Amosia Plexippus in Australia
International Journal of
0 A. SMITH & SONS , Z69 PEARL STREET, New York , USA
began in January, 1897, and will continue through three years. The subscription price (payable in advance)is $5.00 per volume, or $.oo per year, postpaid. Numbers are issued on the first day of each month. Libraries and individuals generally ordering through subscription agencies (which only take annual subscriptions will please notice that it is cheaper to subscribe for the entire volume at once directly of us. Any early volume can be had for $5., unbound. Address Psyche, Cambridge, Mass.
-
BRUNNER’S
GENUS METALEPTEA.
LNf2 Syst. nat., ed. xii, I, ii, 692 (767),
placed in Acrida (as a division of Gryllus)
the species nasutus, turritus, and brevicornis.
Fabricius, Syst. entom., 279 (I775)
substituted Truxalis (as a distinct genus) for
Acrida, placing in it the species nasutus
(with turritus as va’iety) and brevicornis
the identical species and those only employed
byLinn6. Truxalis alone came into general
use; but Stal, Rec. Orthopt., (x873), 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 (o4).
Brunner (Rv. syst. Orthopt. IxS, 893) uses
Tryxalis for the species placed by Linn and
Stal in Acrida, and proposes Metaleptea for
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. Day. acad. nat. sc., vi, 2Ix.)
S. tt. Scudder.
AMOSIA PLEXIPPUS IN AUSTRALIA.
The South Australian Register of Sept.
23, 897, contains some notes from the
entomologist’s department of the South
Australian museum which announce, among other
things, the gift of" the naturalized American
butterfly, Danais erippus, whose caterpillar
or larvafeedsexclusivelyon plants of the
family Asclepiadae, which were, however,
originally 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.
A NE If V0L UME
0F
PS_rCIIE
o,6
I
IIANUFACTURERS AND I]II’ORTERS OF
Advance s in
Virol og y
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
ht p:/ www.hindawi.com
Submit
your manuscr ipts
http://www.hindawi.com
Research International
Stem Cells
International
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
ht p:/ www.hindawi.com
Zoology
International Journal of
Journal of
Signal
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
ht p:/ www.hindawi.com
Transduction
Research International
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
ht p:/ www.hindawi.com
Anatomy
Research International
Research International
Advances in
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
ht p:/ www.hindawi.com
Enzyme Research
Journal of
Genomics
Journal of
Nucleic
Acids
The Scientiifc
World Journal (...truncated)