Stpti.iiihei-()ct..lici- 1S.S3.I PSyCHR. 87 



serious. It is the progressive increase rather rich in tiiose species of Tortri- 



ot destroNers with the decrease of vie- cina which feed and hibernate entirelv 



tinis through successive niihl seasons within tiie stalks or roots of [)huits. 



tiiat is really to be dreaded. ■■ It is worthv of notice, that there 



"As a slight corroboration ot this are a \ erv few species which have 



view, I may mention, that while this ajjpeared nnal.ile to cope with severe 



tlistrict of country is comparativelv poor cold. Lobopliora viretata was tolera- 



in all the species ot which the larvae feed bh cmnmon here during the first three 



and hibernate in any exposed situation, or tour \ears of which I have been 



several species of Noctuae. of which \\riting. but after the first cold winter 



the larvae live underground, are always it liecame scarce, and has since almost 



abinidant. and the countr\ is actualh' disappeared." 



SALIV.ARY (iLAXD.S IN UEES. 



[Abstract ot'a dissLTtatio)i bv Paulus Schienienz.] 



in" Gi-;oii(;H dimmdck. cambridck. m.vss. 



Paulus Schiemenz' dissertation '-Uber not come from the \'entricle. as has been 



das herkommen iles futtersaftes und ilie often suppused. 'Fhe sali\ar\- glands 



speicheldriisen der biene" . . . [Rec. no. are next described, and their secretions 



3337] gives many interesting facts in the and histological structure discussed, in 



anatomy of the hone\-bee and of other the order introduced fur them by Sie- 



bees. The beginning of this paper is a bold. i. e.. as ••s\stem i. 11. 111. i\ and 



historical consideration of the subject. \." 



with a description of the digesti\e tract The gland of s\ stem i ( Meckel's su- 

 o^ Apis mellifica. in which the author pramaxillar\' gland) is proxided with a 

 follows Plateau's view that the pro\en- reservoir and discharges its strongly acid 

 tricidiis serves to arrest the too rapid secretion b\' openings, one <in each side 

 flow of the contents of the crop (oi' of the "Schhmdblattclicn" [hypophar\ iix 

 honey-stomach, as Schiemenz here ofSavigny]. This gland is absent in 

 terms it) into the ventricle. Following cjueens an<l drones. In six species of 

 tiie views of Leuckart. in whose labora- BoDibiis this sxstem is well de\eloped. 

 tory Schiemenz prepared this paper, the and the author tlescribes various modi- 

 author considers that the ileum of the fications in other bees, 

 bees, as ot insects in general, has no The glands of s\stem 11 ( Meckel'sglan- 

 other function than that of furnishing a dula sublingualis) are in the head, just 

 suitable c<inncction between ventiicle aboxe its lower or posterior chitinous 

 and rectum, and he decides that the walls, and are easiest prepared bv first 

 nutrient fluid used b\ liees to feed their remo\ ing s\stem i. and then the brain. 

 i|neen. lar\ae and drones sureK does The diflerent efferent ducts of the parts 



