FORFICU LID^ — MANTID^. 
Ins. 217 
Forficulid;k. 
Bormans, A. de. Etude sur quelques Forficulides exotiques du Musoe 
Royal d’histoire naturelle de Bruxelles. OR. Ent. Belg. xxiii. pp. 
Ixviii.-lxxiv. 
Appears to be a catalogue of the species in the Museum, with localities 
and notes. 
. l^tude sur quelques Dermapteres exotiques. An. Soc. Esp. ix. 
pp. 606-515. 
Note on structure, additional localities, and descriptions of new species. 
Camerano, Lorenzo. Note intorno alio svilluppo della Forficula auri- 
cularia^ Linn. Bull. Ent. Ital. xii. pp. 46-50. 
The eggs are laid in winter or early spring. The $ collects them in a 
heap by means of her mandibles and palpi if intentionally scattered, 
and places herself over them. In one case, eggs laid on March 10th pro- 
duced larv 00 which moulted the first time from the 24th to the 30th of 
the same month, a second time on the 15th April, a third time in the 
beginning of May, and by the 22nd of this month the perfect insects 
appeared. 
Ancistrog aster arthritica, Scudder, $ described ; De Bormans, An. Soc. 
Esp. ix. p. 508. 
Labia arcuata, Scudder, $ described ; id. 1. c. p. 509. 
Sparatta nigrina, Stal, $ described and forceps figured ; id. CR. Ent. 
Belg. xxxiii. p. Ixxii. 
Anisolabis tasmanica^ sp. n., id. OR. Ent. Belg. xxiii. p. Ixviii., forceps 
figured, pi. Ixx., Tasmania; A. peruviana, sp. n., id. An. Soc. Esp. ix. 
p. 505, Peru. 
Labia chelidur aides, sp. n., id. 1. c.p. 509, Peru. 
Sparatta bolivari, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 510, Peru. 
Forficula japonica, p. 512, scudderi, p. 514, spp. nn., id. 1. c., Japan. 
Blattid^. 
Geinitz, F. E. Die Blattinen aus der unteren Dyas von Weissig bei 
Pillnitz. Leop. xli. pp. 423-442. 
[Not seen by the Recorder.] 
Scudder’s “Fossil Cockroaches” \cf. Zool.Rec. xyi. Ins. p. 218] reviewed 
in Bull. Ent. Ital. xii. p. 94. 
Mantidjj. 
Wood-Mason, James. Synopsis of the species of Choeradodis, a remark- 
able genus of Mantodea common to India and Tropical America. 
Ann. N. H. (5) vi. pp. 160-162, and J. A. S. B. xlix. pp. 82-84. 
Notices 7 species, 1 of which is Indian. 
