198 



Amer. Nat., v. 12. 



Describes and figures Tromhidium locuStarum, T. giganteum, T. miisca- 

 j-um, and H>/drachna belostomae := i n. spp. Figures and describes the 

 parasitic habits and most of the stages of the above species. [Extracted 

 from advance copy of the First annual report of the U. S. Entomologi- 

 cal Commission.] 



*i 1039. C: V. Riley. On the transformations and habits 

 of the bhster-beetles. p. 213-219, 282-290, pi. 1, fig. 1-5. 



Life history of Meloe, Sitaris, Hornia, and Epicauta; larval habits of 

 Macrobasis, Henous and other Meloid genera. Larvae of Epicauta cine- 

 i-ea, E. pensylvanlca and Macrobasis unicolor feed upon eggs of Caloptenus. 

 Figures the different stages of the above-mentioned Meloidae. [From the 

 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis.] 



*i 1040. C: S. MiNOT. A lesson on comparative histology, 

 p. 339-347, pi. 2, fig. 1-3. 



Illustrations mostly drawn from Caloptenus and Oedipoda. [Figures 

 are the same as in the First annual report of the U. S. Entomological 

 Commission.] 



*i 1041. Mrs. V. O. King. Phosphorescent insects. 

 Their metamorphoses, p. 354-358. 



Traces, in Lampyris, the '• supposed evolution from an apterous to that of. 

 an aerial being, and back to earth again as a creeper with heavy dispropor- 

 tioned body, feeble feet and mandibles, small eyes, and brilliant terminal 

 segments." 



*i 1042. A. S. Packard, Jr. The mode of extrication of 

 silkworm moths from their cocoons, p. 379-383, fig. 



Figures and describes a cocoon-cutter, or " sector coconis," found upon 

 the base of each fore wing in Actios luna, Telea poli/pheinus, Callosamia 

 promeihea, Plalysamia cecropia, P. glovej'ii, Samia cyntJda, Attacus amazonia^ 

 Saturnia pavonia-minor, Endromis versicolora and Bomhyx mori, by means 

 of which these species may cut their way out of their cocoons. 



*i 1043. T. Thorell. Notice of the spiders of the "Po- 

 laris" Expedition, p. 393-396. 



Notes upon the 4 species found, Erigone psychrophila, Erigone penessa 

 [n. sp. here described], Lycosa glacialis, and Trochosa inc. spec. 



*il044. Rev. H: C. McCook. Mound-making ants of 

 the Alleghenies. p. 431-445, fig. 1-8. 



Habits of Formica exsecloiiles; their mounds, gallery-building, under- 

 ground galleries, adding stories, entrances, size of ant compared with its 

 edifice, sentinels, paths on trees, winter habits, beetles found in nests 

 (^Tinesiphorus costalis, Atemeles cava and Cedius ziegleri), lej)idopterous 

 larvaj (of Lycaena) in nests of ants and the use which the ants make of 



1 Record made by Mr. George Dimmock. 



