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LOCUSTIDjE, acrydiid.e. 
A few species (determined only generically) from the N. Pacific Rail¬ 
way are noticed by Bruner, in Canad. Ent. xvii. p. 19. 
Ephippiger oudryanus , Finot & Bonnet, fully described and figured ; 
Bonnet & Finot, Rev. Moutp. (3) iv. pp. 351-356, pi. vii. figs. 1-7. 
New species 
Epihippigei'a pellucida , Bolivar, Le Nat. vii. p. 116, and serrata , p. 117, 
Portugal ; E. innocentii, Finot & Bonnet, Rev. Montp. (3) iv. p. 345, 
pi. xvi. figs. 8-13, Tunis. 
Platycleis umbilicata , Costa, Bull. Ent. Ital. xvi. p. 242, Sardinia. 
Peinacrida armiger , Colenso, Tr. N. Z. Inst. xvii. p. 155, New Zealand. 
Eugaster bloyeti, Lucas, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) v. p. xci., Kondoa, E. 
Africa. 
Acrydiidjl 
Acrydium per egrinum in immense swarms at Caraccas ; A. Ernst, Ent. 
Nacbr. xi. p. 7. 
Destruction occasioned by “Locusts ’ 5 (probably Acrydium arnericanum ) 
in Mexico and Central America ; A. S. Packard, Am. ^Nat. xix. pp. 1105 
& 1106. 
Chimarocephalci viridifasciata, De Geer, appearing in numbers in mid¬ 
winter in the State of New York, but not considered to be a cause for 
alarm ; Lintner, Second Rep. Ins. N. York, pp. 187-198, with numerous 
woodcuts of it and other injurious species. 
A list of about 40 species (some new, some unnamed), collected by 
Hagen & Hensbaw along the line of the N. Pacific Railway in 1882, is 
given by L, Bruner, in Canad. Ent. xvii. pp. 10-18. 
Bolivar’s “ Pirgomorfinos ” [cf. Zool. Rec. xxi. Ins. p. 292] reviewed by 
Finot, Le Nat. vii. p. 46. 
Finotia spinicollis, Bonnet, fully described and figured ; Bonnet & 
Finot, Rev. Montp. (3) iv. pp. 333-340, pi. xvi. figs. 1-7. 
Dericorys millieri, Finot, fully described and figured ; iid. t. c. pp. 
223-230, pi. vii. figs. 7-14. 
Stenobothrus lucasi , Brisout, redescribel and figured ; Bormans, Ann. 
Mus. Genov. (2) ii. pp. 105-107. 
Brongniart, Bull. Soc. Rouen, 1885, institutes the family PaIceacridioidea, 
and places therein the following Carboniferous fossils, mostly from Com- 
mentry, viz. : CEdischia , g. n., p. 58, type figured as (E. williamsonii , 
pi. i. fig. 3; Sthenaropoda , g. n., p. 59, type figured as S.fischeri, pi. i. 
fig. 4; Protogryllacris , g. n., ibid. ; Sthenarocera, g. n., ibid., type figured as 
8. pachytyloides, pi. i. figs. 1 & 2 ; Caloneura, g. n., ibid. Here also he 
places Macrophlebium Jiollebeni, Gold. 
New species :—- 
Trimerotropis cceruleipennis, Bruner, Canad. Ent. xvii. p. 10, N, Pacific 
Railway, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, 
