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rope. His visit to this country is simply for the purpose of rest and re- 

 cuperation. He proposes in the later Winter or early Spring to return 

 again to explore the islands lying north and east of New Gumea, to again 

 visit New Guinea, and then to explore Hainan, Formosa and the interior 

 of China. After that, if spared, he may attack East Africa and Madagas- 

 car, or possibly will devote himself to a thorough exploration of the east- 

 ern foot hills and slopes of the Andes in South America. These are the 

 projects which he is discussing with his friends. He has spent the Sum- 

 mer with his relatives at a watering place in Maine, and four weeks with 

 his brother-in-law. Prof. J. S. Hart, of Cornell University. He came from 

 Ithaca to spend a few days with Dr. Holland, who possesses, in his great 

 collection, large portions of the insects collected by Mr. Doherty in the 

 East. Mr. Doherty's collections are found mainly in those great assem- 

 blages of insect marvels, which have been made by Baron Rothschild and 

 Messrs. Elwes and Druce in England, by Oberthur, in France, and by 

 Dr. Holland, of Pittsburgh. — Pittsburgh Gazette. 



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Entomological Literatuire. 



The Annals and Magazine of N.\tural History. London, De- 

 cember, 1893. — A contribution to the morphology of the limbs and mouth- 

 parts of crustaceans and insects, Dr. H.J. Hansen [trans, from Zoolog- 

 ischer AnzeigerJ. On the cerebral nuclei of Myriapods, J. Chatin [transl. 

 from Comptes Rendus]. 



Transactions of the Kansas Acade.my of Science (1891-92), xiii. 

 Topeka, 1893. — Notes on the elementary comparative external anatomy 

 of insects, V. L. Kellogg. Insects Notes, id, figs. On the the horse flies 

 of New Mexico and Arizona, C. H. T. Townsend. On a peculiar Acal- 

 yptrate Muscid found near Turkey Tanks, Ariz., id. 



Nova Acta der Kais. Leopoldino-Carolin^ Deutschen Akad- 

 emie der Naturforscher, Iviii, 4. Halle, 1892. — .Systema Geometra- 

 rum zonje temperatioris septentrionalis: Systematic revision of the span- 

 worms of the north temperate zone, C. F. von Gumppenberg. Part V. 



