116 



excursion of the Cambridge Entomological Club to the White Mts. 

 (1875), p. 480, k. A Tachina Parasite of the Squash Bug (Coreus tristit), 

 p. 519. 



* 291. F. C. Clark, M. D. The Song of the Cicada. 

 p. 70-74. 



Quotations from ancient writers about cicadas; description of the sono- 

 rous apparatus. 



* 292. J. L. LeConte. An Additional Character for the 

 Definition of Rhynchophorous Coleoptera. p. 112-113. 



Presence of a straight median suture on the under surface of the head, 

 corresponding with the gular sutures of other Coleoptera. 



* 293. Thomas W. Starr. A Method of Preparing and 

 Mounting Suitable Insects for Microscopial Examination, p. 

 122-124. 



* 294. R. Paekenham Williams. Embedding Tissues, p. 

 124. 



Description of an embedding mixture serviceable in cutting sections of 

 the eye of insects. 



* 295. E. J. M. Underhill. Spiders' Web. p. 125-126. 

 Composition of the web and the mechanism by which it is produced. 



* 296. E. Lewis Sturtevant. Flight of Vanessa Anti- 

 opa, Feb. 16th. p. 247. 



V. Antiopa flying at South Framingham, Mass., in freezing weather. 



* 297. T. G. Gentry. The Fertilization of certain Flow- 

 ers through Insect Agency, p. 263-267. 



Cucurbka ovifera fertilized with pollen of C. pe])o, and vines of Wistaria 

 sinensis cross-fertilized by bees. [See Rec, No. 301. J 



* 298. A. S. Packard, Jr. The Invertebrate Cave 

 Fauna of Kentucky and Adjoining States. I. Araneina. p. 

 274-278. 



Notice of the caves visited; distribution of the cave spiders and myrio- 

 pods; Spirostrephon cavernarum a cave species in process of formation. 

 [See Rec, No. 299.] 



* 299. J. H. Emerton. Notes on Spiders from Caves in 

 Kentucky, Virginia and Indiana, p. 278-281, with one plate 

 (i), containing 31 figures. 



Describes Nesticus pallidus, N. Cartcri, Linyphia subterranea, L. Weyeri, 

 L. incerta = 5 n. spp.; describes Anthrobia mammoulhia; figures of each; 

 notes on ten (" eleven") species. [See Rec, No. 298.] 



