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INSECTA, RHYNCHOTA. 
Nepides. 
BorhorophyeSf g. n,, StSl, 1. c. p. 70G. Allied to Telmatotrephiis. B. main, 
sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 707, Philippines. 
Laccotrephes robustus, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 706, same locality. 
CoRIXIDiE. 
Ahuautie.” Deyrolle (Pet. Nouv. p. 165) refers, under this name, to the 
eggs of a Corixa, which are reduced to a flour and eaten, seasoned with pi- 
mento, by the Mexicans. He refers also to the means employed for collecting 
the eggs in sufficient bulk. For references to accounts by Virlet d’Aoust & 
Tylor of this practice, ef. Packard, Am. J. Sci. 
Corixa hieroylyphica, Duf. Pogenhofer (Verh. z.-b. Wien, xxi. p. 65) gives 
particulars of enormous swarms of this species at Vienna, Baden, and else- 
where. 
Corixa glauca, C(wih.,==.nigrilineata, Fieb. : Puton, Mitth. schw. ent. Ges. iii. 
p. 425. C. cognata, Fieb., = carinata, Sahib., sec. typ. : J. Sahlberg, Not. Fenn. 
xi. p. 307. 
Corixa ovivora, Westwood, Pr. E. Soc. 1871, iv., S. Canara, Madras Presid. 
(destructive to the eggs of fishes) j C. decolor (? Uhler), Packard, Am. J. Sci., 
Clear Lake, California j C. Icevipennis, p. 804, pallidula, p. 306, J. Sahlberg, 
1. 0 ., Oarelia j C. salina, Puton, Pet. Nouv. p. 124 (diagnosis only), Mitth. 1. c. 
p. 424, Calais : spp. nn. 
HEMIPTEBA HOMOPTERA. 
Sahlberg, John. (EfVersigt af Finlands och den Skandinaviska 
halfons Cicadarise. Not. Fenn. xii. (n. s. 9) pp. 1-506, 
2 pis. 
Though restricted to the Scandinavian species, this careful revision 
(written for the most part in Latin) cannot fail to be of great use to the 
student of European Ilomoptera. It is to be regretted, however, that the 
author appears ignorant of many species described during the past few years 
in England. The plates are chiefly well executed diagrams of alar neuration, 
and tables of the distribution of the different species in Finland, Sweden, and 
Norway. Various lists of species frequenting certain localities and plants 
are given, comparisons also being made with the homopterous faunas of 
Prussia, Livonia, Moscow, and Siberia. Many species and 6 genera are de- 
scribed as new j but the want of comparative diagnostic characters for the 
latter prevents their useful abstraction. 
CiCADIDAS. 
Huechys sanguinea, Am. & S., employed in China as a blistering agent : 
Porter Smith, Pharm. J. & Tr. (3) p. 4, from ^ Medical Times and Gazette.’ 
Cicada hcematodes, ¥., = montana, Scop., for which Melampsalta, Kol., is 
adopted, its characters being reproduced : J. Sahlberg, 1. c. p. 77 et seq. j alar 
neuration figured, ibid. pi. 1. f 7. 
Dundubia melpomene, ^^ 1 .,— Cosmopsaltria fidiginosa, Walk.,StSl, GEfv. 
Vet. Ak. xxvii. p. 708 ; and Cosmoqjsaltria is divided into 3 subgenera, 
Blatylomia (type Dandubia Jlavida, ? Gu6r.), Cosmopsaltria proper (type 
