ALBERT

Description: In 1936 five specimens of the beautiful beetle Cicindela saetigera Horn (fig. 1) were collected by Prof. Dr. L. G. M. Baas Becking and Dr. J.\nReuter on their journey in Australia and kindly given to the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie at Leiden. As this rather uncommon species was new to the collections of the Museum I studied the literature on the species in more detail, especially after Prof. Baas Becking had told me a few details concerning its life conditions.\nOur specimens, all males, were caught at the following dates and localities: 4 specimens, March 27, 1936. Lake Bumbunga, N. from Bay St. Vincent, S. Australia. 1 specimen, April 15, 1936. Lake Crosbie, SW. from Mildura, N.W.Victoria.\nFirst of all I can state, that in most of the papers dealing with C. saetigera Horn there is an indication of the locality: Yorke\'s Peninsula, but no further details about the exact locality are communicated, except by Sloane (1906, p. 343) : "Wallaroo, on the shores of Spencer\'s Gulf".\nConcerning the above-mentioned localities of our specimens Prof. Baas Becking told me that he had found these beetles only on the saltlakes, where they were running and jumping on the bright white saltcrust which covers the greater part of those lakes. They prey on ants there, which live on and under the saltcrust; a rather strange habitat for insects.\nAfter Prof. Baas Becking, who investigated these saltlakes thoroughly, the beetles form an interesting link in the local food-cycle therein, which begins with the bacterial life beneath the salt-crust and ends with some lizards and birds of which no animal enemies seem to exist. More details on

Description: Some time ago when examining some Batocerini (Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) I was struck by the strange pattern of Apriona fasciata Rits. (cf. Ritsema, Notes Leyden Mus., vol. 20, 1898, p. 87) of which species our Museum possesses a single female specimen, the unique type (fig. 1). Especially the "five naked transverse bands" puzzled me because no indication of such a zebra-pattern is found in any other known species of the genus Apriona.\nExamining the specimen very carefully I found out that these transverse bands were artificially produced by removing the yellowish scales from the elytra with a sharp object the marks of which are clearly seen under the microscope. This proves

Description: The family Tettigoniidae consists of the long-horned grasshoppers with a more or less distinct sword-shaped ovipositor and with a distinct auditory organ at the proximal part of the fore tibiae.\nHandlirsch unites into this family 14 subfamilies of which the Pterophyllinae only are considered here.\nConcerning the name Tettigoniidae the opinions were diverging, but in recent literature this name is generally used. In the 10th edition of Linn\xc3\xa9\'s Systema Naturae (1758) a number of species of the genus Gryllus are united into the subgenus Tettigonia. This subgenus was considered as a genus by Fabricius and it would have been logical if he had kept the Linnean name Tettigonia for it. Fabricius, however, mixed up the Linnean names and called the here-mentioned genus: Locusta. This name has for many years been considered as the correct name of the genus, and Tettigonia L. was used for another group of insects.\nSt\xc3\xa5l (1874) placed Tettigonia L. into the synonymy of Locusta F. as both names refer to the same group of species. Linn\xc3\xa9 (1758), however, had given the name Locusta to a group of short-horned grasshoppers; moreover Tettigonia L. has priority over Locusta F. as it had been established earlier. Thus the name Tettigonia L. is the eldest in the group and therefore should be considered to be the type genus and the name of the family should be derived from it.\nAs to the type species of the genus Tettigonia L. Karny (1907) gives a survey of all Linnean species in the genus Gryllus, Tettigonia, and shows that successively all species have been placed into other (new) genera, leaving viridissima L. as the only species in the genus Locusta F. (St\xc3\xa5l

Description: TWO NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS APRIONA CHEVR. (CERAMBYCIDAE, LAMIINAE, BATOCERINI) Apriona hageni nov. spec. \xe2\x99\x82 (fig. 1).\nLength 32 mm, breadth at the shoulders 9.2 mm, length of the antennae 56 mm.\nLocality: Sumatra (Tandjong Morawa, Serdang, N. E. Sumatra, Dr. B.\nHagen). Holotype.\nClosely related to Apriona cylindrica Thoms., more slender. Thorax less compressed, anterior transverse furrow less distinct and curved. Elytra almost parallel, with light sepia-brown pubescence and ornated with many milky white spots, which are irregularly spread over the surface. Shoulders not armed with a tooth.\nBasal quarter of the elytra with black, shining granules, which diminish from the shoulder towards the suture, where they are nearly absent. Apex truncate. Sutural angle with a thorn. Scutellum posteriorly Fig. 1. Apriona hageni nov. spec. truncate with rounded angles. Type \xe2\x99\x82. Natural size Antennae dark brown with greyish pubescence. Legs dark brown with yellowish grey pubescence.