P H ASM ATIDiE, GRYLLID2E. 
Ins . 278 
Phasmatid^. 
Brongniart, Charles. Sur ua nouvel insecte fossile des terrains car- 
boniferes de Commentry (Allier), et sur la faune entomologique 
du terrain houillier. Bull. Soc. G6ol. (3) xi. pp. 142-151, pi. iv. 
Concerns a gigantic fossil insect, 0.25 metre long, which the author 
minutely describes, proposing for it the name Titanophasma fayoli 
[cf. Zool. Rec. xix. Ins. p. 273]. The memoir ends with a table of all 
the described species of fossil Devonian and Carboniferous insects. On 
the plate, Anisomorpha pardalina, Westw. (fig. 1), and Phibolosoma apol - 
lonius, Westw. (fig. 2), two recent species, are figured for comparison. 
An additional note is to be found at l. c. pp. 240 & 241. [Cf. also Bull. 
Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) iii., pp. xviii. & lvi., Sci. Goss. xix. p. 45, Ann. N. H. (5) 
xi. pp. 71 & 72 ; and Scudder, Science, i. pp. 96 & 96, with figure.] 
. Aper£u sur les insectes fossiles en g6n6ral, et observations sur 
quelques insectes “des terrains houilliers de Commentry (Allier, 
France). Le Nat. v. pp. 266-268. 
Briefly commences with remarks on insect fossils in general, and 
those of Commentry in particular, and then details the characters (and 
circumstances under which the specimens were found) of the most 
gigantic of all insects, for which the author has proposed the generic terms 
Protophasma and Titanophasma. He is of opinion that in the Carboni- 
ferous age there was no distinction between Neuroptera and Orthoptera ) 
and he designates the fossil insects formerly placed under these Orders 
by the term “ Neurorthopteres ” ; furthermore, he considers that the 
Phasma-Yike old fossil insects, and some of Goldenberg’s so-called Palceo- 
dictyoptera, are allied, and he proposes for them the term “ Protophas- 
miens.’’ 
Bacillus rossii in the Loire inferieure, at Orleans, Fontainebleau, and 
Mans ; M. Girard, H. Lucas, & S. A. de Marseul, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 
(6) iii. pp. cxix. & cxx. (According to the index, these notes refer to B. 
gallicus , Chp., and not to rossii } F.) 
New species : — 
Bacillus trivittatus, p. 98, Gold Coast, huchliolzi ) p. 99, Cameroons, 
Gerstacker, MT. Vorpomm. xiv. 
Palophus minotaurus , id. 1. c. p. 100, Cold Coast. 
Tropidoderus iodomus , p. 33, pis. lxix. & lxx. figs. 2 & 3, and rhodomus f 
p. 35, pis. lxix. & lxx. fig. 1, McCoy, Prodr. Z. Yict. dec. vii., Victoria 
[1882]. 
Protophasma woodwardi , Brongniart, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) iii. p. xix., 
fossil in the Carboniferous of Commentry, France. 
Gryllim:. 
Korotneff, A. Entwicklung des Herzens bei Gryllotalpa. Zool. Anz. 
vi. pp. 687-690, diagrams. 
1883. [vol. xx.] 
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