482 Bibliographical Notices. 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 
An Elementary Manual of New-Zealand Entomology. By G. V. 
Hupsoy, F.E.S. With 21 coloured plates. 8vo, 128 pp. 
London: West, Newman, and Co. 
Tuts little book bears a somewhat misleading title. The text 
consists mainly of a‘series of short descriptions of the habits and 
metamorphoses of various New-Zealand insects. This branch of 
the subject, dealing with the life-histories of insects, is well 
treated, and the descriptions, being based to a great extent upon 
the author’s own observations, are likely to prove a useful addition 
to entomological literature. In a Manual of Entomology, however, 
we look for a better treatment of the anatomy and classification of 
insects than is to be found in the half-dozen pages allotted to them 
in the present volume. A few such statements as that “the 
functions of the antenne are, at present, extremely doubtful,” and 
the reference to the Malpighian tubes as “biliary vessels,” suffi- 
ciently prove that, on the physiological side of his subject, the 
author might with advantage have consulted some good modern 
text-book of biology or entomology. 
The amateur would not miss much, in fact, by passing over the 
first chapter, which is somewhat curiously headed ‘ General Obser- 
vations.” In the second chapter “on collecting” he will find some 
useful hints. The remaining chapters, which, with the plates, 
form almost the entire bulk of the volume, contain the descriptions 
certain respects in close connexion with the statements of K.C. Schneider 
(“ Ein Beitrag zur Phylogenie der Organismen,” Biol. Centralbl. xi. Bd., 
pp. 739-744, Dec. 31, 1891). I expressed these views many years ago in 
various papers (among others “Die ]ebende Materie und die Indvidual- 
itdit” (in Hungarian), Budapesti Szemle, 1884), and in a series of lectures 
as Privatdozent at the University of Budapest (1888), as also recently in 
my capacity as a professor at Kolozsyar. A portion of these latter lectures 
appeared last year in a series of articles in the ‘Sitzungsberichten der 
mathem.-naturw., SektiondesSiebenbiirgischen Museumvereins,’ under the 
title of “‘ Die einzelligen Lebewesen von dem Gesichtspunkte der Viel- 
zelligen.” A summary of my results in German will be published in the 
next part of the above-mentioned ‘ Sitzungsberichte.’ Shortly stated, my 
theory regards the (non-organized) Protoblasts (=“ Zoen” of K. C. 
Schneider) as units of the third stage (third power) of matter in general 
(the first power are the atoms in the elements, the second power the 
molecules in the chemical compounds), and naturally, as living units of 
the first stage. The foregoing paper, which reproduces some of the results 
alluded to, was written immediately after the appearance of Frenzel’s 
article in this Magazine, and only extraneous circumstances prevented me 
from sending it to the press sooner, 
