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THE ORTHOPTERAN GENUS HIPPISCUS, by Samuel H. Scudder. From 

 Psyche, June, 1892, pp. 265-274; July, '1892, pp. 285-288; August, 1892, 

 pp. 301-304; September, 1892, pp. 317-320; October, 1892, pp. 333-336; 

 November, 1892, pp. 347-350; December, 1892, pp. 359~3 6 3- 



COLEOPTEROLOGICAL NOTICES, iv, by Thos. L. Casey. From Annals 

 of the New York Academy of Sciences, vi, pp. 360-712. 



COMMON INJURIOUS INSECTS OF KANSAS, by Vernon L. Kellogg, Uni- 

 versity of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan., 1892, pp. viii, 126, 61 figs. 



NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED 

 IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 

 Aegeria rubristigma D. S. Kellicott; Insect Life, v, p. 84, Ohio. 



ARACHNIDA. 



Epeiridae : n. gen. and species, Keyserling and Marx, Die Spinnen 

 Amerikas, iv, pp. 1-208. 



ORTHOPTERA. 



Hippiscus, 20 n. sp., Sticthippus n. subg., Scudder, Psyche, 1. c, 



COLEOPTERA. 



Rhynchophora: numerous new sp. and gen., Casey, Ann. N. Y. Acad. 

 Sci. vi, pp. 360-712. 



A STREAM near Tucson, Ariz., petrifies all soft substances thrown into 

 it. It is in the great Colorado potato beetle belt, and at the time of their 

 migrations thousands of them strike the water and are converted into 

 stone. American Farmer. 



Mr. H. DEVAUX has been making interesting experiments on the sense 

 of taste in ants. Among other results he has found that Lasiiis flavus, 

 while fond of sugar, dislikes saccharine. The ants swarmed around sugar 

 laid out for them, but turned away from saccharine as soon as they tasted 

 It. Even sugar became unpleasant to them when it was mixed with sac- 

 charine. It seems, therefore, that sweetness is not the only quality which 

 attracts them to sugar. Nature. 



