27 4j Ins . ORTHOPTERA. 
Homceogryllus xanthographus , Guerin. Remarks on a specimen from 
Abyssinia; H. Lucas, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) iii. p. xcv. 
Loccstidj:. 
Kraus, F. Beobachtung iiber das Zirpen der Hohlenheuschrecke ( Troglo - 
philus cavicola, Kollar). SB. z.-b. Wien, xxxiii. p. 15. 
The insect heard to stridulate in the breeding season in a cave near 
Gams, in Styria. 
C'onocephalus. Notes on a species captured in a greenhouse near Lon- 
don, with remarks on its habits (which were carnivorous) in confinement ; 
T. R. Billups, P. E. Soc. 1883, p. 1. Afterwards identified as Copiophora 
cornuta , De G. ; id. 1. c. p. 3. 
Phaneroptera falcata , Scop., captured in Cornwall; C. 0. Waterhouse 
& P. B. Mason, P. E. Soc. 1883, p. 31. 
Anabrus. L. Bruner gives additional notes on the “ Western Cricket”; 
Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm. iii. pp. 61-64. 
Brunner von Wattenwyl, Yerh. z.-b. Wien, xxxiii. pp. 247-250, notes 
the similarity of various species of Pterochroza to dead leaves, and in 
connection therewith notices (and figures the wings of) P. colorata , 
Serv., pi. xv. fig. 3, and deflorata (fig. 2), arrosa{ fig. 4), and infecta (fig. 5), 
Brunner. 
Myrmecophana , g. n., id. 1. c. p. 248 A minute (larval P) form mimicking 
ants. M. fallax , sp. n., ibid. pi. xvi. figs. 1 a-d. y Soudan. 
Mecopoda abbreviata , sp. n., Taschenberg, Z. Naturw. lvi. p. 184, 
Socotra. 
Ctenodecticus costulatus , sp. n., Costa, Atti Acc. Nap. (2) i. [1883] ; cf. 
Bull. Ent. Ital. xv. p. 332 [1884], Sardinia. 
Pcecilimon orbelicus, sp. n., Pancic, Orthop. Serb. 1883 {cf. ante, p. 269), 
Servia. 
Acridiid^. 
Bruner, Lawrence. The Rocky Mountain Locust in 1880 (pp. 8-20), 
and in Wyoming, Montana, &c., in 1881 (pp. 21-52). Rep. U. S. 
Ent. Comm. iii. 
. List of Known Species of Locusts in North America. L. c. 
pp. 53-61. 
Enumerates 273 described species of Acridiidce from north of Mexico. 
Packard, A. S., Jun. The Embryological Development of the Locust. 
Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm. iii. pp. 263-286, pi. xvi.-xxi. 
Concerns insects in general, and Caloptenus spretus in particular. It 
may be specially noted that the author combats Gegenbaur’s theory that 
wings are tracheal expansions, and agrees with Newport that the head of 
an insect is composed of four segments only. {Cf. also Am. Nat. xvii. 
pp. 1134-1138.) 
