63 



HuLsT Geo. D. (p. 35.) Abnormal Larvae. [The author gives a 

 list of eight species of Sphingidae found in the larval state withont 

 the caudal horn, and gives notes on the variation of larvae.) 



TuDSCHRTFT vooR ExTOMOLOGiE, Aflevering 1 — 2, 1879. 

 SNELLEN VAX VoLLENHOVEN S. C. (p. 1). De iulaudschc Blad- 

 wespen (Twintigste Stuk). [The author gives the full description 

 of Selandria aduinhrata (Plate 1), Hylotoma pullata (Plate 2), //. vul- 

 garis (Plate 3), Selandria Sixii (Plate 4). The larvae and a number 

 of structural details are excellently illustrated.] 



RiTSEMA C. (p. 21). Naamlijst der tot heden in Nedefland 

 waargenomen Bijen-soorten. [The author enumerates 195 species of 

 Hymenoptera Anthophila found in the Netherlands and describes in 

 conclusion Sphecodes perversus as a new species.] 



Everts Dr. Ed. (p. 58.) Description de cinq especes nouvelles 

 du genre Apion. [The author describes and figures (Plate 5) Apion 

 Rnp.lofsi (Limbourg), A. Ragusae (Sicily), A. viridicneruleum (Sicily), 

 A. AJgiricum (Algiers), A. carbonarium (Geneva). On the Plate also 

 are given figures of other species of the genus.] 



Sntellex p. C. F. (p. 61.) Lepidoptera van Celebes. Tweede 

 afdeelung, Heterocera. [The author enumerates the moths of Celebes 

 collected by Mr. M. C. Peters. Three very good Plates (Nos. 6 — 8) 

 accompany the paper which is one of great interest. The author 

 takes occasion to unite all of Butler's species of LeucophJehia, with 

 Unmta, and critizes Butler's species in the moths.] 



Annual Address of the President of the Cixcinxati So- 

 ciety OF Natural History. The metamorphoses of Insects as 

 illustrated in the Tineid genus Lithocolletis of Zeller. By V. T. 

 Chambers, pamphlet, 8 vo., pp. 22. [The author has traced the en- 

 tire life history of several species and finds the number of larval 

 moults to be seven. The author gives a large number of interesting 

 details and concludes that "food and temperature remaining the 

 same, there is a fixed period in each species for the duration of 

 each stage, that usually in each species all larval stages are of 

 the same length." Some useful woodcuts illustrate the paper.] 



Memoirs of the Boston Society of Xatural History'. A'ol. 

 III. Part I. Xo. III. Palaeozoic cockroaches : a complete revision 

 of the species of both worlds with an essay towards their classification. 

 By Samuel H. Scudder. [This work, illustrated by six Plates of the 

 wings of fossil cockroacheB, i? an important addition to our know- 

 ledge of fosBil in^ecti?. The drift of the entire essay is opposed to 



