270 Ins, 
ORTHOPTERA. 
cidius specularis, F., and Pachytes, 2 spp. nn. ?) recorded from the Island 
of Ascension ; C. 0. Waterhouse, Ann. N. H. (5) viii. p. 436. 
The form of the stigmata in Gryllotalpa vulgaris^ Gryllus campestris, 
Gomphocerus, and Forficala auricularia discussed by O. Krancher, Z. wiss. 
Zool. XXXV. pp. 548-551. 
F. T. Koppen, in Beitr. Russ. Reiches (2) i. pp. 87-111 [1879], enters 
exhaustively into the subject of damages occasioned by insects of this 
Order, as regards Russia in particular, but treated also in a general 
manner. 
A list of a few species of no special interest collected by De Borre and 
Becker in Provence and Germany in 1880 is given by De Bormans in 
CR. Ent. Belg. xxv. pp. xxv. & xxvi. 
A list of 18 species from Turkistan, by A. Ostroumolf ; Zool. Anz. iv. 
p. 597. 
Two known species recorded from Angola ; A. Girard, J. Sci. Lisb. 
1881, p. 239. 
Sixty or seventy specimens of fossil Orthoptera have been discovered 
in the tertiary beds at Florissant, Colorado, of all families (excepting 
Gryllidce and Mantidee) ; the greater part of them pertain to 8 or 10 
species of ForficuUdce. S. H. Scudder, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 293 ; 
abstr. in Ann. N. H. (5) viii. p. 458. 
Forficulid^. 
Forficula yersini^ Brisout. According to De Bormans, the type of this 
supposed species indicates a var. of F. puhescens, G4n^, but with struc- 
tural characters that appear to be constant. The forceps of both forms 
are minutely described and figured. Ann. Ent. Belg. xxv. pp. 26 & 27. 
Forjicula auricularia^ L., recorded from the Faroe Islands ; H. J. 
Hansen, Nat. Tidskr. xiii. p. 276. 
Damages by earwigs to insects on setting-boards ; H. J. Dobson, Ent. 
xiv. p. 239. 
C. R. Osten-Sacken calls attention to an old notice by J. Williams, 
published in Zool. 1850, p. 2695, with regard to the use of the forceps in 
Forficula ; Canad. Ent. xiii. p. 80. 
Blattidji. 
Breme, S. Recherches comparatives des organes g^nitaux du Blatta 
germanica et Feriplaneta orientalis. Troudy Ent. Ross. xi. 
pp. 157-181. In Russian. Illustrated by numerous woodcuts. 
Geinitz, F. E. Die Blattinen aus der unteren Dyas von Weissig bei 
Pillnitz. Nova Acta Ac. L.-G. Nat. cur. xli. pt. ii. pp. 424-442, 
pi. xxxix. 
A review of the species in connection with the system adopted in Scud- 
der’s “Fossil Cockroaches.” Blattina didy ma, GevraaVy is considered at 
great length ; it is referred to the genus (or subgenus) Anthracohlattina 
