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Gomphocerus. It contains three new species : L. Chi. conspersa ; 
reddish-brown spotted with black, a black stripe upon the head behind 
each eye, and continued along each side of the prothorax ; tegmina 
rather oblong-oval, bright yellowish-brown, with small dark brown 
patches ; wings 1^'" long ; posterior tibiae pale red ; almost 1" long. 
L. Ch. dbortiva ; brown ; tegmina spotted, with black covering two- 
thirds of the abdomen; posterior tibiae coral-red, whitish under the 
knee. Both found on the pasture lands in July, and distinguished only 
by the colour. L. Ch. curtipennis, nearly allied to the G. parallelus, 
Zett. ; tegmina in the male as long as the body ; wings somewhat shorter. 
Among seven species of the genus Tetrix, five are new, namely: — 
T. dorsalis, ^-maculata, hilineata, sordida, and, with T. ornata, Say, 
belong to the division with fourteen-jointed antennae, the point of the 
head projecting before the eyes, and the prothorax elongated over the 
end of the abdomen ; but as these species only differ in colour, it is 
possible that they may, some of them, be only varieties of each other ; 
the two other species belong to the division with twenty-two-jointed 
antennae : T. lateralis, Say, with longer prothorax, and T. parvipennis, 
a new species, differing from the preceding by the prothorax not being 
prolonged over the end of the body, and its much shorter wings. 
Termitina. — Guerin has remarked, concerning the sexes of the 
Termites (Rev. Zool. p. 278), that the males are as yet wholly un- 
known ; for although Burmeister has characterized the female as entirely 
apterous, and all the winged individuals as males, yet he has convinced 
himself, by the anatomical examination of a great number of them, that 
every winged termite is not a male, but may be a young female. Those 
which are called workers Guerin holds to be female larvae, those called 
soldiers he thinks must be male larvae. He is certainly right, when he 
considers the apterous termites as females, for the greater number 
belongs to that sex ; but there are some among the winged individuals, 
which, by attention, can be distingidshed from the common ones, and 
which are, to all appearance, males. Observation alone can show what 
becomes of the soldiers ; all assumptions on this point appear to me to 
be mere conjecture. 
Perlari^. — The comprehensive and complete monograph on this 
family by Pictet, “ Histoire Naturelle generale et particuliere des 
Insectes Neuropteres, Famille des Perlides. Geneve et Paris, 1841, 
8vo., pi. 53,” is now completed. The near relation of these insects to the 
Orthoptera has not escaped the author, and he has very nearly (without 
knowing my opinion), of his own accord, determined to unite them to that 
order (p. 99). The earlier states have been examined with particular 
care ; the anatomical relations have also been regarded, without, how- 
ever, studying them in a very minute manner. Their great similarity 
in this respect to the locusts, is striking; but there are considerable 
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