212 Ins, 
OETHOPTERA. 
Stal, C. Bidrag till sodra Afrikas Orthopter-fauna. Oilfv. Ak. Fork, 
xxxiii. No 3, pp. 29-76. 
A list of species from Damara Land and Ovambo, with a few from 
Cape Colony. New genera and many new species are described. 
. Observations Orthopterologiques. Sv. Ak. Handl. Bihang, iii. 
No. 14, pp. 1-43. In three parts : — (1) Sur une systematisation 
nouvelle des Phasmides ; (2) Sur le systeme des Acridiides ; (3) 
Diagnoses d’Orthopt^res nouveaux. 
. Sur les caracteres distinctifs des Locustieus et des Crylliens. 
CB. Ent. Belg. xix. pp. ix.-xii. 
The main distinction between these families is that in the Locustidce 
the anterior coxae are very short and transverse, whereas in the GryllidcB 
these parts are much longer, or longer than broad. Other characters are 
entered into in detail, and the position of some anomalous genera discussed. 
Thomas, Cyrus. Report upon the collections of OrtJioptera made in 
portions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and 
Arizona, during the years 1871-1874. In Wheeler’s Rep. Geogr. 
Expl. W. of 100th Mer. (Washington : 1875, 4to), v. Zoology, chapt. 
xiii. pp. 845-908, pis. xliii.-xlv. 
. A List of OrtJioptera collected by J. D. Putnam during the 
summers of 1872-1875, chiefly in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming 
Territories. P. Davenp. Ac. i. pp. 249-264, pi. xxxvi. ; followed 
(pp. 265 & 266) by notes by Putnam. 
Woodward, Henry. On a remarkable fossil Orthopterous Insect from 
the Coal Measures of Scotland. J. G. Soc. xxxii. pp. 60-64, pi. ix. 
Describes a singular fossil referred to the Mantidce ; concluding with 
a list of the known insects and Araclmida from the Palaeozoic rocks. 
Additions, &c., to this list are given by Scudder, Geol. Mag. (2) iii. 
p. 519, and Heer, 1. c. p. 520. 
Pachytylopsis persenairii. A critique on the position of this fossil, by 
Weyers and Van Volxem (posthumously), appears in CR. Ent. Belg. xix. 
pp. xxviii.-xxxiv. The conclusions arrived at are: — -(1) It is doubtful 
if the impression be that of the wing of an Orthopteron ; (2) it is abso- 
lutely certain that it is not that of an Acrydien. 
Notes on capture and preservation; A. Durien, Pet. Nouv. 1876, 
pp. 13 & 14. 
FoRPICULARIiE. 
Scudder, S. H. Brief Synopsis of North American Earwigs, with an 
appendix on the fossil species. Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. ii. pp. 249-260. 
A tabular synopsis of genera and species ; the latter about 38 in 
number. 
. Critical and Historical Notes on Forjicularicc ; including descrip- 
tions of new generic forms, and an alphabetical synonymic list of 
the described species. P. Bost. Soc. xviii. pp. 287-332. 
The aim of this useful memoir is sufficiently indicated in the title. It 
