194 



Amer. Nat., v. 10. 



Functionwechsels : Genealogische Skizzen.] Correspondences between 

 vertebrate and insect embryos. 



*^ 1020. S: H. ScuDDER. A cosmopolitan butterfly, ii. Its 

 history, p. 602-Gll. 



Life history of Vanessa cardid, as far as known, in different parts of the 

 ■world; its broods, food-plant's and parasites. [See Rec, no. 1013.] 



*i 1021. T. M. Peters. A spider fisherman, p. 688. 



A spider kills a minnow by dropping upon it from a tree over a spring 

 and biting its neck until it is dead. 



*i 1022. Tlie Amer. Nat., v. 11, contains the following, and 

 nos. 1023 to 1036. 



a. Notices of Dr. F. Katter's Entomologischer Kalender fiir Deutsch- 

 land, Oesterreich und die Schweiz, p. 55; of Weismann's Final causes of 

 transmutation [including a description of the nature of the markings of 

 Sphingid larva?], p. 10!)-110; of Glover's Manuscript notes . . . Hetero- 

 ptera, or Plant bugs [see Rec, no. 967], p. 110; of the entomological por- 

 tions of Bulletin, no. 2, v. 3, of Hayden's U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr, [see 

 Rec, nos. 855-858], p. 367; of Scudder's Fossil insects from British Co- 

 lumbia, p. 374-375; of Packard's Half hours with insects, correcting typo- 

 graphical errors [see Rec, no. 994, where the same errors are corrected], 

 p. 443-444; of Murray's Economic entomology, p. 482-483; of Psychic, 

 p. 508; of Gerstaecker's Arthropoda (in Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen 

 des Thiei-reiclis), p. 702. h. Proceedings of societies: Amer. Assoc. Ad- 

 vanc Sci. [Grote on Our knowledge of the cotton worm, and on A new 

 lepidopterous insect injurious to vegetation (see Rec, no. 981), Bassett on 

 Agamous reproduction among the Cynipidae], p. 638; Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Pliilad. [LeConte on the spreading of inti-oduced insects, McCook on For- 

 mica rufa, Leidy and McCook on destruction of plants by ants, LeConte on 

 Anthrenus scrophulariae, and on the effect of corrosive sublimate (Hg CIg) 

 scattered upon ant-hills], p. 61-63; Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. [Scudder on per- 

 fect and imperfect metamorphoses of insects, and on polymorphism of our 

 blue butterflies], p. 447 [Scudder on fossil insects from Colorado], p. 703; 

 Camb. Entom. Club [DImmock on Anisopteryx, Scudder on a Myrmecoph- 

 ila from Georgia, and upon fossil ants from Colorado], p. 190-191. c. 

 Obituary notice of Dr. William LeBaron, p. 56. d. The zoology of the 

 Wheeler stirvey, p. 108-109. e. A few words about scavengers [among 

 which are mentioned flies, mosquitoes in their larval state, Silpha (for 

 which is figured a Nfcropliorus) and lulus] (by Prof. Sanborn Tenney), p. 

 129-135. /". The phenomena of digestion in the cockroach [from Pla- 

 teau's researches], p. 243. r/. Appropriation by Congress for U. S. En- 

 tom. Comm., and the appointment of its members, p. 254. h. Thelyphonus 

 giganteus poisonous, p. 367. /. Locust ravages in northern China, p. 634. 

 1 Record made bv Mr. GeorQ;e Dimmock. 



