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American aphides. (Nature, 24 April 1879, 
vy. 19, p. 585, 6 cm.) 
Brief rev. of C: V. Riley and Joseph Monell’s “‘ Notes on 
the aphididae of the U. S.,...’’ (Bull. U.S. geol. and geog. 
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Ballard, Julia Perkins [Pratt], wife of Addi- 
son. Insect lives, or Born in prison. Cincin- 
nati, Robert Clarke & Co., 1879, 97 p., 19 X 
15, t 13.2 X 10.1, il. el., $1.00. 
Notice. (Publishers’ weekly, Oct. 1879, no. 
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Notice. (Boston w. advert., 13 Noy. 1879, 
v. 69, no. 48, p. 2, col. 84, 4 cm.) 
Rey. (Amer. nat., Dec. 1879, v. 18, p. 774.) 
Rey. (Nation, 11 Dec. 1879, v. 29, p. 408, 
5 cm.) 
Rey. (Atlantic monthly, Jan. 1880, v. 45, p. 
128, 9 cm.) 
Notice. (Cincinnati times, .. .) 
[Advert.] 4 p., 24 x 16, t 17.3 x 9.8. 
Rey. (Psyche, July [Oct.] 1880, v. 3, p. 89.) 
Statement of the author’s experiences in raising a few 
butterflies and moths, so told as to interest and instruct 
beginners in doing likewise. Information attractively given 
and accurate. The advertisement contains a preface, as it 
were, to the book, a commendatory notice by W: H: Ed- 
wards, and a reprint of the notice given in the Cincinnati 
times. B: P.M. (1725) 
Brooklyn [N. Y.] entomological society. 
Bulletin [Prospectus of]. (Bull. Brooklyn 
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B: P.M. (1726) 
Early types of insects (The). (Nature, 24 
April 1879, v. 19, p. 584, 5 cm.) 
Notice of S: H. Scudder’s ‘‘ The early types of insects ; 
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Edwards, W: H: On the lepidoptera collected 
by Dr. Elliott Coues, U. S. A., in Montana, 
during 1874. (Bull. U. S. geol. and geog. 
sury. terr., May 1878, v. 4, no. 2, p. 513-517.) 
List of 22 species of rhopalocera, with notes on distribu- 
tion. Colias eriphyle and argynnis clio described as new 
species. B: P. M. (1728) 
Grey, D: Climbing Ute mountain. ([Chicago, 
Ill.| d. interocean, 25 Aug. 1875, . . . 95 cm.) 
Briefly describes an Ute Indian mother catching and eat- 
ing pediculus from her child’s head. G: D. (1729) 
Grote, A: Radcliffe. Descriptions of noctui- 
dae, chiefly from California. (Bull. U.S. geol. 
and geog. surv. terr., 1878, v. 4, no. 1, p. 169- 
187.) 
Describes the following 1 n. g. and 37 n. sp.: apatela 
pallidicoma, 18 sp. of agrotis, 4sp. of hadena, dryobota opina, 
arzama diffusa, ufeus unicolor, graphiphora contrahens, 
lithophane lepida Lintn., rylomiges tabulata, tarache semi- 
opaca, annaphila divinula, melivotis stygialis, poaphila 
placata, p. irrorata, zanclognatha minimalis, dercetis (n. g., 
types: d. vitrea and d. pygmaea), d. vitrea, d. pygmaea ; 
describes zotheca tranquilla var. viridula n. var. ; notes on 
other genera and species; list of the 11 N. A. species of 
glaea and of 9 species of annaphila. B: P.M. (1730) 
Grote, A: Radcliffe. Preliminary studies on 
the North American pyralidae. 1. (Bull. U.S. 
geol. and geog. surv. terr., July 1878, v. 4, no. 
3, p. 669-705, fig. 1-14.) 
Describes as new genera and species : prorasea simalis, 
aedis funalis, honora mellinella, dakruma turbatella; de- 
scribes as new species: stemmatophora nicalis, emprepes 
nuchalis, scoparia libella, botis albiceralis, b. talis, acroba- 
sis tricolorella, pempelia pravella, pinipestis ? abietivorella ; 
describes and figures the neuration of the genera epipa- 
schia, mochlocera, cacozelia, toripalpus, tetralopha, acro- 
basis, pempelia, salebria, nephopteryx, pinipestis, honora, 
dakruma, homeosoma, anerastia, and species of each; de- 
scribes the genera arta, condylolomia and melanomma, and 
species of each, and two species of asopia ; annotated list 
of the 66 N. A. species of botis known to the author ; charac- 
ter of the groups epipaschiae and phycidae ; provisional 
list of the species of phycidae. B: P.M. (1781) 
Habits of ants. (Amer. nat., Aug. 1879, v. 13, 
p. 525-527.) 
Observations by J: Lubbock on the hairs of plants asa 
means of preventing ants going up the stems, on fertile 
worker ants, on longevity of ants and population of their 
nests, on recognition of friends and production of sounds 
by ants, on their kind treatment of other ants; by H: C. 
McCook on blunting of ants’ mandibles by labor. 
G: D. (1782) 
[Habits of ants.] Sitten der Ameisen (Die). 
(Kosmos [Leipzig], Jan. 1880, bd. 6, p. 304 
313, 339 cm.) 
Reviews late discoveries on the habits of ants, especially 
those of Lubbock. Mostly tr. from Revue scientifique, 19 
July 1879. G: D. (A734) 
Harrison, Mrs. L. All for boys. (Prairie 
farmer, 5 June 1880, v. 51, no. 23, p. 179, col. 
4, 21 cm.) 
Catching and establishing colonies of runaway bees. 
J.D. P. (1735) 
