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suit of ver>^ many experiments, made from August i6th to October 5th, 

 principally with caterpillars that were offered to the Missel-thrush, Night- 

 ingale, Stariing, Chaffinch, Rose-finch, Siskin, Waxbill, Skylark, Indigo- 

 finch, Sedge-warbler, Blackbird, Bulbul, Wryneck, Canar>-, Weaver-bird, 

 and several other birds. As a summary of these experiments he con- 

 cludes : "It is noteworthy, from an examination of the above records 

 that no inject in any stage, excepting the red-tailed bumble-bee (which, 

 by the way, I only offered to the Missel-thrush) was rejected by all my 

 birds ; those insects which were refused by certain species were eagerly 

 devoured by others, so that it was impossible to conclude that any of them 

 enjoyed perfect immunity from destruction. In the second place, so far 

 from my birds learning by experience to reject with scorn that which they 

 had proved to be unpalatable, I found that in some instances they seemed 

 to acquire a taste for larvae previously refused. Birds are very intelligent, 

 but their memories are ridiculously short." "A new species of Rhax" 

 [Rhax semiflava, from the Punjab] by R. I. Pocock. "A new species of 

 Glomeris from Borneo," \^Glomeris coticolor] by R. I. Pocock. " On the 

 Parasitic Castration of the Tvphlocvb^ by a Hymenopterous Larva 

 {Aphelopus melaleucus Dalm.) and by a Dipterous Larv-a {Atelenevra 

 spuria Meig.)," by M. A. Giard [A translation from Comptes Rendus, 

 Nov. 4, 1889, p. 708.] 



The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, December, 1889. — This 

 number contains the following : ' ' Triftircula palllidella in the Isle of Pur- 

 beck," by Eustace R. Bankes. " Remarks on Mr. James Edwards' list of 

 Norfolk Hemiptera," by Edward Saunders. "Second Supplement to 

 Annotated List of British Anthomviid^," by R. H. Meade \^Hydrotece- 

 Pegomyia.l "Synopsis of the British Orthoptera," by Eland Shaw [Pa- 

 chytylus- Tettix.'\ "The usual amount of collecting notes of local interest 

 are given space, and notes on "breeding Deilephila galii-^^ the wood- 

 pecker, "a destroyer of larvae of Tenzera yEsculi;'' the foods of Boarmia 

 rhotnboidaria, CEcophora stipella and Lygus viscicola ; and the bite of 

 Nabis limbatus. Reports of the proceedings of the Birmingham Ento- 

 mological Society, the South London Ent. and N. H. Soc, and the Ent. 

 Soc. of London, are followed by 27 pp. of table of contents and index. 



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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. LVIII, Part II, 

 Nos. I and II [Issued May-September, 1889;" received Philadelphia, Dec. 

 21, 1889] contains "A new species and genus of Coccid.e," \^Pseudopul- 

 vinaria Sikkhnensis] by E. T. Atkinson; Plate I, 14 figures. " Notes on 

 Indian Rhyncota ; Heteroptera, No. 5," by E. T. Atkinson; 149 species 

 are described, one species, Altcrodeuterus Dallasi, being new. " Notes 

 on Assam Butterflies," by Wm. Doherty ; Plate X, colored figures of 8 

 species; 5 new. A classification oi Euthalia and allies is proposed, based 

 on the costal vein of the forewing. This paper contains much of interest 

 to the student of this suborder. " Definitions of three new Homoptera," 

 .[Local species of the genus Idioceriis\ by E. T. Atkinson.— E. M. A. 



