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 The scales ok lepidoj-teka. By M. B. Thomas. 



The kgeria ok cextkal Ohio. By I). S. Kellicott. 



Some ixsects ok Tasmania. By F. M. Webster. 



[ABSTRA("r.] 



Although occupying a position in the southern hemisphere similar as to 

 latitude to the northern half of Indiana and southern Michigan, the insect 

 fauna more nearly resembles that of southern Texas, being strikingly semi- 

 tropical. In the vicinity oi Hobart, during the last of January, a season 

 corresponding to our August, Phytophagus coleoptera, especially of the 

 C'hryeomelidif and Rhynchophora, were very abundant, while carniv- 

 orous species, though strikingly poorly represented, included several Coc- 

 cinellidfe and one Lepidopterous species— a rare object in any country. A 

 noticeable feature, but one peculiar to island insects, was the lack of flying 

 species along the coast. 



A single butterfly, swift and strong of wing, was the only capture made in 

 Lepidoptera. Another feature of island insects was noticed in the prepon- 

 derance of species of a bronzy or yellowish color. The young euculyptus 

 trees afford a rich field for collectors during the summer season. 



Early published i;EFEJtExci;s to ix.iuriois ixsects. By F. M. Webster. 



The coxtixuity of the germ klasm in vertebrates. By Carl H. Eigex- 



MAxx. Published in part in the Journal of Morphology, pp. 481-492, 



plate XXXI, 1892, under the title " On the precocious segregation of 



the sex-cells in Micrometrus aggretatus Gibbons." 



The theory of the continuity of the germ plasm as finally formulated by 



Weismann assumes that "there is not only a continuity between the 



ovum which gives rise to parent and the ovum which gives rise to the oflf- 



spring " but in the successive generations between the ovum which pro- 



