197 



ptenus and its mode of operation; what can be done to prevent its rav- 

 ages; migrations and rules that govern them. 



*i 1036. Fk: H. Snow. Hunting Amblycbila. ]>. 731- 

 735. 



Habits and abundance of Anibhjchiln cijlbKlrifonnia. 



*i 1037. The Amer. Nat., v. 12, contains tlie following, 

 and nos. 1038-1057. 



a. Notice ofBrchm's Tbierleben, Bd. 9, Die Insekten . . . von Dr. E. L. 

 Tasehenberg, p. 116-118, [fig-]; of Kirby's Synonymic catalogue of Diurnal 

 Lepldoptera, p. 118-119; of Monteiro's Angola and the river Congo, p. 

 238-242, [fig. of insects]; of Thomas' Sixth iH>pt. . , . insects of tlie state of 

 Illinois, p. 243 [see Rec, no. 993J; of Glover's Manuscript notes . . . Index to 

 names, etc. . . . [see Rec. no. 968], p. 262 ; of Girai'd's Les ab'.'illcs. organes 

 et fonctions education et produits miel et cire, jJ- 315-314; of Emerton's 

 Structure and habits of spiders, p. 544-54.5; of Cook's Mmual of the 

 apiary, p. 550; of Thorell's Studi sul ragni Malcsi e Papuani, p. 550 ; of 

 First annual rept. of the U. S. Entom. Comin., p. 575 ; of Lintner's 

 Entoni. contributions, no. iv, p. 5 76; of Flogel's On the structure of the 

 brain in different orders of insects [in Z eit>ichrift fiir Wissensch. Zoul.J, p. 

 616-617; of Graber's Die Insekten, p. 689-690. h. Proceedings of soci- 

 eties: Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. [Potts on insects in pitchers of Nepenthes], 

 p. 268-269 ; Appalachian Mountain Club [Scudder on insects of high al- 

 titudes in N. A.], p. 577; Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. [Scuclder on Prodryas, a 

 new fossil butterfly and on the early life of some tertiary insects, and par- 

 ticularly on the eggs of a fossil Corydalus], p; 337. c. Notice of death of 

 T. Vernon Wollaston, and of Andrew Murray, p. 197; of Jared P. Kirt- 

 land, p. 198. d. Skunks eating AinUychila cylindriforiim (by S. W. Wil- 

 liston), p. 206. e. Eleodes and Asida in hurrows of prairie dogs (by S. W. 

 Williston), p. 208. f. Mono Lake Indians eating roasted wasp-nests and 

 their way of discovering the nests (by Edw. Palmer), p. 311-312. g. En- 

 tomological instruction at the Summer School of Biology of tlie Peabody 

 Acad. Sci., p. 337. h. Thelyplionus (jujcmteus offensively odorous, p. 396. 

 i. Phylloxera in Switzerland, p. 411. /. C. V. Riley appointed Entomol- 

 ogist to the Dept. of Agric, p. 413. k. Mode of moulting the lining of 

 crop and stomach in insects [mostly from Wilde's observauons on Ortlio- 

 ptera], p. 476-477. I. Silk-production of European countries per annum 

 [from Nature^, p. 496. m. Insects needed to fertilize Utricularia and 

 Pyxidanthei-a (by W. J. Beal), p. 552-554, 6 fig. n. Call for meeting of 

 Entom. Club of the A. A. A. S. (by B. P. Maun), p. 577. o. Entom. ob- 

 servers appointed by the Dept. of Agric, p. 705. p. Geophilus, a myri- 

 opod, from nostrils of a child, p. 705. q. Celonia inda injuring corn, p. 753. 



*^ 1038. C: V. Riley. On the transformations of tlie red 

 mites, p. 139—146, fig. 1-6. 



1 Record made by Mr. George Dimmock. 



