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14. Revup: SciENTiFiQUK. Paris, Jan. 2, iSgj. — BMogy of Me/o/oniha, 

 X. Raspail. Jan. 22, Flies and mosquitoes as agents of contagion, J. H. 



15. Transactions of Nova Scotian Institute of Science, ix, pp. 

 208-218. — Preliminary notes on the Orthoptera of Nova Scotia, H. Piers. 

 Separates issued November, 1896. Received Jan. 25, 1897. 



16. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithso- 

 nian Institution to July, 1894. Washington, 1896. Received Feb. i, 

 1897. — Ants' nests, Dr. A. Forel (transl. from Neujahrsblatt Naturf. Gesell. 

 Zurich, 1893). 



17. Novitates Zoologic^, iii, 4. Tring, England, Dec. 29, 1896. — 

 New species of Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Uraniidae, Epiplemidae and 

 Geometridae in the Tring Museum. W. Warren. On mechanical selection 

 and other problems, K. Jordan, 4 pis. 



18. The Ottawa Naturalist, x, 9, December, 1896. — Fauna Otta- 

 waensis: Hymenoptera Parasitica— Proctotrypidae, W. H.. Harrington. 



19. The American Naturalist. Philadelphia, February, 1897. — 

 Nocturnal protective coloration of mammals, birds, fishes, insects, etc., 

 A. E. Verrill. A viviparous Ephemerid, M. Causard (from Ann. Mag. 

 Nat Hist.). 



20. Folkestone Natural History and Microscopical Society. 

 Proceedings for 1896. — Protective resemblance and other means of de- 

 fence in insects, with special reference to butterflies and moths, S. G. 

 Hills. Variation in the Lepidoptera and its causes. Dr. H. G. Knaggs. 



21. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, xxxix, 3-4. The Hague, Dec. 

 28, 1896. — List of Dutch Acari — ii, iii. Dr. A. C. Oudemans. Notes on 

 Acari, id. Some remarks on the further division of the genus Agrotis 

 Led , P. C. T. Snellen, i pi. On the geographical distribution of the 

 genus Siphotia Meig. , F. M. Van der Wulp. 



22 Comptes Rendus. l'Academie des Sciences. Paris, Jan. 4, 1897. 



— The Malpighian tubules of Orthoptera, L. Bordas. ^January 11. — On 



the relations of Discopotna comata Berlese with Lasius inixtus Nylander, 

 G. Janet, figs. 



23. Appletons' Popular Science Monthly. New York, February, 

 1S97. — How plants and animals spend the Winter, W. S. Blatchley. 



24. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sci' 

 ENCES xxxii, 9, January 1897. — The genera of North American Melano- 

 pli, S. H. Scudder. 



25. The International Journal of Microscopy and Natural 

 Science (3), vii, pt. 33. London, January, 1897. — What is a spider?. Dr. 



J. S. Walker, i pi. On the nature of supernumerary appendages in insects, 

 W. Bateson. British Hydrachnidae, pt. vii, C. D. Soar, i pi. 



