TERMITIDAS — PSOOIDiE. 
InSi 259 
Eutermes forssarum , p. 143, and meadii , p. 144, spp. nn., Scudder, l. c. 
fossil at Florissant. 
Embody. 
Wood-Mason, J. A Contribution to our Knowledge of the Embiidce, 
a Family of Orthopterous Insects. P. Z. S. 1883, pp. 628-634, 
pi. lvi. 
The author discovered numerous larvae (apparently of Oligotoma 
saundersi , VVestw.) living in society under bricks at Jubbulpore, in July, 
1879; all had the anal parts asymmetric, and he considers they were all 
males. In October, near Calcutta, he found an insect (apparently 0. 
michaeli, McLach.), utterly without wings, and also without asymmetry. 
This he considers a perfect $ , and the only indication of that sex hither- 
to published, and is of opinion that the $ in the Embiidoa is always 
apterous. The abdomen in this consists of ten abdominal ventral 
tergites, but the 10th is hidden under the overlapping 9th. Between 
the 8th and 9th tergites, there is a large membranous whitish space, and in 
it is an aperture, which is considered to be the genital opening. Winged 
males of 0. saundersi were afterwards captured, and in these he con- 
siders the genital aperture must lie behind the 9th tergite, and the 
anal segments and appendages are strongly asymmetric. The neuration 
of the wings is largely detailed, and what is considered the true, sub- 
costal nervure, in a somewhat rudimentary condition, but coalescing with 
the costal, is especially mentioned, former ideas on the homologies of 
neuration being erroneous. Finally, these insects are considered as 
undoubtedly true Orthoytera ; and form the lowest, or lowest but one, of 
a series that includes Acridioidea , Locustidce , &c., and have no- near 
relationship to the Perlidai on the one hand, nor to the Termitidoa on 
the other. Figs. 1-3, w r ith details, concern the neuration ; figs. 4 & 5 
represent the abdomen of 0. saundersi, above and beneath ; fig. 6, the 
abdomen of the 5 of 0 ■ michaeli beneath. 
Embia antiqua, Pictet. Remarks on this amber insect by H. Lucas, 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) iii. p. xxvi. 
Embia latreillii , Rambur, found at the base of the leaves of a Cycas, 
from Madagascar, received at Paris ; the larva described ; the latter lives 
in long silken galleries, open at either end ; the perfect insect has also 
the power of spinning web : id. 1. c. p. cvi. 
Oligotoma insularis , sp. n., McLachlan, Ann. N. II. (5) xii. p. 227, 
Hawaiian Islands (and Antigua ?). 
PsoClDiE. 
Aaron, S. Frank. Description of new Psocidce in the Collection of 
the American Entomological Society. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. xi. 
' . pp. 37-40, pi. ix. 
In addition to the new species, the European Psocus 6-punctatus, L., 
is noticed as occurring near Philadelphia. 
