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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 



Authors and societies are requested to forivard their -works to the editors as soon as 

 published. The date of publication, given in brackets [], marks the time at ivhich the 

 ■work -was received^ unless an earlier date of publication is known to recorder or editor. 

 Unless otherwise stated each record is made directly from the work that is noticed. 



A colon after initial designates the 7nost common given name, as: A: Augustus; B: Ben- 

 jamin; C: Charles; D: David; E: Edward; F: Frederic; G: George; H: Henry; 

 I: Isaac; J: John; K: Karl; L: Louis; M: Mark; N: Nicholas; O: Otto; P: Peter; R: 

 Richard; S: Samuel; T: Thomas; JV: William. The initials at the end of each record., or 

 note, are those of the recorder. < 



Corrections of errors and notices of omissions are solicited. 



Bassett, Homer Franklin. New cynipidae. 

 (Can. entom., April 1881, v. 13, p. 74-79; 

 May 18S1, V. 13, p. 92-113.) 



Describes 24 new species of cynipidae. 



G: D. (4477) 



Beard, Daniel C. The Florida "mule killer," 

 thelyphonus giganteus (Sci. amer.,5Mar. 

 1887, V. 56, p. 153, 40 cm.) 



Figures thelyphonus giganteus and gives notes on 

 its habits; mentions a case of a man seriously injured 

 by bites of this arachnid, and of two mules killed by 

 hiiefi oi thelyphonus. G: D. (447S) 



Bertkau, Philipp. Bemerkungen zu Schimke- 

 witsch's notiz "Sur im organe des sens des 

 araignees" in Zool. anz., no. 201, p. 464. 

 (Zool. anzeiger, 14 Sept. 1885, v. 8, p. 537- 

 53S.) 



Rev. of W. Schimkewitsch's "Sur un organe [etc.]" 

 {op. cit., :o Aug. 1SS5, p. 464-466) [Rec, 44S5] ; notes on 

 the structure of supposed auditory organs on the legs 

 oi araneina, with reference to what the author had al- 

 ready published on the subject. G: D. (4479) 



Clayes, S. L. Cobwebs and how thej are 

 made. (Swiss cross, Jan. 1888, v. 3, p. 

 lo-ii, 57 cm.) 

 Mode of web-making by epeira diadema. 



G: £>. (44S0) 



Miiller, Hermann. Explanation of the 

 female dimorphism oi paltostoma torren- 

 tium. (Nature, 7 July 1S81, v. 24, p. 214, 

 10 cm.) 



In explanation of the female dimorphism of paltos- 

 toma torrentiitm, and the theories concerning it ad- 

 vanced by Fritz Miiller fKosmos, Oct. :S8o, v. S, p. 

 37-42) [Rec, 4444], the author mentions that in empi's 

 punctata the males suck nectar, while a part of the 

 females do the same, and the others "attacked, mur- 

 dered, and consumed" ;-A/«^/« rostrata,-^. flv belonging 

 to the ,yr////(f«f . G: D. (44S1) 



Miiller, Fritz. Einige worte uber leptalis. 

 (Jenaische zeitschr. f. naturwiss., Feb. 1876, 

 V. 10, p. 1-12, il.) 



Abstract, entitled, "Mimicry in butter- 

 flies explained by natural selection." (Amer, 

 nat., Sept. 1S76, v. 10, 534-536.) [Rec, 

 1017.] 



Abstract. (Ann. record of sci. and in- 

 dustry, . . . S. F. Baird, 1876, p. 283-284.) 

 Discussion of mimicry, based upon studies of species 



of leptalis found in southern Brazil, H: W. T. (4482) 



Miiller, Fritz. Os orgaos odoriferos nas 



pernas de certos lepidopteres \_e supple- 



mento]. (Arch. do. Museu nacional do 



Rio de Janeiro, 1877, v. 2, p. 37-46, pi. 4-5.) 



Notes on the various kinds of odoriferous organs 



and their situations in the lepidoptera; those which 



consist of tufts on the legs are more fully described, 



both in general aspect and in minute structure, and 



figures of these tufts and the modified scales which 



form them in pantherodes pardalia and in an erebid 



moth are given. G: D. (44S3) 



Schaupp, Frank G : Fertile eggs from a dead 

 arctia virgo. (Bull. Brooklyn entom. soc, 

 Feb. 1883, V. 5, p. 81.) 



Eggs extracted from the body of arctia virgo hatched ; 

 might not larvae of a rare species be obtained similarlv? 



B: P. M. (44S4) 



Schimkewitsch, Wladimir, Sur un organe 

 des sens des araignees. (Zool. anzeiger, 10 

 Aug, 1885, V. 8, p. 464-466.) 



Rev., by P. Bertkau, entitled "Bemer- 

 kungen zu Schimkewitsch's notiz "Sur un 

 organe [etc.]." {op. cit., 14 Sep. 18S5, p. 

 537-538.) 



Describes position and structure of sense-organs, 

 comparable to Graber's chordotonal poriferous organs 

 of insects, which are located on the palpi and legs of 

 spiders. These organs are the same as those noted by 

 F. Dahl, in his "Das gehbr- und geruchsorgan der 

 spinnen." " ' (4485) 



