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produced from Wheeler (p. 355), that the embryonic number of Malpighian 

 tubules in Ephemeridea and Odonata has not been ascertained. In the 

 latter group the number is three, as first stated in the News for June, 

 '895, p. 181, and subsequently expressly confirmed by Heymons, who 

 also gives two as the number in embryonic may-flies. Yet these may be 

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Economic Entomology. — Anon. The pernicious Aspidiotus, Re- 

 vue Scientifique, Paris, April 23, '98. — Barrows. The present status 

 of the San ]os6 scale in Michigan, 75. — Bethune, C. J. S. Some 

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 as affecting received ideas on the hibernation of injurious insects, 75. — 

 Fletcher, J. The San Jose scale, figs., 75. — H arrington, W. H. 

 Notes on the insects of the year 1897, figs., 75.— Hopkins, A. D- 

 The periodical Cicada in West Virginia, figs., map, 4 pis. Bulletin 50, 

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 pillars on the Saguenay, Naturaliste Canadien, Chicoutimi (Quebec), 

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