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eylanteruia collected ])v Mr. James Belirens on Mount Shasta, Califor- 

 nia, in July. The specimens were all males, having tlie upper sur- 

 face of the wings almost entirely black, with a few pink spots on the 

 costal region of primaries and a series of reduced yellow marks be- 

 fore external margin of both wings, the remnant of the usual orna- 

 mentation of the species. The variety was well marked and occured 

 in a number of specimens. Mr. Behrens proposed to call this variety 

 Shastaensis. One sjjecimen Mr.Grote thought intermediary and suggest- 

 el that the variation was caused by differences of temperature and 

 humidity. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



Catalogue of the Collection' op Diuknal Lepidoptera 



FORMED BY THE LATE AViLLIAM ChAPMAN HeWITSON Ctc. by W. F. 



Kirby, London, 1879, Vol. 4 to., pp. 246. [This work, printed for 

 private circulation, enumerates the names of about 4000 species re- 

 ])resented in the late Mr. Hewitson's collection bequeathed to the 

 British Museum. The collection is contained in seven cabinets 

 comprising altogether 357 drawers of a large and uniform size. The 

 collection is to be kept in the same cabinets and in the same order 

 and arrangement and under the same nomenclature for a period of 

 twenty one years after Mr. Hewitson's decease. Apart from the fine 

 condition of all the specimens and the rarity of many of the species, 

 the S3ientific value of the collection is greatly increased by the large 

 number of types which it includes.] 



Proceedings of the Academy of Xatural Science of Phila- 

 delphia, Part II., April— Oct., 1879. 



McCooK, Rev. H. C. (p. 137) Xote on the adoption of an 

 Ant-Queen. 



Ryder John A. (p. 139.) Xotice of a new Pauropod. 



McCooK, Rev. H. C. Mode of depositing Ant-eggs. Xote on 

 tlie marriage-flights of Lasius fiavus and Myrmica lobricornis (p. 

 140). Pairing of Spiders (p. 150). Xote on Mound-making Ants 

 (p. 154). Combats and Xidification of the Pavement Ant. (p. 156). 

 On Myrmecocystus Mexicanus (p. 197). 



Ryder J. A. (p. 164.) Larva of Eurypauropus spinosus. 



Leidy' Jos., M. D. (p. 195.) Remarks on Orgyia. 



Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. Vol, 

 II., Xo. 4. 



ScHAUPP E. G. (p. 29.) List of the described coleopterous 

 larvae of the United States. 



