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from the New Mexico Biological Station, No. iv. Diptera from the Sac- 

 ramento and White Mountains in southern New Mexico, i, C. H. T. 

 Townsend. The physiological importance of the air-spaces in flying ani- 

 mals, R. von Lendenfeld (transl. from Biol. Centrbl. Nov. i, 1896). 



16. Records of the Australian Museum, iii, i. Sydney, Jan. 7, 

 1897. — Additional localities for Peripaius /fuckariii Sang., the late F. A. 

 A. Skuse. 



17. Natural Science. London, February, 1897— Are the Arthro- 

 poda a natural group?, Capt. F. W. Hutton, H. M. Bernard, G. H. 

 Carpenter, C. Claus, H. J. Hansen, A. von Jaworowski, J. S. Kingley, 

 M. Laurie, R. L Pocock, T. R. R. Stabbing. The scientific arrangement 

 of insect collections. 



18. Experi.ment Station Record, viii, 5. U. S. Dep't of Agriculture, 

 Washington, 1897. — Summaries of recent papers on economic entomology. 



19. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, Ixii, i, 2. Berlin, November, 

 1896. — On the abdomen of the Scolytidse, a contribution to the compara- 

 tive morphology of the hind body of the Coleoptera, Dr. C. \'erhoefF. 

 figs., 2 pis. 



20. Bulletin 124. Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. 

 Ithaca, N. Y. January, 1897. — The pistol-case bearer in western New 

 York, M. V. Slingerland, figs., i pi. 126. February, 1897. — The cur- 

 rant-stem girdler and the raspberry-cane maggot, M. V. Slingerland, figs. 



21. Le Naturaliste Canadien. Chicoutimi, Quebec, January, 1897. 

 — Coleopterological fauna of Manitoba (cont.), G. Chagnon. 



22. Contributions from the Department of Zoology and Ento- 

 mology, Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Reprint 

 from Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci., iii. Des Moines, 1S96. — A study of the genus 

 Clastoptera, E. C. Ball, 4 pis. Observations on the Cicadidae of Iowa, H. 

 Osborn. i pi. Biologic notes on certain Iowa insects, H. Osborn and C. 

 W. Mally, figs. Contributions to a knowledge of the Thripsidae of Iowa, 

 A. M. Beach. Note on a new species of Phloeothrips, with description, 

 H. Osborn. 



23. Archiv fur Mikroscopische Anatomie, xlviii, 4. Bonn, Jan. 

 28, 1897. — On the structure of the nuclei in the spinning glands of cater- 

 pillars, Dr. F. Meves, i pi. 



24. Bulletin de l'Academie des Sciences, des Lettres et des 

 Beaux Arts de Belgique (3) xxxiii, i. Brussels, 1897. — How flowers 

 attract insects — experimental researches, part 3, F. Plateau. 



25. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South 

 Wales (2) x, 4. Sydney, April 29. 1896. — Notes on Cicadas, W. W. 

 Froggatt. — 1896, I. July 16, 1896. The entomology of the grass trees 

 {Xanihorrhoea), W. W. Froggatt, i pi. Observations on Peripatus, T. 



