OIITHOPTERA. 
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POLTPHAGIENS. 
Polyphaga (Bnx\\4i)=iJIeterogamia (Burm.) : syriacttf Sauss., 
Brimn. 
Homceogamia (Burm.) : sme7isis, n. sp., 1. c. p. 282, North China. 
Blabehiens. 
Blabera (Serv.) includes the following species already described by Saus- 
sure : — cuhensis, brasiliafia, minor^ deplanatay and claraziana ( = ligatUy 
Brunn.). 
Panesthiens. 
Pm'ahormetica (Brunn.) : hilohata, Sauss. ; and hengalensiSf n. sp., I, c. p. 284, 
Bengal. 
Dasy 2 Josonia (Brunn.) : castanea, n. sp., 1. c. p. 285, Australia. 
Panesthia (Serv.) includes ; — morio, Burm., = regina, Sauss. ; dilatata^ 
Sauss. ; japonica, Serv. ; mandarbica^ Sauss. (described) 5 and forceps^ n. sp., 
1. c. p. 287, f. 24, Pondicherry. 
Parannuphccia (Brunn.) : limhata, n. sp., 1. c. p. 288, India. 
In the ‘ American Entomologist,’ i. p. 100, the habits and egg-coses of 
Platamodcs wiicolor and Ectobia gcnnanica are described ; the latter species 
is said to have boon taken in Illinois. 
Blaita mclanocephala. Westwood notes that this species is destructive in 
orchid-houses in England, feeding on the buds or young shoots of the plants. 
(Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1809, Proc. p. x.) 
ScuDDER (Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, xii.) describes the following new 
species from the Napo or 'ishiX 2 inoi\:~Phyllodromia pallipes, p. 342, Blabera 
femorata, ibid., and B. armigera^ p. 343. 
Ischnoptera hyalina^ Scudd., Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 307, Delaware. 
Gerstacker (Archiv fiir Naturgesch. xxxv.) describes a new genus and 
the following new species from Zanzibar and vicinity : — Gynopeltisj n. g., 1. c, 
p. 208. Allied to Heterogamia ; differs in the body being glabrous, the ante- 
rior femora spinous. Supraanal lamina of the female entire, transverse qua- 
drate, the cerci shorter than the lamina, foliaceoiis, ovate-acuminate. G.pictaj 
n. sp., 1. c. p. 208. 
Ccratinoptera dimidiata^ l.c. p. 205 ; Phyllodromia bimactdata, 1. c, p. 206 ; 
Derocalymma porcelliSf 1. c. p. 207 ; D. lamp>ifrina, and D. capucina, ibid. 
Mantid^e. 
Saussure (Essai d^un Syst. Mant.) gives an outline of a new 
arrangement of the family, in a tabular form, dividing it intd 
three tribes as under : — 
a. Prothorax short, quadrate, length equal or nearly equal to the breadth, 
not dilated above the anterior coxae Eremiaphilii. 
aa. Prothqrax more or less elongate, dilated above the coxae, parallel or 
dilated into a membrane. 
b. .Eyes ovate or exceptionally slightly acuminate . . Mantii. 
bb. Eyes conoid or terminated in a spine Acanthopsii, 
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