32 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
Taenioid Astodes of North American Birds, a publication of 
the Smithsonian Institution, U.S.A. This is a highly tech- 
nical work, full of useful information for the advanced sci- 
entist. 
The Victorian Naturalist, April and May numbers. 
Memoirs of the National Museum, Melbcurne, No. 3, 
contains two articles on ‘‘A collection of sub-fossil bird and 
marsupial remains from King Island, Bass Strait’’ and ‘“‘The 
existing species of the genus Phascolomys,’’ by Baldwin 
Spencer and J. A. Kershaw. 
The Geelong Naturalist. March 1910. This number 
contains an article by our President, Mr. Froggatt, entitled, 
“A Naturalist’s Notes in the Solomon Islands.’’ 
“Locusts in Australia and Other Countries,’’ and ‘The 
House-Fly and the Diseases it Spreads,’’ are the titles of two 
short papers by Mr. Froggatt, by whom they were donated. 
Mr. D. G. Stead, presented a pamphlet, of which he was 
the author, entitled, “‘Cultivating the Snapping Turtle of 
Japan.” 
NOTES ON KIRBY’S CATALOGUE OF THE 
ORTHOPTERA. 
By W. W. Froggatt, FL.) 
99 ) 
Tue third and last volume of W. IF. Kirby’s Catalogue of 
the Orthoptera has just come to hand from the trustees of 
the British Museum (Natural History), and only one who has 
done catalogue work can grasp the amount of labour that 
this veteran entomologist has put into these volumes. 
This volume contains a list of the short-horned locusts 
or grasshoppers (Locustidae) insects, important from an eco- 
nomic standpoint, because all the true plague locusts of the 
world fall into this division. In going through this list one is 
struck with the fact that the locusts of Australasia have no 
affinities with those of the New World, none of the American 
genera except the cosmopolitan Faratettia and <Acrydiwmn 
being represented here. 
There are 143 species recorded from Australia and these 
are distributed over 42 genera, 20 of which are peculiar to 
Australia whilst 16 are common to Africa, Australia, the 
