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Marsh., of which the left elytron is entirely red; a male example of 

 Ptinns bruiinms, Dft., with a round vesicle {Blase) on each elytron; one 

 of Melasowa cutireuni, Fb., which lias only the rudiment of an anterior 

 tarsus with the claw-segment; Adalia hipunctata, L., with the left 

 elytron var. lurhsti, the right var. jn-ind. In nine hundred examples of 

 Lfptinotarsii lO-Hneatd, Say, only three were abnormal. 



J. JozsA notes (1900, ' Kovartani Lapok,' p. 152, with 2 figures and 

 resu)ne 14) a monstrosity of Carabus Itonipei, Kust., collected at Dees. 

 The left posterior femur is very strongly thickened and divided into two 

 parts close to tlie apex ; from each of these parts arises a normal tibia; 

 on the upper tibia are arranged in a row the normal five tarsal seg- 

 ments ; on the under tibia there are only two tarsal segments, the 

 second of which is somewhat flat and pointed at the apex. 



Diptera. — J. J. Kieffer discusses the Claws and Arolia in the 

 Diptera (1900. " Ueber die Krallen und die Haftlappchen der Di- 

 ptereu," in Illustr. Zeitschr. fiir Entom., v. pp. 337-40. Plate). 



L. Weber notices the Diptera parasitic, &c., on Man and the other 

 "higher Mammalia") Abh. Ber. Ver. Naturk. Cassel., xlv. pp. 1-20 

 [? Sep.] . 



Hymenoptero, — W. Pospjelow contributes an article on the para- 

 sites of the Hessian Fly (Ctciduim/ia destructor) in Eussia(1900, Illustr. 

 Zeitschr. fiir Entom., 261-4 ; 6 figs.). 



BhynchotK. — W. W. Froggatt monographs the Australian Psyllidse 

 (1900, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 250-802 ; plates xi.-xiv.) ; 

 10 genera (3 new) and 25 species (18 new) are described. 



Economic EntomnUnjij. — W. W. Froggatt has lately published (1900) 

 a number of small pamphlets on Australian Insects, in the " Miscel- 

 laneous Publications " of the Department of Agriculture of New South 

 Wales, viz. : — 



(a) " Notes on AustraUan Coccidae," no. 858, 9 pp., 1 plate. 



(/i) " Plague Locusts." no. 363, 9 pp., 1 plate. 



(y) "The Hessian Fly {Cecidowyia destructor, Say) and allied 

 Grain Pests," no. 369. 6 pp., 1 plate. 



(3) "Insects living in Figs, with some account of Caprification," 

 no. 388, 10 pp., 1 plate. 



(e) " Insects and Birds," no. 387 ; 11 pp. 

 Also a pamphlet — which appears from negative evidence to be a sepa- 

 rate publication — on "Scale Insects that produce Lac"; 5 pp. and 

 1 plate. 



Fossil Kntomologij. — Herbert Goss. "The Geological Antiquity 

 of Insects." 2iid edition (Gurney & Jackson) ; 52 pp. Practically a 

 reprint of the useful first edition published twenty years ago, with a 

 preface embodying the more recent discoveries of Palaeozoic Insects. 

 Unfortunately tlie author lias been unable to discuss the vast mass of 

 information aneut fossil Kainozoic insects published within the last 

 decade by Scudder and others. 



G. W. K. 



