214 Ins, 
ORTHOPTERA. 
Homalodemas and Pollusca^ Stal, are respectively ^ ? of one genus, 
for which the former name is retained ; Stal, CEfv. Ak. Forh. xxxiii. 
No. 3, p. 74. 
New genus and species : — 
Cirphis, Stal, 1. c. Allied to Oxyaloa ; type, C. pallipes, ibid. Damara 
Land. 
Ischnoptera bivittata, Thomas, P. Davenp. Ac. i. p. 250, pi. xxxvi. figs. 1 
& 2, San Francisco. 
Ectobia Ticeckeliy Bolivar, An. Soc. Esp. v. p. 118, Ferrol. 
Panesthia nitidissima^ Wood-Mason, J. A. S. B. xlv. pt. 2, p. 189, S. 
India, wallacii^ ibid., near Singapore, flavipennis^ p. 190, Ndgd Hills, 
Brahmaputra Valley, &c.. 
Homceogamia ventriosus [-sa], Scudder, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. i. p. 448, 
fossil in tertiaries of Colorado. 
Blattina sepulta, id., Canad. Nat. viii. p. 89, fig. 1, fossil, in the Car- 
boniferous of Cape Breton. 
Mantidac. 
Wood-Mason, J. On the femoral brushes of the Mantidce, and their 
function. P. A. S. B. 1876, p. 123. 
An abstract of a paper concerning a species of Hierodula from the 
Nicobars, in which attention is called to a brush of stiff hairs near the 
distal end of each fore femur, existing in it and in many other piembers 
of the family. He considers these brushes are used for cleaning the parts 
of the mouth after feeding ; at p. 176, it is stated that the brushes are 
used for cleaning the eyes. 
. On the geographical distribution of Schizocephala^ a genus of 
Mantidm : id. ibid. 
Contrary to the opinion of Saussure, to the effect that this genus is 
peculiarly African, it is one of the most widely distributed in India. 
. On the development of the antennas in the pectinicorn Mantidoi : 
id. 1. c. p. 228. 
In Gongylus gongylodes, no difference in the antennae of the sexes is 
observable down to the penultimate moult, when the pectinations in the 
male begin to develop. 
. Description of a new species of Mantidce^ with pointed eyes ; Ann, 
N. H. (4) xviii. pp. 441-443. 
Sexual differences in various species noticed by Wood-Mason, P. A. 
S. B. 1876, p. 176. 
Mantis religiosa found abundantly near Fontainebleau ; M. Girard, 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1876, p. clxxix. Near Havre ; A. Pdrard, Feuil. Nat. 
vi. p. 155. At Mesnil (Marne) ; A. Bethune, op. oit. vii. p. 22. 
New genera '. — 
Antostia (subg. n. of Ameles), Stal, CEfv. Ak. Forh. xxxiii. No. 3, 
p. 69. Type, A. (A.) maculipennis, sp. n., ibid.y Damara Land. 
Carvilia (subg.-n. of J^ischeria'), id. Z. c. p. 70; type, F. (C'.) saussuriiy 
sp. n., ibid.y Damara LafA. 
