1882] 215 



Les Cynipides, Ire partie. — La generation alternante chez les Cynipides par 

 Dr. H. Adler, de Schleswig, traduit et annote par J. Lichtenstein (de Montpellier) : 

 suivi de la Classification des Cynipides d'apres le Dr. Gr. Mayr, de Yienne. Mont- 

 pellier; C. Coulet: Paris; J. B. Bailliere et fils : Bordeaux; Feretetfils: Berlin; 

 R. Friedlander et fils. 1881 : pp. i — xv and 1 — 141 : 8vo, with 2 coloured plates. 



Dr. Adler's well-known theory of the alternation of generation in Cynipidce is of 

 extreme interest to all scientific entomologists, but the treatise in the German 

 language in which it was propounded (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., xvii, p. 259), is not in 

 many hands in this country, and this translation of it into French by M. Lichtenstein 

 will prove to be a real boon to students in England as well as in France, and will 

 doubtless conduce to extended observation and experiment. The translation has been 

 made with the sanction of Dr. Adler, who has also aided in its production by giving 

 the original large folded coloured plates, without which, as Lichtenstein says, it 

 would have been difficult to comprehend some points. In the " Introduction " (from 

 which an extract will be given) M. Lichtenstein avows his adhesion to Dr. Adler's 

 theory, and interprets the facts observed as being in accordance with his own ideas 

 of the biology of Aphides, which have frequently been adverted to in this Magazine. 



Part 2 of the work is to contain a description of new species found in the 

 South of France. 



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Professor C. G. A. Giebel, the successor to Burmeister in the direction of the 

 Museum, and professorship, at Halle, died on the 15th November last. He was 

 born at Quedlinburg, 13th September, 1820. His writings were very versatile, 

 but probably he was best known as a palaeontologist, and many papers on fossil 

 insects were written by him. Outside palaeontology he published much on the 

 Bird-Lice (Mallophaga) which he made his speciality, and in 1874 he produced 

 an enormous folio work, with 20 coloured plates, on these creatures, under the title 

 " Insecta Epizoa," which, to a great extent, should be regarded (as the title-page 

 indicated) as a posthumous work by Nitzsch, edited by Griebel, but with very much 

 original matter by the latter. In journalism he was known as the chief editor, for 

 many years, of the " Zeitschrift fur die gesammten Naturwissenschaften," which 

 holds a respectable position amongst Natural History journals in Germany. 



Jules Putzeys. We regret to announce the death, at Brussels, on the 2nd of 

 January, of this prominent Coleopterist, in the 73rd year of his age. Putzeys held 

 high official government appointments in Belgium, and at his death was general 

 honorary secretary to the Minister of Justice, in addition to other honours, not the 

 least of which was that of " Trustee " of the Belgian Museum of Natural History. 

 He was especially a Carabologist, and his first published entomological paper related 

 to this group, and appeared in the Stettin Zeitung for 1845, and that journal con- 

 tains many of his somewhat voluminous writings, almost down to date, though he 



