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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
To the Heterogamidje are referred only : — 
Ileterogamia (Burm.), with Gspecies; 3 new; figured H. cegyptlaca (Linn.), 
pi. 10. fig. 62. And 
Ilomcdogamia (Burm.), with II. mexicana (Burm.), pi. 11. fig. 63. 
The Blaberidas include : — 
Monachoda (Burm.), with 9 species, 2 new ; figured M. rejlexa (Serv.), pi. 
11. fig. 64. And 
Blabera (Burm.), with 12 species, 3 new; figured B. atropos (Stal), pi. 12. 
fig. 55. 
And the Panesthid.® consist of : — 
Parahormeticaj g. n., p. 385, with the pronotiim gibbous, semiorbicular in 
front, concealing the head, and the elytra lobiform ; including P. monticollis 
(Burm.) and P. tmnulosa, sp. n., p. 385, pi. 12. fig. 56. 
DasyposomU) g. n., p. 387, with the pronotum smooth, and elytra 0 ; species 
-D. punctulata (Scudder) ; D, nigra, sp. n., p. 388, pi. 13. fig. 67, and 1 ). hi- 
color, sp. n., p. 388, Brazil. 
Panesthia (Burm.), with G species, 2 new ; figured P. Javanica (Serv.), pi. 
13. fig. 68. And 
Paranauphceta, g. li., p. 397, having the pronotum smooth, and its anterior 
margin truncate ; with 6 species ; new P. rujipes, p. 400, Ternate ; figured 
P. circumdata (De Ilaan), pi. 13. fig. 69. 
Mantidas. 
Trimen notices a species of this family with minute fore legs, and re- 
sembling Bacillus. Bate suggests that it will be found to feed upon Bacil- 
lus^ Proc. Ent. Soc. 18G7, p. cv. 
Dennx (Ann. & Mag. N. II. 3rd ser. xix. p. 144) notices the hatching of an 
Australian species of this family at Leeds. He states that at Melbourne 
specimens of this insect are placed upon the window-blinds, where they 
capture the fiies. 
PlIASMTDiE. 
Anisomera huprestoides (?). A note on this species by 0. B. King is 
published in Proc. Ent. Soc. 1867, pp. Ixxviii-lxxx. The author observed 
the species in Jamaica. The prothorax contains 2 glands, secreting a fetid 
fiuid, which is discharged through 2 elevated pores and serves as a defen- 
sive agent. The adult insects are almost always found in copulation.- They 
are nocturnal or crepuscular and gregarious in their habits, are slow in their 
motions, and feed upon the leaves of Bignonia chinensis. Their mode of feed- 
ing is described. The eggs [egg-cases] are cylindrical, and about an eighth 
of an inch in length ; they are subject to the attacks of an Ilymenopterous 
parasite, probably belonging to the Chalcididce. The female is also attacked 
by an Ichneuraonidous parasite. Bates doubts the identification of the spe- 
cies, which ho thinks is a true Phasma. Smith doubts the completion of the 
transformation of a Chalcidite within the egg of the Phasma ; and M^Lachlan 
suggests that the cocoon of the parasite was mistaken by the author for the egg. 
Ritchie (Canad. Nat. & Geol. iii. pp. 66-69) notices the habits and struc- 
ture of the Canadian Spectrum femoratum. His entomological knowledge is 
evidently very limited, as evidenced especially by his reference to the eggs 
of the insect. 
