260 Ins. 
ORTHOPTERA. 
June 14th, 1878, but the arrears had been overcome by the end of the 
year, so that the ante-dating of the headings has since been avoided.] 
Lomnicki publishes a local list, with descriptions of some already 
known species in the vernacular, in Sprawozd. Kom. fizyiogr. xii. pt. ii. 
pp. (10)-(14). 
Protective resemblances in some South African species, noticed by 
J. P. Mansel Weale, Tr. E. Soc. 1878, pp. 184 & 186. 
T. A. Marshall publishes notes on the habits of various species found 
in the Island of Antigua; P. E. Soc. 1878, pp. xxx. & xxxi. 
Forpiculid.®. 
Dubrony, a.* Essai sur le genre Chelidura. Ann. Mus. Genov, xii. 
pp. 433-450, with woodcuts. 
A monograph of the genus, describing 8 species of which 1 {C. holivari, 
. p. 444, figs., Spain) is given as new. Figures of the following are 
given : — C. sinuata, Germ., and var. dufouri, Serv., acanthopygia, Gdne, 
and aptera, Chp. 
Blattidjc. 
Panchlora maderce, P., is common in Antigua, and at night makes a 
noise similar to that of a distant nightjar ; T. A. Marshall, P. E. Soc. 1878, 
p. xxxi. 
Panesthia javanica is viviparous; J. Wood-Mason, P. E. Soc. 1878, 
P- li- 
Aphlehia virgidata, sp. n., Bolivar, Ann. Ent. Belg. xxi. p. 67 ; id. An. 
Soc. Esp. vi. p. 423, pi. iv. figs. 2 & 2 a, Portugal. 
Blattina sepuUa, sp. n,, Scudder, Canad. Nat. (2) viii. p. 89, fossil in the 
Carboniferous of Cape Breton. 
MANTIDiE. 
Wood-Mason, James. On the difference in the form of the antennas 
between the males of Idolomorpha and those of other genera of 
Empusidce. Tr. E. Soc. 1878, pp. 259-262, woodcuts. 
The author maintains that in Idolomorpha the antennae are only uni- 
pectinate, as there is only one process to each joint, whereas in allied 
genera each joint has two processes. 
. On the presence of a stridulating apparatus in certain Mantidce. 
L. c. pp. 263-267, woodcuts. 
The stridulating organ, most noticeable in species of Hierodula, is a 
thickening of the principal nervure in the tegmina, which thickening is 
usually toothed. 
. On a saltatorial Mantis. L. c. pp. 268 &. 269. 
Concerns a species otAmdes from Portugal. . 
* Vide anted , p. 259. 
