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Psyche 8:168, 1897.

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BRUNNER'S GENUS METALEPTEA.
LINX~, Syst. nat,, ed. xii, I, ii, 692 (1767), placed in Acrida (as a division of Gryllus) the species nasutus, turritus, and brevicornis. Fabricius, Syst. entom., 279 (1775) substi- tuted Truxalis (as a. distinct genus) for Acridfl, placing in it the species nasutus (with turritus as variety) and brevicornis, the identical species and those only employed by Linnfe. Truxalis alone came into general 0
use; but Stal, Rec. Orthopt., i (18731, first separated the above species into distinct genera, placing in Acrida among others the species turrita (96) and nasuta (99) and in Tryxalis the single species brevicornis (104';. Brunner (Rev. eyst. Orthopt. 118, 1893) uses Tryxalis for the species placed by Linnfi and ~tal in Acrida, and proposes Metaleptea for 0
brevicornis, but Stal was first on the ground, and Brunner's name must fall as superfluous. This conclusion was also reached by McNeil in his recent Revision of the Tryxalinae (see Proc. Uav, acad, nat. sc., vi, 211.)
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AMOSIA PLEXIPPUS IN AUSTRALIA.
The South Australian Register of Sept.
23, 1897, contains some notes from the ento- mologist's department of the South Austra- lian museum which announce, among other
things, thegift ofl',the naturalized American butterfly, ~aiais erippus, whose caterpillar or larva feedsexclusively on plants of the fami- ly Asclepiadne, which were, however, origi- nally absent from this part of Australia. Its establishment here, therefore, depends mainly upon that of a Cape plant, the ' cotton bush' (Gomphocarpum fruticosum). Both
plant and butterfly are now widely distributed in South Australia. "
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