244 Referate. 
on a human being, they caused a great itching and tenderness. I heard of one 
man who had lost an eye, and almost lost the other, through these caterpillars.“ I 
Another official correspondent writing from Armidule said: „I saw a child at 
Bundarra whose hand had to be lanced three times as a result of inflammation 
arising irom these caterpillars crawling over it“. In reference to the horses, 
they are alleged to swallow the caterpillars with the grass they eat; the larvae 
are hairy, and the hairs are reported as causing ulceration when coming in 
contact with the delicate membrane of the horsis mouth, and this sometimes 
leads to the death of the animal. 
Froggatt, W. W., F.L. S. The French Bean Fly. Agromyza phaseoli Coquillet. 
Queensland Agric. Gaz., XXVI., part. 4, April 1911, p. 217. 
This paper contains, briefly, the history of the species, its range in Au- 
stralia; description of the insect by Coquillet; life-history, damage wrought by 
the species and remedies. | 
Colledge, W B. Notes on a Brush-tongued Mosquito. (Toxorhynchites speciosa.) 
Presidential address. Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, Vol. XXI, part. I, 
1911, 9.121 Blate: 
Davy, H. W., F. E. S. The Root Borer and Its Parasits. Popular paper dealing 
with the apple-root borer, Leptops hopei, and its parasite, Perilatus leptopsı | 
Viereck n.sp. The latter described and figured. Journ. Agric. Victoria, 
Vol. IX, part. 7, July 1911, p. 451. 
French, C. junr. Insects Destructive to Crops. Cut Worms. Journ. Agric. 
Vict., Vol. IX, part. 7, July 1911, p. 455, tigs. in text and coloured plate. 
Illustrating the following Moths: Chloridea obsoleta, Cirphis unipuncta, Euxoa 
radians, Persectania evingi, Plusia argentifera, Agrotis spina, Euplexia nigerrima, larva 
and pupa of Agrodis. 
Castella, F. de. Practical Hints on Cut Worm Destruction, op. cit., p. 458. 
French, C. F. L. S. Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria, part. V, 
150 pp. 
Illustrated by numerous coloured plates, illustrating insect pests and their live- 
histories, also several species of insectivorous birds.. Among the insects described 
and figured are several species of Lepidoptera, Diptera, Coccidae, and Coleoptera. 
The descriptions are all popular, the work being designed for the use of farmers 
and orchardists. Methods of combating each of the pests are also given. 
French, C. junr. Dried Fruits Beetle (Carpophilus hemipterus Steph.). Journ. 
Agric. Vict,, Vol. IX., part. 9, Sept. 1911, p. 640, with pl., illustrating 
larva and imago. 
Deals with habits and life-history, and methods of combating pest. 
Froggatt, W. W. A New Pest of Salt Bush.-White Fly (Aleurodes atriplex 
n. sp.). Agric. Gaz. N. S. Wales, Vol. XXII., part. 9, p. 757, figs. in text. 
Rainbow, W. J., F.L. S. AList of Australian Araneidae. Rec. Austr. Mus., Vol. 
IX; N0.'21911;, 9.4107 
An Exhaustive bibliographic and synomymic catalogue of the group. 
(Schluss folgt.) 
Neuere insektologische Arbeiten (insbesondere aus den 
systematisch niedrigeren Ordnungen) differenter Wissens- 
gebiete. 
Von Prof. A. Bachmetjew (Sofia), Dr. W. La Baume (Berlin), H. Herter (Tegel), 
Dr. ©. Prochnow (Gr. Lichterfelde b. Berlin), Prof. Dr. Chr. Schröder (Berlin). 
Strohmeyer, H. Un Platypus del Uruguay. — Anales del Museo Nacio- 
nal de Montevideo, Serie II. Tomo I., Entrega II. 1911. p. 85—88. 
‚Verf. erhielt von Tremoleras-Montevideo einen in Birnbaumstämmen 
Galerien anlegenden Platypus, den er als Pl. mutatus Chap. bestimmt. 
.. Die Art ist vielleicht mit Pl. sulcatus Chap. identisch. In Uruguay gibt es 
zweifellos eine grosse Anzahl von Platypodiden, die noch wenig bekannt sind. 
Thompson, M. T. Alimentary canal of the mosquito. — Proceed. 
. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 32, p. 145—202, pl. 12—17. 
Die umfangreiche Arbeit behandelt eingehend Anatomie und Histiologie des 
Darmes der Larve, Puppe und Imago zweier Culex-Arten und einer Anopheles. 
. Während Mittel- und Enddarm nicht in wohlbegrenzte Regionen zerfallen, 
zeigt der Vorderdarm der Imago die stärkste Differenzierung, die sich bei den 
