272 Ins . 
ORTHOPTERA. 
Phorticeca , p. 212, a “division” of Zetobora, for Z. cicatricosa , Burm., 
&c. 
Schizopila , g. n., p. 217, fop Blatta fissicollis, Serv. 
iVew species : — 
Ischnoptera translucida , p. 85, N. America. 
Blatta otomia, p. 104, Mexico. 
Blabera fraterna , p. 241, S. America (and Cuba, ?), and deplanata, 
p. 250, Cuba. 
Monastria angulata , p, 257, Bahia, and semialata, p. 258, S. America. 
According to indications, diagnoses of many of the species were pub- 
lished in R. Z. 1862 and 1864.] 
Mantidas. 
Borre, A. Preudiiomme de. Liste. des Mantides du Mus6e royal 
d’Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. Ann. Ent. Belg. xxvii. pp. 60-81. 
82 species (1 new) are noticed, according to Saussure’s arrangement. 
The local indications are valuable. 
. La feuille qui se transforme en insecte. C.R. ent. Belg. xxvii. 
pp. cxliii.-cxlv. 
palls attention to superstitions with regard to Chceradodis rliombicollis , 
Latr., and states that a recent Belgian consul at Quito, of some scientific 
knowledge, was convinced of the existence of such a metamorphosis ; 
woodcuts of imago and larva. 
Miomantis menelihi , Bormans. The male described; De Bormans, 
Ann. Mus. Genov, xvi. p. 705. 
Curious egg-cases from Delagoa Bay, considered to pertain to an insect 
of this family, are remarked on by Pascoe, McLachlan, & Wood-Mason, 
P. E. Soc. 1883, p. 35, with woodcuts. 
Mantis religiosa , L.. at Faverney, Haute-Saone ; M. Girard, Bull. Soc. 
Ent. Fr. (6) iii. p. lxxii. 
Leptocala , g. n., Gerstacker, MT. Yorpomm. xiv. p. 91. Type, L. 
gracillima y sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 92, Cameroons. 
New species : — 
Trachodes oxycephala , p. 77, Ogowe, and irrorata , p. 79, Gold Coast, 
Gerstacker, l. c. 
Humbertiella heterochroa , id. 1. c. p. 80, Cameroons. 
Gonypeta modesta , id. 1. c. p. 82, Cameroons ?. 
JSuchomena casta , id. 1. c. p. 83, Fernando Po. 
Miomantis scabricollis, p. 84, Gold Coast, and cephalotes, p. 85, Came- 
roons, id. 1. c. 
Polyspilota picta, p. 88, Cameroons, and validissima, p. 89, Gold Coast, 
id. 1. c. 
Danuria elongata, Borre, l. c. p. 76, Guinea ; D. buchholzi , Gerstacker, 
l. c. p. 93, Gold Coast. 
