ADDENDA.
The following books and papers dealing with Australian insects have been overlooked, or have appeared since this book has been in course of preparation.
(1) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera, Vol. II. Orthoptera Saltatoria, Part I. Achetidae and Phascognuridae 1906. W. F. Kirby.
This is the second volume of the Catalogue already noticed on page 14, and deals with crickets and long-horned grasshoppers. A few alterations are made, viz.: Gryllus servillei, Sauss., is a synonym of Gryllus commodus, Walker; and the species of Ephippitytha 32-guttata figured by me in the Agricultural Gazette, N.S.W., 1904, is, Kirby says, a new species which he calls E. froggatti.
(2) “A Revision of the Cicindelidae (Coleoptera) of Australia,” by T. G. Sloane (Pro. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 1906). In this paper all the species formerly placed in the Genus Tetracha are now placed in the Genus Megacephala. In a supplementary paper in the same volume Sloane records Tricondyla aptera, Oliver, a tree hunting tiger beetle described from New Guinea as also a native of Cape York, North Queensland.
(3) “Notes on the Genus Leptops, with descriptions of new species,” by A. M. Lea (Annales Soc. Ent. Belg. 1906). This is a typical group of Australian weevils. The author notices all the described species, and describes 27 new ones.
(4) “A list of the Libellulidae (Dragon Flies) of Australia,” by J. G. O. Tepper (Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust. 1899). This paper, based upon a collection of dragon flies sent to France to Rene Martin, for identification, gives a quantity of information about the names and distribution of Australian species.
(5) “Les Odonates du Continent Australien,” by Rene Martin (Memoires Soc. Zool. France, 1901). This is a very fine paper on the dragon flies recorded from Australia.
(6) Descriptions of new dragon flies. In the Proceedings of the Linnean Society N.S.W. 1906, R. J. Tillyard has contributed four papers, in which a number of described species are identified and recorded for the first time from Australia; while a number of new species have been figured and described.
(7) “A Revision of the Thynnidae,” by Roland C. Turner (Pro. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 1907). This is part I. of an important Monograph of these remarkable flower wasps peculiar in having wingless females. The author in this paper deals with the Sub-family Diamminae and part of the Sub-family Thynninae, describing a number of new species.
(8) On page 382 a very large gall is mentioned formed by a coccid obtained from Tennant’s Creek, Central Australia. This insect will probably come in the Genus Cystococcus formed by Fuller (Trans. Ent. Soc. London 1899), for the reception of a species he called Cystococcus echiniformis.