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ORTHOPTBRA. 
MANTIDiE. 
Brongniart, Charles. Observations sur la maniere dont les Mantes 
coustruisent leurs oothdques ; sur la structure des ootheqnes ; sur 
r^closion et la premiere mue des larves. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) i. 
pp. 448-452, pi. xiii. 
Observations ba.sed upon an Algerian species (not named). In order 
to construct its egg-case, the insect makes use of its abdomen and the 
extremities of its elytra. If a section be made in the direction of the 
grooves, the eggs are seen to be placed in a median circular chamber, 
each of the grooves corresponds to a ‘ stage,’ and one case may contain 
twenty ‘stages.’ Each ‘stage’ is separated into two cells (‘loges’), and 
in each cell the eggs are deposited symmetrically in such a manner that 
the abdominal part of each egg is placed against the wall of the cell. 
Each central cell contains a dozen eggs, but they are less numerous in 
the end cells. The young larvae emerge from the cells by the aid 
of spines on the cerci and legs, and they do not fall to the ground, 
but are sustained by two very long and slender threads fixed at the 
extremities of the cerci and to the walls of the cells, so that they may be 
likened to a bunch of grapes. They remain several days in that condi- 
tion, and their first-moulted skins remain suspended to the case. {Cf also 
C. R. xciii. pp. 94-96 ; Le Nat. i. p. 450 ; J. II. Micr. Soc. (2) i. p. 884 ; 
Pop. Sci. Rev. V. p. 375 ; Ann. N. H. (5) viii. pp. 164-166.) 
Perlamantis alliherti, Guerin, = Ameles decolor ^ Charp., Bormans, 
Ann. Ent. Belg. xxv. p. 28. 
New species : — 
Polyspilota saussurii^ Bormans, Ann. Mus. Genov, xvi. p. 209, Equa- 
torial Africa. 
Mioma7itis menelilci, id. ibid, (with fig. of face, p. 210), Equatorial 
Africa. 
Thespis bormantiella (Saussure), id. 1. c. p. 210, Equatorial Africa. 
Hoplocorypha (Saussure), id. 1. c. p. 211, Equatorial Africa. 
PhASMATIDJ]. 
Lopaphus coccophaguSf Newp., and Phibalosoma apollonius, Westwood, 
destructive to cocoa-nut trees in the Fiji Islands; J. Blyth & 0. O. 
Waterhouse, P. E. Soc. 1881, p. xxviii. ; D. R. Smith, Gard. Chron. (2) 
xvi. pp. 472 & 473. 
Diapheromera femorata. Say. On the damage done to hickory by this 
insect, with reproduced figures; Packard, Bull. U. S. Ent. Com. vii. 
pp. 77 & 78. 
Phasma perezi, sp. n., Bolivar, An. Soc. Esp. x. p. 479, Ecuador. 
Gryllid.®. 
Borman, E. Mat^riaux pour I’anatomie du Gryllus domesticus. Troudy 
Ent. Ross. xi. pp. 221-251, pis. viii. & ix. [1880: in Russian]. 
