210 Ins. 
OllTHOPTERA. 
PiROTTA, R. Degli Ortotteri geuuiui Insubrici. Atti Soc. Ital. xxi. 
pp. 59-86. 
A catalogue of the species known to the author from Lombardy, pre- 
ceded by a bibliography, and each indication accompanied by full syno- 
nymy and local information, giving the distribution in general, that in 
Italy particularly, and that in Lombardy especially. 77 known species 
are enumerated, viz., 7 ForficuUdoi^ 5 Blattidce^ 2 Mantidce, 1 Fhas- 
matidcey 8 Gryllidce (including Gryllotalpd), 21 Locustidce^ and 33 Acry- 
diidce. 
. Intorno* agli Ortotteri (e Miriapodi) del Varesotto. Atti Soc. Ital. 
xxi. pp. 631-637. 
Enumerates 31 species collected by Pavesi, viz. : — 4 Forjiciilidce, 1 Man- 
tidce, 3 Gryllidce^ 11 Locustidce, and 11 Acrydiidin. 
ScuDDER, S. H. A Century of Orthoptera. Decade viii., Acridii (il/e- 
lanoplus) ; P. Bost. Soc. xx. pp. 63-75. Decade ix., Acridii {Pezo- 
tettix) ; 1. c. pp. 75-86. Decade x., Locustarice {Conocej)halus) \ 1. c. 
pp. 87-95. 
The whole series of Decades published also collectively under the above 
title^ pp. 1-84, Boston: 1879. 
W. M. Sch^yen, in his “ Supplement til H. Siebke’s Enumeratio 
insectorum Norvegicorum,” fasc. i., gives notes on, and additions to, the 
Norwegian Fauna. Porh. Selsk. Chr. 1879, No. 3, p. 10. 
The species obtained in the Island of Rodriguez during the British 
Transit of Venus Expedition are enumerated by A. G. Butler in Phil. Tr. 
clxviii. pp. 545-549, with fuller descriptions of those considered to be new. 
The following are figured, viz. : — Nemobius luteoliiSj Butler, pi. liv. fig. 2, 
Phisis spifiifera, id., fig. 1, Epachrorriia rodericensis, fig. 3, and Bacillus 
incommodus, fig. 4. 
A slight, and very imperfect, sketch of the Order, including Psetuio- 
Neuroptera, is given by E. L. Taschenberg in his “ Praktische Insekten- 
kunde,” pt. i. pp. 192-208. 
A list of species found at Navacerrada and La Granja in Spain is given 
by Ruiz Madrid in An. Soc. Esp. vii. p. 59. 
An enormous swarm of ‘ Locusts ’ appeared at Meerut, India, in March, 
1879, and occasioned much damage ; remedial means frustrated by the 
fatalistic ideas of the native planters. W. J. Wilson, P. E. Soc. 1879, 
p. xvi. 
FORFICULID.3E. 
Dubrony, a. D. Etude sur quelques Forficulides exotiques. An. Soc. 
Esp. viii. pp. 91-96. 
An indication of 8 species existing in the Madrid Museum, 3 of which 
are described as new. 
Dubrony, Ann. Mus. Genov, xiv. pp. 348-383, has a very important 
memoir on the species of New Guinea, other islands of the Eastern 
