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NEUROPTERA. 
on Megapodius freycineti and reinwardti ; L. sinuatus , p. 180, pi. vi. fig. 6, 
on M. freycineti and reinwardti. 
Tricliodectes pereyrinus , id. 1. c. p. 218, pi. vii. fig. 10, on Mycteria 
crumenifera ; T. meyeri, p. 222, pi. vii. fig. 13, on Antilope ?. 
Ancistrona gigas , Piaget, l. c. p. 152, pi. ix. fig. 1, on a Procellaria. 
Nirmus semiannulatus } id. 1. c. p. 15G, pi. ix. fig. 3, on Barita leuconota. 
Thysanoptera. 
Osborn, Herbert. Note on Thripidce y with descriptions of new species. 
Canad. Ent. xv. pp. 151-156. 
In the introductory portion, the author states that if these insects are 
ever carnivorous, it can only be exceptionally. Thrips tritici , Fitch, rede- 
scribed at p. 156. 
Portsch insky, J. Histoire naturelle d’un Thrips observe sur les 
feuilles de tabac en Bessarabie en 1882. Rev. mens. Ent. i. 
pp. 44-53. 
Concerns a species considered to be T. urticce , L., which appeared in 
enormous numbers on the tobacco in 1882. Full details of habits and 
transformations are given, and especially of the little-known nymph- 
stage. Three or four days after the deposition of the eggs, the larvae 
emerge, and the whole development to the winged state occupies only six 
to eight days. The author is of opinion that they only attack unhealthy 
plants. They are greatly preyed upon by Atari. 
New species : — - 
Phloeothrips nigra , Osborn, l. c. p. 154, Iowa. 
Chirothrips antennatus, id. ibid., Iowa. 
Thrips striata , id. 1. c. p. 155, Iowa. 
Tekmitid^. 
Romanis, Robert. Observation on the Termites of Rangoon. Ent. xvi. 
pp. 214 & 215. 
Stray notes on the habits of a species which was perhaps Termes tapro- 
banes , Wlk. They were devoured both by toads and by bats. 
Scudder, Samuel H. The Fossil White Ants of Colorado. P. Am. Ac. 
xix. pp. 133-145. 
Commences with a sketch of the known existing and fossil species. 6 
additional fossil species are described, 3 of which form a new genus. 
Calotermes castaneus , Burm., and C. marginipennis , Latr., in the 
Hawaiian Islands ; McLachlan, Ann. N. II. (5) xii. p. 227. 
Parotermes , g. n., Scudder, l. c. p. 135. Allied to Hodotermes , but the 
submarginal vein present. For P. insignis , p. 137, hageni, p. 139, and 
fodince i p. 141, spp. nn., fossil in the Florissant Tertiaries. 
Hodotermes (?) coloradensis, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 142, fossil at Florissant. 
