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Zweiter Band. Familienreihe Staphylinoidea. I. Theil Staphylinidae, 

 Pselaphidffi. Mit 38 Holzschnittfiguren im Text. VVien, Carl Gerold's 

 Sohn, 1895, pp. vi, 881. 



15. Le Naturaliste. Paris, April 15, 1895.— Acridophagous birds, 

 M. Forest. 



16. BiOLOGiscHES Centralblatt. Erlangen, April 15, 1895.— Felix 

 Plateau's observations and experiments on the means of protection of 

 Abraxas grossulariaia, H. Tiebe. 



17. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie (7), xix, 4-6. 

 Paris, 1895.— Glandularapparatusofthe Hymenoptera (concl.), L. Bordas, 

 3 pis. 



18. La Nature. Paris, March 16, April 20, 1895.— Fossil insects of 

 Primary times, C. Brongniart, 3 figs. 



19. The Canadian Record of Science, vi, 2. Montreal, April, 1894 

 (received May 7, 1895). — Ancient Myriapods, G. F. Matthew. 



20. Notes from the Leyden Museum, xvi, 3-4, July-October, 1894 

 (received May 7, 1895).— Descriptions of some new Brenthids, A. Senna. 



21. Knowledge. London, May i, 1895.— The Winter-life of insects— 

 ii, E. A. Butler, figs. 



22. Jahrbuch der konigl. preussischen geologischen Lande- 

 SANSTALT UNO Bergakademie zu BERLIN, xiv, 1 894. — lusect borings in 

 the brown coal of Brandenburg, O. von Gellhorn, i pi. 



23. The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 

 1895, pt. I, April 25, 1895. — A list of the Lepidoptera of the Khasia hills, 

 part iii. Col. C. Swinhoe. Notes on the fungus growing and eating habit 

 of Sericomyrniex opacus Mayr, F. W. Urich. On the Longicorn Cole- 

 optera of the West India Islands, C. J. Gahan. Life-history of Pericoma 

 canescens (Psychodidae), Prof. L. C. Miall and N. Walker, 2 pis.; with a 

 bibliographical and critical appendix, Baron Osten Sacken. Questions 

 bearing on specific stability, F. Galton. 



24. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1894. pt. 

 iv, April I, 1895. — Descriptions of new species of Coleoptera of the genera 

 Oedionychus and Asph^ra, M. Jacoby. 



25. The Entomologist. London, May, 1895. — On the causes of va- 

 riation and aberration in the imago state of butterflies, with suggestions 

 on the establishment of new species (cont.), Dr. M. Standfuss, translated 

 by F. A. Dixey. A catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Ireland (cont.), W. 

 F. deV. Kane. Those "jumping eggs," C. C. Hopley. 



26. Psyche. Cambridge, May, 1895. — On a rational nomenclature of 

 the veins of insects, especially those of Lepidoptera, A. S. Packard, figs. 

 The genus Oxyptila, N. Banks. CoHas hecla, H. Skinner. 



