228 Ins. 
BHYNOnOTA. 
OORIXIPiE. 
Corixa hlackbumi, F. B. White, Ann. N. H. (4) xx. p. 114, Hawaiian 
Isles ^ C. tumida, P. R. Uhler, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. iii. p. 454, Colorado : 
spp. nn. 
Sigara yroxima, sp. n., L. Lethierry, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) vii. p. ci., 
Manilla. 
HEMIPTERA-HOMOPTERA, 
Fjeber, Franz Xavier, Les Oicadines d’Europe d’apr^s les originaux 
oi les publioations les plus r^ooutos. Douxi6iue pavtie (suite) : 
Descriptions des esp^ces. Traduit de rallemaud par Ford. Reiber. 
R. Z. (3) V. pp. 1-45. 
Continues descriptions of Fulgoridce [see Zool. Rec. xiii. Ins. p. 230]. 
Homopiera near Norwich ; J. Edwards, Ent. M. M, xiv. p. 44. 
Homoptera flying in December ; J. W. Douglas, op. cit. xiii. p. 189. 
Methods of mounting available for microscope use; J. Edwards, tom. 
cit. pp. 237, 282. 
CiCADiDJ:. 
General observations on stridulation in this family ; A. H. Swinton, 
op. cit. xiv. pp. 78-81. 
Cicada pleheia. G. Carlet, Ann. Sci. Nat. (6) v. Art. 5, pp. 1-35, pi. 
xi. A, describes and figures the musical apparatus, which contains all the 
phonetic elements of the higher animals, viz., a vibrating body, muscular 
motor power, and a thoracic-abdominal cavity. 
Cicada montana stridulating in England ; Jenner Weir, P. F. Soc. 1877, 
p. xiii. This doubted, but confirmed ; 1. c. p. xvi. 
Cicada sp., in the pupal state, reported to dry up vines in Teheran by 
destroying the roots ; C. E. Leprieur, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) vii. p. Ixxxii. 
{cf. A. Laboulb^ne, tom. cit. p. c.). 
Tettigia orni, L., and Cicadetta adusta, Hag., in Hungary ; G. v. Hor- 
vath, Term, fiizetek, 1877, p. 93. 
Cicada putnami, sp. u., P. R. Uhler, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. iii. p. 455, 
Colorado, Utah. 
Oercopid.e. 
Aphrophora. Notes on the Italian species ; F. Vismara, Bull. Ent. 
Ital. ix. p. 297. 
Ptyelus. Observations on two divisions of the species, based on the 
bifurcation (lineatus, spumarius, &c.) or non-bifurcation {exclamationis, 
&c.) of the third sector nerve after its anastomosis with the second, 
resulting in the suggestion that some of the varieties of spumarius may 
