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differences of behavior of the same insect in 

 different places. Altogether this genus of 

 butterflies is one of the most perplexing and 

 interesting, so far as life-histories go. 



Dalla Torre's projected Catalogus Hymen- 

 opterorum in ten volumes has begun publi- 

 cation, the sixth volume dealing with the 

 Chrysididae having just been issued. 



An egg of an unknown Reduviid from 

 Brazil, with a cap of most extraordinarily 

 complicated structure, is described and figured 

 by Sharp in the November Transactions of 

 the Entomological society of London. 



Bauer and Raspe of Nuremberg announce 

 the early publication of Vol. 4 of Keyserling's 

 Die Spinnen Amerikas containing the Epei- 

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The first part of the second volume of the 

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entirely devoted (176 pp.) to a paper by Ruga 

 Borne on a poisonous spider of that country, 

 Latrodectns formidabilis. Although con- 

 tributed to a French society, the memoir is 

 in Spanish. There are no illustrations. 



A fragment of a proposed Manual of the 

 butterflies of America north of Mexico, com- 

 prising the six tribes of Nymphalinae which 

 are exclusively tropical, is printed by S. H. 

 Scudder in the Proceedings of the American 

 academy of arts and sciences. 



Captain Casey has published in the Annals 

 of the N. Y. academy a fourth instalment 

 (354 PPO °f n ' s Coleopterological notices. 

 It is almost entirely devoted to N. A. Rhyn- 

 chophora, and more than half of it to the 

 Barini, in which thirty-nine genera, eighteen 

 of them new, are recognized. 



The principal articles in Pysche are now 

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