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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
broad, distinctly sinuate at base; appendages very long; anterior keel of 
femoral furrow continued to apex. Sp. Nepa grossa (Fab.), vicina (Sign.), 
annulipes (Lap.), ater (Linn.) ; L. limosus, sp. n., Sttfl, I c. p. 188, Senegal. 
Borhorophilmf g. n., Stul, 1. c. p. 188. Allied to preceding ; appendages 
short ; anterior keel of femoral fuiTow suddenly abbreviated towards apex. 
Sp. Nepa afzelii (StSl), 
Notonectidaj. 
■ Stal (Hem. Afr. iii.) refers the insects of this group to 3 families — Noto- 
nectida, Bleida, and Sigarida. Bothronotm (F\<d\i.')=iEnithares (Spin.). 
Douglas enumerates several species of Corixa taken in the spring of 1866 
(Ent. M. Mag. iii. pp. 26-27), and refers to their mode of life. C. prausta 
(Fieb.) Is new to Britain. Douglas mentions 3 species taken by Scott at 
Dunoon, 2 apparently new, the third probably $ of C, douglasi (Fieb.). 
Power records the occurrence of Corixa pranista and C. limitata in Britain. 
Entomologist, iii. p. 78. 
On the nocturnal flight of Corixa falleni (Fieb.) see F. Low, Verb, zool.- 
bot. Ges. in Wien, xvi. p. 946. 
Homoptera. 
Marshall has continued his synoptical revision of the British Homoptera 
(Ent. M. Mag. vols. ii. and iii., see p. 634) ; but it is still incomplete. The 
portions published in 1866 include descriptions of Cicadellina. 
Stridulantia. 
Stal (Hem. Afr. iv.) admits a great number of genera of this 
family, whieh he tabulates on pp. 1-9. Many of them are indi- 
cated as new. Upon the known genera cited the following 
synonymic indications are given : — Cephaloxys (Sign.) = Mo- 
gannia (A. & S.) ; Fidicina and Hemisciera (A. & S.) are com- 
bined, as also Platypleura and Oxypleura (A. & S.), and Melamp- 
salta, Cicadettay and Tettigetta (Kolen.). The genus Tibicen 
(Lat.) is divided by Stal into the subgenera AbrictUy Abroma, 
Quintiliay and Epora (Stal) . 
Dunduhia mannifera (Linn.), characterized by St§,l, Berl. ent. Zeits. 1866, 
p. 170 = Tettigonia vaginata (Fab.) = Cicada virescens (Oliv.). . 
Gceana f estiva (Fab.) = Cicada thalassma (Gu6r.) = G. consohrina (White) 
= Cic. pei'chei'onii (Giu^r.). StSl, 1. c. p. 170. 
, According to Stil (1. c. p. 171), Cicada viridis and bicolor (Oliv) belong to 
Fidicina ; Cicada angtdaris (Germ.), himaculata (Oliv.) = atrovirens (Guer.), 
and Dunduhia fuscipes (StSl) to Cicada (Linn., StSl) ; and Cicada marginata 
(Oliv.) = T. viridis (Fab.) to Tympanoterpes (StSl). 
Selymbria (Stl,l). Cephaloxys nutans is referred to this genus by StSl, 
I c. p. 171. 
Platypleura cervina (Walk.) = P. straminea (Walk.). StSl, 1. c. p. 172. 
Cicada pulchella (StRl) described by StEI, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 255. 
New genera : — 
Pcecilopsaltriay g. n.. Still, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 2. Allied to Tettigades ; thorax 
angulated on each side ; anterior femora not spinose, metasternum elevated, 
