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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Accmthacaraj Scudd. 1. c. p. 335. Vertex prolonged into a long and curved 
thorn, front very declivent j pronotum produced backward a little over the 
mesonotum j meso- and metanotum resembling the abdominal segments; 
wings absent; thoracic stenia exteriorly, and the coxm internally, with 
small, short, blunt spines; ovipositor curved pretty strongly. A. acutaf 
Scudd., between Quito and Napo. 
Steirodon quadratum^ Scudd. 1. c. p. 331, Guayaquil ; Aeanthodis? attenuatusj 
Scudd. 1. c. p. 332, Napo ; Meroncidium conspersum, Scudd. 1. c., Napo or 
Maranon ; Copiophora gracilis , Scudd. 1. c. p. 333, Napo or Maranon ; Cono~ 
cephalus breoicauda, Scudd., 1. c., Napo ; C. tenuicauda, Scudd. 1. c., Napo or 
Maranon ; Xiphidium aUenuatum, Scudd. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 305, 
Illinois. 
JIadenoccus edwardsiif Scudd. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 408, New 
Zealand. 
Eugaster maurcUiy Lucas, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4“o s^rie, t. ix. pp. 85-88, 
pi. 3. f. 7-14, Senegal and Soudan, 
Geiistacker describes the following new species from Zanzibar and vici- 
nity: — Eugaster loricakcs, Archiv fiir Naturgesch. xxxv. p. 213; E. ephip- 
piatuSj 1. c , ; E. talpuy 1. c. p. 214 ; Cyrnatomera paradoxa and Xiphidium 
hecticum^ 1. c , ; Phaneroptera punctipennis^ 1. c. p. 215 ; P. tetrasbicta, 1. c. 
ACRYDIIDiE. 
ScuDDER (Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. pp. 345-355) divides 
the gigantic lobe-crested grasslioppers of South and Central 
America (forming a section of the old genus Acridium) into three 
groups of generic value, Tropidacris, Titanacris, and LophacriSy 
represented h^^he familiar species A. dux, Drury, A. carinatumy 
Stoll, and A. Mfersiiy Burm. He describes all the species, and 
remarks on the synonymy. 
Packard (Guide, pp. 567-572) gives a very full general ac- 
count of the family and tlieir habits, and figures Culoptenus 
femur -rubi'UMy C. spretuSy and (Edipoda Carolina. 
Byehs (American Entomologist, i. p. 94) and Bevinny (1. c. p. 95) write 
respecting the habits of the Colorado Grasshopper ” ( Caloptenus spretus), 
with especial regard to its breeding-places, which are often many hundred 
miles from the scene of their devastations. They fly with the wind, and on 
a sudden change in its direction drop and commence feeding. 
Butler, (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1869, Proc. pp. iii *&'xi) remarks on a 
species of Conocephalus which he kept alive for some months, during which 
time it ate nothing. It was one of several which had reached this country 
on a ship from West Africa, and at one time a swarm of them had covered 
the deck. 
Acridium peregrinumy Oliv. E. Brown and Bond (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 
1869, Proc. pp. xxviii, xxix) record the capture, at Burton-on-Trent, Ply- 
mouth, &c. of several examples of this insect, which had not been previously 
recorded in any work on European Orthoptera, and which is a native of 
Asia and North Africa. In Newman’s ‘ Entomologist,’ vi., are also several 
records of the capture of locusts in various parts of the country ; these are 
