in that work, it does not 
appear to be recorded in any work he had consulted, nor 
does Mr Adam White, to whom he had shown it, know of 
any figure or description of it. Mr White has kindly given 
the following note, which will enable it to be identified: — 
" Notice of an apparently Undescrihed Species of Orthoptkrous Imect 
of the Family Gryllidae, and other Insects from Old Calabar. By 
Adam White, Esq. 
" This curious insect belongs to the group Camptoxiphce of 
the section LocustaricBt as characterised by Serville, in his 
work on Orthoptera. In this group the oviscapt forms a 
short, bent, broad blade. The present genus, of which I 
have only seen a female, is allied to Fhaneroptera, and has 
some general points of agreement with the genus Markia, 
founded on the Phaneroptera liystrix of Westwood. (See 
' Museum of Natural History/ ii. p. 244.) 
" AcRiDOXKNA,* n. g., White. 
Head large, simple ; eyes small, prominent. Labrum 
large, rounded. 
*' Proihomx with the lateral edge of its back six-spin ed, 
the front two-spined ; the mesothoracic plate, square in front, 
and deeply sinuated behind, edge projecting into a spined 
lobe ; metathoracic plate wider than long, widely lobed 
behind ; the lobes leaving a wide square notch, lobes spined. 
" Tegmina (in the female) sinuated on each of the lateral 
margins, the posterior portion forming a broad lobe, rounded 
behind. 
" Wings slightly larger than the tegmina ; the outer 
margin sinuated and extending at the end into a narrow 
lobe. 
* Zivoi aiul av.r^iSx, strange or curious Acrida 
