72 



Enumerates 55 species of 30 genera; describes one new genus (Tor- 

 nos) and 15 (10 new) species. 



Litt. Liv. Age [see Rec, Nos. 11, 12], vols, cxxi-cxxiv (ser. 

 5, A r ols. vi-ix), contains Nos. 183 to 186. 



* 183. W. C. (Chambers' Journal.} Explorations of a 

 Naturalist, cxxi, p. 188-191. 



Notice of Belt's The Naturalist in Nicaragua [see Rec, No. 72]; habits 

 and food of foraging, leaf-cutting and other ants ; means against leaf- 

 cutting ants. 



* 184. The Spectator. Sir John Lubbock on " the Little 

 Busy Bee", cxxi, p. 379-381. 



Refutation of traditional notions about the mental qualities of honey- 

 bees ; character of instinct. 



* 185. A Busy Old Maid. (The Spectator.} The Busy 

 Bee. cxxi, p. 381-382. 



Are the instincts of worker honey-bees inherited ? 



* 186. Chambers' Journal. Colour in Animals, cxxii, p. 

 57-60. 



Variety, cause and conditions of colors in insects and other animals. 



* 187. The American Journal of Science and Arts 

 [see Rec, No. 13], vol. cvii (ser. 3, vol. vii), from p. 167, and 

 vol. cviii (3, viii), contains the following, and Nos. 188, 189. 



Insects found by the " Polaris " Expedition, cvii, p. 528. 



* 188. O. Harger. Notice of a new Fossil Spider from 

 the Coal Measures of Illinois, cvii, p. 219-223, fig. 



Description and figure of Arthrolycosa antiqua, a new species and genus, 

 composing the new family Arthrolycosidae ; its characters and affinities. 



* 189. Alfred M. Mayer. Experiments on the supposed 

 Auditory Apparatus of the Culex Mosquito, cviii, p. 89-103. 



Reasons to expect that " those articulates which are sensitive to sound, 

 and also emit characteristic sounds, will prove to possess receptors of vibra- 

 tions external to the general surface of their bodies, and that the propor- 

 tions and situations of these organs will comport with the physical 

 conditions necessary for them to receive and transmit vibrations to the 

 interior ganglia"; situation of the organs of hearing in Orthoptera ; func- 

 tions of antennae and palpi ; adaptation of the fibrils of the antennae of the 

 male mosquito to the perception of the various notes sounded by the female, 

 and to the determination of the direction from which the sounds proceed ; 

 conformity of anatomical facts to the hypothesis that the antennal fibrils 

 are the auditory organs of the mosquito. 



No. 12 was issued April 9, 1875. 



