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Tn Gryllotal/pa he retains australis^ Erichs. ; nitidula, Serville; De Haan; 
vulgaris^ Latr. ; hirsiita^ Burm. ; africana, P. de Beauv. ; longipennisj De Ilaan ; 
fossoVj Scudder, n. sp., 1. c. p. 21, Western and Southern Africa; oryctes^ 
Scudder, n. sp., I, c. p. 22, China ; cultrigeVf Uhler ; chiliensis, Sauss. ; minuta^ 
Burm.; horeolis, Burm.; columhia^ Scudd.,=^w^^■pc;m^s, Scudd., olim\ and 
hexadactyla, Perty. 
Packard (Guide, pp. 662-664) notes the general characters of the family 
and the mode of stridulation. He figures CEcanthus niveusj and states that it 
is injurious to raspberry- and plum-twigs, into which the female bores for the 
purpose of depositing her eggs. On this latter point see also the * American 
Entomologist,’ i. pp. 147 and 247, and Kiley, First Report of Nox. Ins. 
Missouri, pp. 138, 139. 
Scudder (Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, xii.) describes three new South- 
American species : — Nemeohius ortoni, 1. c. p. 330, Napo or Maranon ; Platy- 
clactylus fasciatuSj 1. c. p. 331, Napo or Maranon ; Trigonidium g7'acile, 1. c., 
Napo. 
Gerstacker (Archiv fiir Naturgesch. xxxv.) describes the following new 
species from Zanzibar and vicinity \~Gryllotalpa dehilis, 1. c. p. 211 ; Gryllus 
physomcruSf 1. c . ; G. pulchriccpSj 1. c. p. 212 ; G, xanihoneurus^ G, scenicmf 
and G. lagtieatus, I, c . ; G. diadc7natus, I, c. p. 213 ; G, conia7ni7iatuB^ I, c, 
LoCUSTIDiE. 
Lucas (Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 4me s^rie, t. ix. p. 83) describes and 
figures (pi. 3. f. 1-6) the two sexes of Eugaster servtlleij Reiche and Fairm., 
and a new species, E. maurelii, 
Ghiliani (Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. i. pp. 63-66) describes a singular variety 
of rhane7'optera liliifolin^ Fab., from the vicinity of Turin.— 
Scudder (Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. pp. 408, 409)' fives a synopsis 
of the cave-frequenting genus Hadmoems, and describes a new species from 
New Zealand; the genus having hitherto only occurred in Europe and North 
America. 
In the ‘American Entomologist,’ vol. i., are described the eggs of Platy^ 
phyllu7n co7icavu7n (p. 100) and Phyllopte7'd ohlongifolia (p. 166, with figure). 
New genera and species : — 
Pa7ioplosceles, Scudder, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 333. Head glo- 
bose, the vertex produced in front as a compressed lamina, bidentate ante- 
riorly ; last joint of maxillary palpi a little longer than the preceding three 
joints taken together; pronotum large, produced posteriorly into a high, 
rounded, nearly vertical lamina; sterna bimucronate; tegmina very short, 
coarse, and stout, the male with greatly developed, coarse stridulating 
organs; wings nearly abortive; legs very long, stout, and spiny; femora 
with three stout spines near the apex. P. ar77iata, Scudd., Napo or Maranon. 
Disccratus, Scudd. 1. c. p. 336. Front very declivent ; vertex produced 
into a low, crater-like elevation ; pronotum partially concealing the head, 
but scarcely covering the metanotum ; tegmina minute, wings wanting ; 
coxce and sides of thoracic sterna produced into small blunt spines ; ovi- 
positor curved rather strongly, tapering rapidly, the tip pointed. Z>. tiubiger^ 
Scudd., Salto. 
