196 



* 587. A. R. Grote and Adolph Kayser. Are Potato- 

 bugs Poisonous ? p. 226-228. 



Statement of experiments with liquid matters and with tinctures ob- 

 tained from Doryphora 10-lineata, tending to show that the insects are not 

 generally poisonous. 



* 588. G. Dimmock. A Method of Bleaching Wings of 

 Lepidoptera to facilitate the Study of their Venation, p. 228— 

 230. 



[Essentially the same as the article in Psyche, vol. i, p. 97-99.] 



* 589. Charles H. Allen. Demonstration of Locomo- 

 tion in the larvae of the CEstridae* p. 230-236. 



Statement of a case in which larva; of probably Hypoderma bovis moved 

 respectively one, six and thirty inches under the skin of a boy ; notes on 

 other larvae of Oestridae. 



* 590. The Memoirs of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. I. Salem, Mass. F. 

 W. Putnam, Permanent Secretary, A. A. A. S. 1875. 4to. 

 consist of the following and No. 591. 



Title ; Letter of Gift [of the Thompson Fund] ; Report of the Special 

 Committee on the Thompson Fund, Hartford Meeting, August, 1874, p. 

 i-iv. 



* 591. S. H. Scudder. Fossil Butterflies, pp. v-xi, 1-99, 

 fig. 1-8, with three plates (i— iii) containing 54 figures. 



Title, Dedication, Contents, Introductory, p. v-xi. Says: "In the hope 

 of drawing attention to fossil butterflies, * * * , I have brought together 

 in this connection all that has been published of this group of fossils, 

 whether of text or illustration." Bibliography [cites 41 titles, stating the 

 subject treated of under each], p. 1-7. Motto [by Heer], p. 8. Descrip- 

 tive [treats of Neorinopis, N. sepulta, Lethites!, L. Reynesii, Eugonia, E. 

 alava, Mylothrites!, M. Pluto, Coliates!, C. Proserpina, Pontia, P. Freyeri, 

 Thaites, Tit. Ruminiana, Thanatites!, Th.vetula, Pamphilites!, P. abdital^z 

 9 (5 new) gen., 9 (2 new) spp. of fossils; figures Eugonia j-album, Zopho- 

 essa Sura, Delias Pasithoe; Lethe Dyrta, Neorina Loicii, Debis Sinorix, Pon- 

 tia Protodice, P. Freyeri, Thais Rumina, Pamassius S/ninlheus, Thanaos Ju- 

 venalis, Carystus Lucasii, Pansydia Mesogramma, for comparison], p. 9-69, 

 fig. 1, pi. i-iii. Comparative Age of Fossil Butterflies, p. 70-71. Prob- 

 able Food-Plants of Tertiary Caterpillars, p. 71-76. Present Distribution 

 of Butterflies most nearly allied to Fossil Species, p. 76-83. General Re- 

 sume, with Notices of Undetermined Forms, p. 83-88. Notice of Insects 

 which have been erroneously referred in recent times to Butterflies [treats 

 of Cyllbnium Boisduvalianum, C. Hewitsonianum, Palaeontina oolilica~\, p. 

 88-95, fig. 2-8. Explanation of the Plates, p. 97-98. List of Wood-cuts; 

 Errata, p. 99. 



