entomological news. [February, 



Entomological Society of London, 1897, pt. iv, Dec. 16 — 50. Proceed- 

 ings of the U. S. National Museum, xx, Washington, '97. — 51. Novitates 

 Zoological, iv, 3. Tring, England, Dec. 3, '97— 52. Transactions of the 

 S. African Philosophical Society, x, 1. Cape Town, '97—53. Transac- 

 tions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, xxix, Wellington, 

 June, '97. — 54. |ournal of the Royal Horticultural Society, xxi, 2. Lon- 

 don, Dec, '97.-55. Le Naturaliste, Paris, '97.-56. Mittheilungen der 

 schweizerischen entomologischen Gesellschaft, x, t. Schaffhausen, Nov., 

 '97. — 57. Ergebnisse der Hamburger Magalhaensischen Sammelreise 

 herausgegeben vom Naturhistorischen Museum zu Hamburg, ii, '97. — 

 58. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural. Fundada el i° de Octobre, 

 1897. Director i Redactor: Carlos E. Porter. Colaboran distinguidos 

 especialistas nacionales i estranjeros. Valparaiso. This is a new journal 

 of which two numbers have reached us, those for October and November, 

 1S97. It proposes to deal with the fauna, flora, geology and mineralogy 

 of Chile, and particularly of the province of Valparaiso, to publish original 

 papers and bibliographical notices on biological subjects, to facilitate ex- 

 change of specimens of natural history and to form a taste for such studies 

 in Chile In the number for November it is announced that the Revista 

 will hereafter also be the organ of the Museo de Valparaiso. 



The General Subject.— The Zoological Record, volume the Thirty- 

 Third. Being Records of Zoological Literature relating chiefly to the 

 year 1S96. Edited (for the Zoological Society of London) by David 

 Sharp. London. Printed for the Society; .... 1897. Arachnida, Myrio- 

 poda and Prototracheata by A. W. Brown, Insecta by D. Sharp.— [Be - 

 thune, C. J. S.] James Fletcher, portrait, 4. — Dixey, F. A. Sum- 

 mary of Dr. Standfuss' experiments on hybridization, 36, Proceedings; 

 Mr. Merrifield's experiments on the relation of temperature to variation, 

 figs., Nature, London, Dec. 23, '97. — Fleischmann, A. Lehrbuch der 

 Zoologie. Nach morphogenetischen Gesichtspunkten bearbeitet. Spezi- 

 eller Teil: ii, Die Wirbellosen Tiere. Wiesbaden, C. W. Kreidel's Verlag. 

 1898. — Goeldi, E. A. Noteworthy mimicry in a Brazilian spider of the 

 genus Cyclosa, 1 pi. Zoologische Jahrbiicher, x, 5, Jena, Nov. 26, '97 — 

 [Henshaw, S.] George Henry Horn, 5. — J ou tel et al. [Brief notes] 

 see Proceedings of the New Vork Entomological Society for 1897 in 6. — 

 Morse, A. P. Pacific coast collecting, 5. — Phisalix, C. Antago- 

 nism between the venom of the Vespidae and that of the Viper, the first 

 a vaccine against the second, 13, Dec. 4. — Plateau , F. How flowers 

 attract insects— experimental researches, parts iv, v, 1 pi. Bulletins de 

 I'Academie royale de Belgique (3), xxxiii, 9-10, 11, Brussels, '97. — Por- 

 ter, C. E. Data on the Arthropods of the province of Valparaiso, 58, 

 Nov.; Id. and Edwards, A. [same], 58, Oct.— Tutt, J. W. Some 

 considerations of natural genera, and incidental references to the nature 

 of species. Proceedings South London Entom. and Nat. Hist. Society, 

 '97. — W e b b , S. A freak of nature : Lasiocampa trifolii [andromor- 

 phous female], 8. 



