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REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLII : 
Sumatra ; rubro-marginata, from Borneo ; lobifolia, fuscescens, and 
brevifolia, from Java. Gnathoclita, Hagenb., a new form founded on 
L. vorax, Stolb., differs from Anostostoma^ by the broad soles of the tarsi, 
from Listroscelis, by the short spines of the anterior tibiae and the not- 
elongated maxillary-palpi ; it seems to be more nearly allied to Pro- 
chilus, Brull. Saga minuta, from the Cape. A peculiar unnamed 
group, which has narrow tegmina, rounded wings of the length of the 
abdomen, chink-like openings on the anterior tibiae ; a large head, with 
the vertex produced forwards, the prothorax truncated posteriorly, pro- 
sternum with two spines, and the ovipositor long, narrow, and curved, 
includes L. megacephala, from New Guinea, and L. laticeps, from Am- 
boyna. Conocephalus cuspidatus, KL, from Brazil ; acanthocerus, of 
which the native country is unknown ; mucro, from Amboyna ; planis- 
pina, from Java ; crassiceps, from Japan. Decticus Burgeri, from Japan. 
Locusta loboensis, from New Guinea ; sumatrana, from Padang (viri- 
dissima is also found in Japan). Raphidophorus marmoratus, cubaensis, 
from Cuba. Gryllacris phryganoides, from Java ; famigata and Ser- 
villei, from Borneo ; podocausta, from Java. 
The reporter has noticed (Arch. 1842, i. p. 249) three new species from 
Van Diemen’s Land ; two of them, Agroecia lateralis, and Xiphidium 
bilineatum, have stumps of tegmina ; the third, Gryllacris ambulans, 
is completely apterous. 
Adam White (Gray’s Zool. Miscell. ii. p. 78) has described a remark- 
able new form from New Zealand, under the name of Deinacrida 
heteracantha. He thinks it must be an Anastostoma, Gray ; the arm- 
ing of the breast, the two strong spines of the prothorax, and two strong 
teeth of the excavated mesothorax and metathorax agree with that genus, 
the mandibles are much shorter, the labial-palpi thickened at the point, 
the maxiUary-palpi very long, the last joint slightly thickened at the 
point, the antennae twice and a half, and the hinder legs twice as long 
as the body ; the posterior tibiae quadrangular, the angles armed with 
very sharp spines placed alternately ; the body brown above, yellow be- 
neath. 
Harris (1. c. s. p. 126) mentions, among the species found in Massa- 
chusetts ; — Raphidophora maculata {Gryllus maculatus, Harr. Catal. 
of Ins. of Massachus., which is apparently identical with Phalangopsis 
lapidicola, Burm.) living among stones and rubbish ; Platyphyllum con- 
cavum, Harr., in the Encycl. Amer. vol. viii., is, as the author reasonably 
conjectures, Loc. perspillata, F. ; Platyphyllum persp., Serv. ; Cyrto- 
phyllus persp., Burm. Harris distinguishes a species allied to the 
Phaneroptera oblongifolia {Locusta obi., De Geer), as Ph. angustifolia, 
by the narrower tegmina and much shorter and stronger curved ovipo- 
sitor of the female. Orchelimum agile, Serv. {Locusta ag., De Geer), 
is not found in Massachusetts ; but there are two new species : — 
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