44 



* 789. D. N. St. Cyr. Entomology of the County [corr.] 

 of Champlain. p. 115-117. [Feb., 1875.] 



List of a 38 Coleoptera and 21 Hemiptera collected on a trip. 



* 790. N. M. Hentz. The Spiders of the United States. 

 — A Collection of the Arachnological Writings of Nicholas 

 Marcellus Hentz, M. D. Edited by Edward Burgess, with 

 Notes and Descriptions by James H. Emerton. Boston : Bos- 

 ton Society of Natural History. 1875. — Also entitled: Occa- 

 sional Papei's of the Boston Society of Natural History. II 

 Boston : Printed for the Society. 1875. 8vo. pg. xiii, 171, 

 with 21 plates. [Dec, 1875.] 



Titles; Preface [origin, purpose and plan of this volume; sketch of 

 Hentz's life; List of the Writings of Prof. Hentz]. Reprint of " all " 

 [the important part] of Hentz's arachnological writings, viz.: from Am. 

 Journ. Science and Arts, xxi, p. 99-109 (1832) ; do., xli, p. 116 (1841) ; 

 Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., iv, pp. 54-57, 223-231, pi. 7-8 (1842), p. 386-396, 

 pi. 17-19 (1844); do., v, pp. 189-202, pi. 16-17 (1845), p. 352-370, pi. 21 

 -22 (1846), p. 443-479, pi. 23-24, 30-31 (1847); do., vi, pp. 18-35, 271- 

 288, pi. 3-4, 9-10 (1850); Proc. B. S. N. H., xi, p. 103-111, with two 

 plates; Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., ii, p. 53-55 (1821). Treats of 40 genera 

 and 254 species. 



" Before his time, with the exception of a few accidental descriptions 

 scattered through the works of writers, for the most part European, nothing 

 relating to North American Spiders had been published." " As little 

 progress since, as before, Hentz's time has been made." 



* 791. Dr. Henri de Saussure. Synopsis of American 

 Wasps. — Solitary Wasps. — [Smithsonian Miscellaneous Col- 

 lections. — 254 — ] Washington : Smithsonian Institution. De- 

 cember, 1875. 8vo. pg. XXXV, 392, with four plates (i-iv), 

 containing 31 figures. [Dec, 1876.] 



Title ; advertisement ; dedication [to Mr. Edward Norton, translator of 

 the work from the French] , p. i-iv. Preface [account of the author's pre- 

 vious writings on Vespidae and of the materials used as basis for this work], 

 p. v-ix. Introduction [problems of philosophical zoology for the solution 

 of which entomology is particularly adapted ; comparative merits of rela- 

 tive and absolute descriptions of species; relative constancy of structural 

 and eolorational characteristics ; rules of nomenclature ; " in insects in gen- 

 eral, the female represents' the type of the species;" preparation of speci- 

 mens for the cabinet; determination of insects], p. xi-xxiii. Analytical 

 Table [of contents ; synopsis of the classification adopted], p. xxv-xxxv. 



Synopsis of the 3 subfamilies of Vespidae; description of 177 (3 Masa- 



