THE GENERAL SUBJECT. FORFICULID^E. 
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mon origin from a hypothetical Thysanuran type, and their almost im- 
mediate branching off into Metabola and Ametabola. The definitions of 
external anatomy are very full, and the multitudinous figures on the very 
numerous plates help greatly to elucidate them. 
Pancic, J. Orthoptera in Serbia hucdum detecta. Belgrade : 1883, 8vo, 
172 pp. 
Not seen by Recorder. According to a notice in Le Nat. v. p. 334, it 
is entirely in the vernacular, and drawn up on the plan of Brunner’s 
“ Prodromus.” 
Picaglta, L. Contribuzione alio studo degli Ortotteri del Modenese. 
Atti Soc. Nat. Modena, 1883. 
Not seen by Recorder. A list of 44 species. (Of. Bull. Ent. Ital. xv. 
p. 190.) 
Targioni-Tozzetti, A. Ortotteri agrari. Florence- Rome : 1882. 
Not seen by Recorder. The abbreviated title of an official report 
in the “ Annali di Agricoltura, pubblicati dal Miuistero di agricol. indus. 
e comm.” (Cf. Bull. Ent. Ital. xv. pp. 198 & 199. Reviewed by Finot 
in Lo Nat. v. p. 2G3.) 
A list of 20 species, of various families, from Rouge-Cloitre, in Bel- 
gium, is given by De Bormans in O.R. ent. Belg. xxvii. pp. xx.-xxiii. 
A list of about 40 species (some new) of all families taken in Calabria 
in 1876 is given by A. Costa in Atti Acc. Nap. ix. No. 4, pp. 51 & 52. 
Notes on the sternal muscles of various Orthoptera (and Neuroptera) 
by Constantiu Luke are given in Jen. Z. Nat. xvi. pp. 531-533. 
Targioni-Tozzetti’s notes on the male anal appendages of saltatory 
Orthoptera [cf. Zool. Rec. xix. Ins. p. 271], abstracted and translated in 
J. R. Micr. Soc. (ii.) iii. p. 206. 
Forficulih®. 
Bormans, A. de. Etude sur quelques Forficulaires nouveaux ou peu 
connus, pr6ced6e d’un tableau synoptique des genres de cette famille. 
Ann. Ent. Bolg. xxvii. pp. 59-90, pis. ii. & iii. 
The “tableau synoptique” (“ Divisio generum”) gives the characters 
of 27 genera, none new, but some are used in a restricted sense. Condy- 
lopalama and Typholabia , Scudder, are considered very doubtful, based 
upon larvae. 22 species are noticed, one-half new. There are notes (and 
figures) on the following known species, viz. : — Anisolabis laticentris, 
Phil. (p. 62, fig. 3), Brachylabis chilensis, Blanch, (p. 65, fig. 5), Mecomera 
brunnea , Serv. (p. 71, fig. 10), Labia chelidui'oides, Borm. (p. 74, fig. 12), 
L. rotundata , Scud. (p. 75, fig. 13), Ancistrogaster luctuosa. Stal (p. 83), 
Forjicula bicuspis , St il (p. 85, fig 19), F. lugubris , Dohrn (p, 87, fig. 21), 
Anechura ancylura , Dohrn (p. 88, fig. 22). 
Forjicula orsinii , Gen6, noticed by Costa from Calabria ; Atti Acc. Nap. 
ix. No. 4, p. 38, pi., fig. 10. 
