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17. OFVERSIGT AF KONGL. VETENSKAPS-AKADEMIENS FORHANDLIX- 

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 insect fauna of the Cameroons, iv. Catalogue of the Hemiptera gathered 

 by Yngve Sjostedt in northwest Cameroons, C. J. E. Haglund. 



18. MlTTHEILUNGEN DER SCHWEIZERISCHEN ENTOMOLOGISCHEN GK- 



SELLSCHAFT( Bulletin de laSocie'te' Entomologique Suisse), Schaffhausen, 

 ix, pt. 5. Dr. Standfuss' experiments on the influence of extreme tem- 

 peratures on butterflies, F. Ris. Continuation of Coleoptera Helvetia?. 

 Ibid., ix, pt. 6. The Papilionidae of North America in their relation 

 to those of the Old Worle, H. Christ. Review of the other N. American 

 Diurnals in their relation to those of the Old World, ibid. 



19. THE ZOOLOGICAL RECORD, volume the thirty-first, 1894, 8vo. Lon- 

 don, 1895. 



20. ANNALES DBS SCIENCES NATURELLES, ZOOLOGIE, T. xx, Nos. 4-6. 

 Male genital apparatus of the Hymenoptera (cont.), L. Bordas. 



21. LEPIDOPTERA INDICA, F. Moore, part xxiii (deals with part of grcup 

 Charaxina of the Nymphalinse). 



22. ARCHIVES ITALIENNES DE BIOLOGIE, Turin, xxiv, fasc. 2. The 

 weight of the cocoons of Bombyx niori, from the commencement of their 

 weaving to the birth of the moth, L. Luciana and L. Tarulli. [Brief ex- 

 tract from Atti della R. Accademia dei Georgofili, xviii, fasc. 2, 1895.] 



23. THE ENTOMOLOGIST. London, No. 391. On the vertical distri- 

 bution of the Rhopalocera of the Alps, \V. Harcourt-Bath. 



24. THE AMERICAN NATURALIST, December, 1895. The classification 

 of the Lepidoptera on larval characters, H. G. Dyar. Steinmatoiiilus as 

 an ordinal type, O. F. Cook. 



25. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA, second series, 

 1895-96 [Extract] Presidential Address: Practical Entomology, J. 

 Fletcher. 



26. BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA, Zoology, part 124. Arachnida- 

 Araneidea, pp. 145-160, O. P. Cambridge. Coleoptera, vol. iv, pt. 6, pp. 

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 61 and 62, H. Druce. Rhyncota-Homoptera, vol. ii, pp. 89-112, pi. 7, 

 \V. W. Fowler. 



27. Frail Children of the Air: Excursions into the World of Butterflies. 

 By Samuel Hubbard Scudder. Houghton, Mifrlin & Co., Boston and 

 New York. Price $1.50. The book is composed of a number of essays 

 on butterflies under many different titles, such as " Butterflies in Disguise; 

 a Study in Mimicry." " Deceptive Devices among Caterpillars." " But- 

 terflies as Botanists." " Butterfly Sounds." " Nests and other Structures 



