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figs. 3 & 4, middle carboniferous of Pennsylvania, B. anaglyptica. Germ., 
pi. ii. fig. 16, B, vetusta^ Lesq., pi. vi. fig. 12, Blattidium mantidioideSy 
Gold., pi. iii. fig. 8, and woodcut, Blattina carhonaria, Germ., pi. ii. fig. 3, 
B. didyma, Germ., pi. ii. fig. 13, B, russoma, Gold., pi. ii. fig. 6, B. lepto- 
phlebicay Gold., pi. iii. fig. 9, B. manehachensis^ Gold,, pi. ii. fig. 14, E. 
elongata^ Sc., = B. sp., Geinitz, without name, pi. ii. fig. 10, B. parvula, 
Gold., pi. ii. fig. 9, and B. insignis, Gold., doubtfully pertaining to genus, 
pis. ii. fig. 7, iv. fig. 9 ; ArcMmylacris, Sc. (1868), includes A. acadius, Sc., 
pi. vi. figs. 8 & 14, and A. parallelum[-lus], sp. n., p. 85, pi. vi. fig. 6, from 
the lower coal-measures of Pennsylvania ; in AnthracohlaMina, g. n., p. 87, 
are B. spectahilis, Gold., pi. ii, fig. 8, A. sopita, Sc., = B. didyma^ Gein., 
nec Germ., pi. iv. fig. 8, B. dreadensis^ Gein., vide infrd^ woodcut, B. por- 
recta^ Gein., pi. iv. fig. 5, B. winteriana^ Gold., pi. iv. fig. 12, B. remigii^ 
Dohrn, pi. iv. fig. 2, and B. rucJcerti^ Gold., pi. iv. fig. 1 ; Gerahlattina, 
g. n., p. 97, comprises B. goldenhergi^ Mahr, pi. iii. fig. 13, B. clathrata, 
Heer, pi. iii. fig. 4, B. intermedia. Gold., pi. iii. fig. 11, B. scaherata^QoXd., 
pi. iii. fig. 3, B. geinitzi^ Gold., pi. ii, fig. 11, B, muensteri, Germ., pi. ii. 
fig. 12, G. productay Sc., = B. euglypticay Gold.,^ar5, nec Germ., pi. iii. 
fig. 2, B, germariy Heer, pi. iii. fig. 6, B. mahriy Gold., pi. iii, fig. 14, B. 
weissiana, Gold., pi. iii. fig. 1, G. halteata, sp. n., p. 110, pi. vi. figs. 9 & 10, 
upper carboniferous of Virginia, and B./ascigera, Sc., pi. vi. figs. 1 & 2 ; 
Hermatohlattina, g. n., p. 115, comprises B. lebachensis. Gold., pi. iv. fig. 11, 
and B. wemmetsweileriensis, Gold., pi. iv. fig. 14 ; Progonoblattinay g. n., 
p, 118, includes B. Tielvetica, Heer, pi. iii. fig. 10, and B. fritschiy Heer, 
pi. iii. fig. 12; Oryctoblattinayg. n., p. 121, has for type B. reticulatay Germ., 
pi. iv. fig. 13; Petrablattina, g. n., p. 123, includes B. graciliSy Gold., 
pi. iv. fig. 4, and B. sepultay Sc., pi. vi. fig. 7. The following species can- 
not be definitely referred, viz., B. tischbeiniy Gold., pi. iv. fig. 10, B. lati- 
nerviSy Heer, pi. iv. fig. 3, B. venosay Gold., pi. iv. fig. 6, and Poly zoster otes 
granosus, Meyer. A tabular view of the genera is to be found on p. 27 ; 
it cannot be reproduced here. 
Phyllodromia germanica is found in houses in the Ardennes ; M. Girard, 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ix. p. clix. 
Amceba blattce and its connection with Blatta orientalis ; Leidy, P. Ac. 
Philad. 1879, p. 204. 
Blattina dresdensis, sp. n., Geinitz & Deichmiiller, SB. ges. Isis, 1879, 
p. 12, woodcuts, fossil in the Carboniferous of Saxony. 
Ectobia brunneri, sp. n., V. L. Seoane, MT. schw. ent. Ges. v. p. 485, 
Ferrol. 
Mantidje. 
Wood-Mason, James. On the Systematic Position of some little-known 
Asiatic Mantideay with descriptions of two new species belonging to 
the genus Hestias. P. A. S. B. 1879, pp. 267-259. 
Ilestias, Saussure. Wood-Mason, 1. c., refers this genus to the sub- 
family HarpagidcBy and places in it the following species:- — H. brun~ 
nerianay Sauss., H. rogenhoferi (= PacTiymantis rogenhoferiy Sauss.), H. 
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