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reasoning powers; migrations; characteristics of the Nicaraguan fauna; 

 habitat of tropical animals during the glacial period ; similarity of fresh 

 water animals all over the world; natural and artificial selection; bearing 

 of epidemics on the origin of species. 



* 73. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 

 4, vol. xiii, contain the following;, and Nos. 74, 75. 



a. Scudder's On some recent remarks [etc.] reprinted [see No. 4 of this 

 Record], p. 186-188. h. Notice of Belt's The Naturalist in Nicaragua 

 (1874) [Habits of Oecodoma and Ecilon spp.; relations between insects and 

 plants; mimicry], p. 246-249. c. Notice of Thomas' Synopsis of the 

 Acrididae of North America (1873) [Oviposition of Caloptenus; classifica- 

 tion of Orthoptera ; synoptical table of (2) subfamilies and (8) groups of 

 Acrididae ; statistics of species], p. 322-324. 



* 74. F. W. Hutton. The Geographical Relations of the 

 New-Zealand Fauna, pp. 01-94, 90-98, 100. 



Genera of insects common to New Zealand and North America. 



* 75. Frederick Smith. A Revision of the genera Epi- 

 charis, Centris, Ettlema, and Euglossa, belonging to the family 

 Apidse, section Scopulipedes. pp. 318-322, 357-373, 440-446. 



Describes each genus and 48 (30 new) species; enumerates 115 species, 

 of which 28 (18 described, 15 new) are North American. 



* 70. The Transactions of the Entomological Society of 

 London for the year 1874, as far as p. 328, contain the follow- 

 ing, and <Nos. 77, 78. 



a. Synonymy of some N. A. species of Apatura (by A. G. Butler), 

 Proc, p. iii. b. Migrations of Dori/phora decem-lineata and means against 

 it, Proc, ]). v. 



* 77. H. W. Bates. Supplement to the Longicorn Col- 

 eoptera of Chontales, Nicaragua, p. 219-236. 



Enumerate-; 37 (26 new) species of 29 (2 new) genera, making a total 

 of 309 species; \\\<o describes two new species from South America and one 

 from Jamuca. [See these Transactions, 1872, p. 163-238.] 



* 78. F. Smith. Monograph of the Genus Xylocopa, 

 Latr. p. 247-302. 



Treats of 123 (30 new) species, 18 (7 new) of which occur in N. A. 



* 79. Herman Strecker. Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and 

 Heteroceres, Indigenous and Exotic ; with Descriptions and 

 Colored Illustrations. Nos. 1-11. Reading, Pa., 1872-1874. 

 4to. pg. 100, with 11 plates (i-xi), containing 179 figures. 



Title; advertisement. 168 (32 new) N. A. and one exotic species de- 

 scribed, and the following figured: 9 (1 new) Papilio, 3 Pieris, 1 Colias, 3 



