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LoCUSTIDiE. 
Dewitz, H. Bau und Entwickelung der Legescheide bei Locusta viri- 
dissima. Z. wiss. Zool. xxv. pp. 176-183, pi. xii. 
Cyclophyllum concavum. A too-familiar figure appears in Rep. Soc. 
Ont. 1874 (1875), fig. 32. The sound produced by this insect analysed ; 
Scudder, “ Psyche,” i. p. 93. 
ScuDDER, P. Best. Soc. xvii., describes the following, new genera and 
species : — 
Steirodonopis^ p. 259. Allied to Phylloptera ; type, S. hilohaia, p. 260, 
N. Peru. 
Annllomes^ p. 261. Allied to Phanerdptera\ for A. unipunctata 
marancna, p: 262, N. Peru. 
Ccelophyllum^ p. 263 (aflSnities not stated). Type, C. simplex^ \hidi. 
N. Peru. 
Stalia, p. 454. Phyllophoridce ; evidently allied to Hetrodes. Type, 
S.foliata, p. 457, pi., figs. 3-5, Old Calabar. 
Lirometopum, p. 457. CondcepJialidce ; but not closely allied to any 
known genera. Type, L. coronatum^ p. 458, pi., figs. 1 & 2, New 
Granada. 
BelocepTialus, p. 458. Allied to ConocepJialiis ; type, B. subapterus, 
p. 459, Florida. 
Orophus peruvianus, p. 260, N. Peru. 
Phylloptera tripunctata, p. 261, N. Peru. 
Meroncidius transvittatiis, p. 264, N. Peru. 
Leptotettix tessellata, ibid., N. Peru. 
Conocephalus infuscatus, p. 265, N. Peru. 
Orchelimum ortoni, ibid., N. Peru, nigripes^ p. 459, Texas. 
Xiphidium strictuWy Texas, antipodurn, New Zealand, meridionale\ 
Brazil, p. 460, ictum, p. 461, Guatemala, gossypii, ibid. Texas, Mississippi, 
Arkansas (injurious to the cotton plant), nemorale^ p. 462, Texas. 
ACRYPIIDiE. 
Tragocephala, revised; it includes Acridium viridifasciatum, 
De Geer (the variations in which are discussed), T. pacifica, Thomas, 
and two new species : S. H. Scudder, P. Bost. Soc. xvii. pp. 480-485. 
Caloptenus spretus. C. Y. Riley, Rep. Ins. Mo. vii. pp. 121-196, gives 
a very exhaustive account of this insect and its ravages in Missouri, &c., 
with woodcuts, and a map of Missouri, illustrating the extent of the 
“Locust invasion” of 1874. Species easily confounded with the 
true “ Rocky Mountain Locust ” are figured, such as Caloptenus femur- 
Tuhrum and C. differentialis. The insect has occurred in Massachusetts ; 
Packard, Am. Nat. ix. p.^3. A compiled account of its ravages, with 
figures; Bethune, Rep. Soc. Ont. 1874 (1875), pp. 30-42. In Canad.Ent. 
vii. pp. 133-135, Dodge notices that it is double brooded. Hatching in 
Texas, &c., early in spring, the first brood flies northward, but not further 
than the south of Nebraska ; the second brood in August goes south 
with the first favourable wind, reaching Texas in September ;* depositing 
