PSYCHE. 
Nylander, W. De l’ouie chez les anobium. 
(Feuille des jeunes naturalistes, May 1880, an. 
10, p. 92-93.) 
Delicate hearing of anobium and the mode in which the 
beetle makes its rapping noise. G: D. (1775) 
Osborn, Herbert. <A destructive borer. (Col- 
lege quart., May 1880, v. 3, no. 1, p. 12, col. 1- 
2,24 cm.) (Western stock journ. and farmer, 
June 1880, v. 10, no. 6, p. 125, col. 1-2, 32 cm.) 
Description and figure of a large caterpillar found among 
chips of red oak, and supposed to be xyleutes robiniae, 
Peck. J.D. P. (1776) 
Osborn, Herbert. [Habits of /achnosterna fusca. | 
(College quart., May 1880, v.3, no. 1, p. 13, col. 
2,1 cm.) (Western stock journ. and farmer, 
June 1880, vy. 10, no. 6, p. 125, col. 2, 9 em.) 
Jee. VINT) 
Osborn, Herbert. [Trochilium denutatum de- 
structive to ash trees, fraxinus.| (College 
quart., May 1880, v. 3, no. 1, p. 14, col. 2,3 cm.) 
JaD..P. (778) 
Paaren, N.H. Scab in sheep. (Prairie far- 
mer, 5 June 1880, v. 51, no. 23, p. 181, col. 3-4, 
37 cm.) 
Scab in sheep caused by acari; methods of treatment. 
J.D. P. (1779) 
Packard, Alpheus Spring, jr. A poisonous 
centipede. (Amer. nat., Aug. 1879, v. 13, p. 
527.) 
Abstract. (Science advocate [Atco, N. J.|, 
Jan. 1880, v. 1, no. 1, [p. 4,] col. 2, 4 em.) 
Notes cermatia forceps from Providence, R. I. 
G: D. (1780) 
The Rocky 
(Amer. nat., 
Packard, Alpheus Spring, jr. 
Mountain locust in New Mexico. 
Sept. 1879, v. 15, p. 586.) 
Northern half of New Mexico and probably northern 
Arizona are subject to occasional invasions of caloptenus 
spretus ; dates of several invasions. G: D. (1781) 
Perty, Maximilian. Moritz Isenschmidt, Nek- 
rolog. (Abhandlungen d. naturforschenden 
Gesellschaft in Bern aus d. J. 1878, 1879, p. 
187-193.) 
M. Isenschmidt was b. 5 Nov. 1850 in Konitz, near Bern, 
Switzerland ; d. 21 Oct. 1878, in Bern. G: D. (1782) 
[Poletajew, N.] Die Flugmuskeln der Lep- 
idopteren und Libelluliden. (Zool. Anzeiger, 
3 May 1880, jahrg. 3, p. 212-213.) 
Abstract of a paper by N. Poletajew before the zoological 
section of the sixth assembly of Russian naturalists and 
physicians. G: D. (1783) 
Ravages of the army worm. (Boston d. ad- 
vert., 29 June 1880, no. 22415, v. 135, no. 156, 
p- 1, col. 67,3 em.) 
Invasion of Portsmouth, N. H., and vicinity by Jeuca- 
nia unipuncta ; ‘in farming districts ditching proves to be 
the only effectual means of staying their progress.’ 
B: P.M. (1784) 
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Riley, C: Valentine and Joseph Monell. 
Notes on the aphididae of the United States, 
with descriptions of species occurring west of 
the Mississippi. (Bull. U.S. geol. and geog. 
sury. terr., 28 Feb. 1879, v. 5, no. 1, p. 1-32.) 
Rey., entitled, “American aphides.” (Na- 
ture, 24 April 1879, v. 19, p. 585, 6 cm.) 
Part 1, p. 1-17. Biological notes on the pemphiginae, 
with descriptions of new species, by Riley. ‘* Full account 
ot? schizoneura americana n. sp. and colopha ulmicola, 
‘‘with less complete accounts of” hormaphis spinosus, 
pemphigus populimonilis n. sp., p. populitransversus Ni. Sp-, 
p. populiramulorum un. sp., p. acerifolii n. sp., p. fraxini- 
Jolii n. sp. 
Part 2, p. 18-32. Notes on aphidinae, with descriptions 
of new species, by Monell. Describes 9 new species of 
siphonophora, 5 of aphis, 2 of rhopalosiphum, 9 of callipte- 
rus, 3 of chaitophorus, other species of these genera and 
of drepanosiphum and the genera themselves, with synoptic 
tables for distinguishing some of the species. 
B: P.M. (1785) 
Schaupp, Frank G: ‘[Coleoptera wanted.] 
(Bull. Brooklyn entom. soc., May 1878 [v. 1], 
e183) 
List of 7 cicindela, 3 nomaretus, 10 cychrus which the 
author wishes to obtain by purchase or exchange. 
idee ee Maa @ Wi-Is)) 
Schindler, Emil. Beitrige zur Kenntniss der 
Malpighi’schen Gefasse der Insecten. Inaug- 
uraldissertation zur Erlangung der Doctor- 
wiirde vorgelegt der hohen philosophischen 
Facultit der Universitit Leipzig. Mit 5 Tafeln 
und 1 Hoizschnitt. Leipzig, W. Engelmann, 
1878. t.-p. cover + 76 [+ 1] p., pl. 388-40. 24 
Mlb tals 1057. 
From the Zeitschr. f. wiss. Zool., v.30, heft 4. General ; 
historical ; minute and grosser anatomy of the malpighian 
vessels in the different orders of insects; final remarks in 
which the view that the malpighian vessels are urinary or- 
gans is defended, and their surface in relation to the weight 
of the body of the insect is discussed. Figures the mal- 
pighian vessels or their parts, in lepisma saccharina, peri- 
planeta europaea, p. orientalis, mantis religiosa, gryllotalpa 
vulgaris,acheta campestris, decticus, perla bicaudata, ephem- 
era vulgata, phryganea flavicornis, dromius, cryptocephalus 
sericeus, rhagonica fulva, melolontha vulgaris, tenebrio mo- 
litor, geotrupes sylvestris, lophyrus pini, ophion, tettigonia 
’ viridis, haltica nemorum, formica rufa, lygaeus equestris, 
culex pipiens, eristalis tenax, é. floreus, sarcophaga carnaria, 
papilio machaon, cossus ligniperda, pontia brassicae, larva 
of euprepia, hyponomeuta evonymella, euprepia caja, and 
sphinx convolvuli. G: D. (A787) 
Scudder, S: Hubbard. An account of some 
insects of unusual interest from the tertiary 
rocks of Colorado and Wyoming. (Bull. U. 
S. geol. and geog. surv. terr., May 1878, v. 4, 
no. 2, p. 519-545.) 
Separate, with t.p. cover, Wash., 5 May 
1878, p. 519-545, 25 « 15, t 19 & 11.2. 
Notice. (Neues Jahrbuch fiir Mineralogie, 
Geologie und Palaeontologie, ... G. Leon- 
hard und H. B. Geinitz, 1878, p. 970.) 
Describes the following genera and species, all new ex- 
cept the phryganid genus indusia: prodryas persephone 
[nymphal et palembolus florigerus |hirmoneuridae], pa- 
rolamia rudis [cerambycidae), petrolystra gigantea Laphro- 
phorina), p. heros, lithymnetes guttatus ( phyllophoridcae], 
dysagrion fredericii (agrionina], egg-masses of corydalites 
Jecundum [sialina], holcorpa maculosa | panorpidae], larva- 
cases of indusia calculosa. B: P.M. (1788) 
