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Eretnaphilii. Chiropus should be united to Chiropacha. Miopterix should
be placed among the Thespites. Hymenopa was included among the Acanthopsites
by mistake; it should be ranged with the Harpacites. Gonatista
cubensis, Sauss., = Mantisphryganoides, Serv.; Coptopteryx daraziana, Sauss.,
= Mantis crenatieollis, Blanch.; Cardioptera translucida, Sauss., = C vitrea,
Burm.
SAUSSURE (Melanges Orthopterologiques) gives a monograph of the Old-
World species of this family, in amplification of his previous paper in the
Mitth. schw. ent. Ges. After prefacing his memoir by considerations of the
characters, he gives the following table as an outline of his system:—
A. Corpus et pedes non appendiculata. Antennae in utroque sexu simplices,
setaceae vel pilosellae. (Pedes simplices scilicet teretes vel unicarinati,
nee lobati, nee cristati. Vertex non conoideo-productus. Abdominis
thoracisque margines non lobati, genere Gonatisto excepto. Elytra
simplicia, marginibus integris.) NUDTPEDES.
a. Prothorax supra coxas antice dilatationem nullam efficiens, sed marginibus
parallelis, vel caput versus latius marginibus subflexuosis.
Orthoderii.
b. Pronotum supra coxas dilatationem ovatam efficiens, apice antieo attenuate
Mantii.
B. Pedes vel corpus appendiculata. (Pedes interdum lobati vel cristulati;
abdominis vel thoracis margines frequenter dilatati; vertex interdum
conoideo-productus; elytra interdum excisa marginibus sinuatis.)
LOBIPEDES.
a. Antennae in utroque sexu simplices, setaceae Harpagii.
b. Antennae plerumque in maribus pectinatae vel serratae; pedes plerumque
multicarinati Empusii.
On his three plates he figures numerous species, either entirely or with
regard to special characters. The New-World species are to be worked out
in the " Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amerique centrale," the
printing of which work was stopped for a time by the events of the war.
Empusa brachyptera. Maklin (CEfv. Fin. Soc. 1870, pp. 35, 36) notices
the occurrence of this species in Finland.
New genera :—
Parablepharis, Saussure, Mitth. schw. ent. Ges. iii. p. 222. Differs from
Phyllocrania in having the horn of the vertex short, pyramidal, and nearly
divided at the apex. Type P. kuhlii, De Haan.
Paraoxypilus, Saussure, I. c. p. 224. (Subtribe Mantites.) Supraanal
lamina elongate; head and thorax with spines; margins of the abdomen
dilated; female apterous. Two new species, noticed below.
Miomantis, Saussure, I. e. p. 225. Allied to Miopteryx. Sexes unequal;
elytra of the female equalling the abdomen, opaque; those of the male long
and membranaceous. Type M. forficata, Stoll.
Pseudomiopteryx, Saussure, I. c. Allied to Miopteryx. Body somewhat
short; front mucronate in the region of the inferior ocellus. Two new
species, noticed below.
Micromantis, Saussure, I. c. Allied to Archimantis. Cerci tubular, nor-