128 



* 330. A. R. Grote. Descriptions of North American 

 Moths, p. 113-118. 



Describes Mamestra lubens, Heliothis cupes, Cleophana occata, Agrotis 

 excellens, Heliophila ligata, Prothymia orgiae, Cirrhobolina (n. g.) incandes- 

 cens, Melanomma (n. g.) auricinctaria = 2n. gen., 8 n. spp. ; describes Or- 

 thopia dislicha ; notes on Bolina, B. ochreifascia, Cirrhobolina deducta ; 

 Syneda Strelckii = S. Howlandii. 



* 331. A. R. Grote. Note on Papilio Gundlachianus. 

 p. 118. 



Indicates Blakea n. g., with P. Gundlachianus as type. 



* 332. The Cincinnati Quarterly Journal of Science, 

 vol. i, contains the following, and Nos. 333 to 339. 



a. Definition of Species [extract from " Wallace on Natural Selection, 

 p. 141," and " Darwin, Origin of Species, p. 67 "], p. 84-86. b. The 

 Late Professor Louis Agassiz [reprint of a notice " from Harper's Weekly 

 January 24, 1874 "], p. 86-88. c. Rules for Rendering the Nomencla- 

 ture of Zoology Uniform and Permanent, reported and adopted at the 

 Twelfth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, held at Manchester, in June, 1842, p. 351-367. 



* 333. John Blaukwall [misprinted " Blackwell "]. A 

 Succinct Review of Recent Attempts to Explain Several Re- 

 markable Facts in the Physiology of Spiders and Insects, p. 



46-51. 



Reprint from Journ. of Proc. Linnaean Society, vol. vii, p. 154-. 

 Spiders can not propel threads to a distance ; method of copulation of 

 spiders ; spiders and insects adhere to polished vertical surfaces by a gela- 

 tinous secretion. 



* 334. J. Black wall. Facts Relative to the Movements 

 of Insects on Dry, Polished, Vertical Surfaces, p. 51—54. 



Reprint from Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. viii, p. 136-. [See Rec, No. 333.J 



* 335. A. G. Wetherby. Method of Rearing Lepidoptera 

 — Entomological Memoranda, p. 154—157. 



Directions for rearing Lepidoptera in confinement. 



* 336. Alfred R. Wallace. On the Phenomena of Vari- 

 ation and Geographical Distribution as illustrated by the Papi- 

 lionidas of the Malayan Region, p. 161—179. 



Reprint from Trans. Linnaean Soc, vol. xxv, p. 1-. Special applica- 

 bility of Papilionidae to the explanation of these phenomena ; character, 

 rank, geographical distribution and variation of Papilionidae; definition 

 and exemplification of 1. simple variability, 2. polymorphism or dimorphism, 

 3. local form or variety, 4. co-existing variety, 5. race or subspecies, 6. 

 species ; variation as specially influenced by locality. 



No. 19 was issued Dec. 10, 1875. 



