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ORTHOPTERA. 
A list of species of all families taken at Cascante, in Navarre, is given 
by Bolivar, Act. Soc. Esp, vi. pp. 71 & 72. 
A list of species found in Podolia is given by M. Lompicki in 
Sprawozd. Kom. fizyiogr. xi. pp. 128-146. 
A list of six species (one new) found during the voyage of H.M.S. 
“Peterel” to the Gralapagos Islands, is given by A. G. Butler, P. Z. S. 
1877, pp. 87 & 88. 
R. P. Uhler gives a list of species captured by him when on the United 
States Geological Survey in 1875 ; one is described as new, and many 
others are not identified. Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. iii. pp. 791-796. 
FoRPICULIDiE. 
The use of the forceps in Forjicula is to lift the elytra in order to 
allow the wings to expand ; J. G. Morris, Canad. Ent. ix. pp. 218 & 219. 
Blattid^. 
Girard, Maurice. La domestication des Blattes. Bull. Soc. Acclim. 
(3) iv. pp. 296-309. 
A useful popular article, with illustrative woodcuts, on the various 
spooios found iu houses, &c. See also (so fur as PerqUaneta amerkana 
is concerned) “ La Nature,” v. pt. i. pp. 399 & 400. 
New genera or suhgenera : — 
Nisibis, subg. of Thyrsocera. Type, (iV.) amcena. Stal, CEfv. Ak. 
Forh. xxxiv. No, 10, p. 34, Philippines. 
Dorylma^ p. 36. For Periplaneta fiavicincta^ and D. hrunneri, sp. n., 
p. 37, Philippines. 
Cutilia, p. 36. For Periplaneta triangulata^ Polyzosteria soror, and C. 
tar tar ea, sp. n , ibid.^ Philippines. 
Methana, ibid. For Periplaneta pallipalpia and ligata^ Brim. 
Salganea, p. 37, subg. of Panesthia. For P. morio, Burm. 
Coipqria, ibid., subg. of Panesthia. For P. mandarineq, Saussure. 
New species : — 
Thyrsocera (^Pachnepteryx^ signaticollis dind. pallidicollis, T. (T.) lugu- 
bris, circumcincta^ rufiventris, and semicincta, Stal, 1. c. p. 33, circumclusa, 
p. 34, Philippines. 
Chorisoneura nigrodineata, ibid., Philippines. 
Homalopteryx obscurifrons, ibid., Philippines. 
JEpilampva puncticollis, cribellata, rustica, plebeia, ibid., tagalica, 
trivialis, caliginosa, lugubrina, meticulosa. ferruginosa, cryptophthalma, 
pudica, p. 35, imperatoria^ p. 36, Philippines. 
Platyzosteria ingens, Scudder, P. Bost. Soc. xix. p. 92, sabalianus, p. 93, 
Florida. 
Panesthia monstruosa, Wood-Mason, Ann. N. H. (4) xix. p. 117, S. 
India, wallacei, ibid., near Singapore, ibid., N4gd Hills, Brah- 
maputra Valley, &c., saussurii (= mandarinea, Sauss., $ ), p. 118, Sikkim; 
