1896.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 19 



17. OfVERSIGT AF KONGL. VETENSKAPS-AKADEMIEIfS FORHANDLIN- 



CAR, Stockholm, 1895, No. 7. — Contributions to the knowledge of the 

 insect fauna of the Cameroons, iv. — Catalogue of the Hemiptera gathered 

 by Yngve Sjostedt in northwest Cameroons, C. J. E. Haglund. 



18. MiTTHEILUNGEN DER SCHWEIZERISCHEN ENTOMOLOGISCHEN Ge- 



SELLSCHAFT (Bulletin de la Soci^t^ Entomologique Suisse), Schaffhausen, 

 ix, pt. 5. — Dr. Standfuss' experiments on the influence of extreme tem- 

 peratures on butterflies, F. Ris. Continuation of Coleoptera Helvetiae. 



Ibid., ix, pt. 6. — The Papilionidae of North America in their relation 



to those of the Old Worle, H. Christ. Review of the other N. America^ 

 Diurnals in their relation to those of the Old World, ibid. 



19. The Zoological Record, volume the thirty-first, 1894, 8vo. Lon- 

 don, 1895. 



20. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, T. xx, Nos. 4-6. 

 — Male genital apparatus of the Hymenoptera (cent.), L. Bordas. 



21.. Lepidoptera Indica, F. Moore, part xxiii (deals with part of group 

 Charaxina of the Nymphalinae). 



22. Archives Italiennes de Biologie, Turin, x.xiv, fasc. 2. — The 

 weight of the cocoons of Bombyx tnori, from the commencement of their 

 •weaving to the birth of the moth, L. Luciana and L. TaruUi. [Brief ex- 

 tract from Atti della R. Accademia dei Georgofili, xviii, fasc. 2, 1895] 



23. The Entomologist. London, No. 391. — On the vertical distri- 

 bution of the Rhopalocera of the Alps, VV. Harcourt-Bath. 



24. The American Naturalist, December, 1895. —The classification 

 of the Lepidoptera on larval characters, H. G. Dyar. Stemmatoitilus as 

 an ordinal type, O. F. Cook. 



25. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, second series, 

 1895-96 [Extract] — Presidential Address: Practical Entomology, J. 

 Fletcher. 



26. BioLOGiA Centrali-Americana, Zoology, part 124. — Arachnida- 

 Araneidea, pp. 145-160, O. P. Cambridge. Coleoptera, vol. iv, pt. 6, pp. 

 49-80, pi. 3, D. Sharp. Lepidoptera-Heterocera, vol. ii, pp. 233-248, pis. 

 6r and 62, H. Druce. Rhyncota-Homoptera, vol. ii, pp. 89^112, pi. 7, 

 W. W. Fowler. 



27. Frail Children of the Air: Excursions into the World of Butterflies. 

 By Samuel Hubbard Scudder. Houghton, Miflflin & Co., Boston and 

 New York. Price I1.50. The book is composed of a number of essays 

 on butterflies under many diflferent titles, such as " Butterflies in Disguise; 

 a Study in Mimicry." " Deceptive Devices among Caterpillars." " But- 

 terflies as Botanists." " Butterfly Sounds." " Nests and other Structures 



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