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Lepidoptera on a phyletic basis? Entomologische Nachrichten, Berlin, 

 Oct., '98. — Moore, F. Lepidoptera Indica, part xxxi. London: L. 

 Reeve & Co., 189S. [Nymphalinae, vol. iii, pp. 129-144, pis. 239-246]. — 

 R i b b e , C. Introduction to collecting butterflies in tropical countries, 

 84, Oct. 6, 13.— Schultz, O. Gynandromorphous (hermaphrodite) 

 Lepidoptera of the palaearctic fauna, 92.— S h a r p e , M. E. and 

 Christy, C. On a collection of Lepidopterous insects from San 

 Domingo*, Proceedings, Zoological Society of London, '98, part iii, 

 Oct. i. — Walsingham, Lord. Horn-feeding larvae, Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine, London, Nov., '98. 



Hynieiioptera.— A s h m e a d , W. H. Classification of the horn- 

 tails and sawflies, or the sub-order Phytophaga (paper No. 6)*, 4 ; Some 

 new genera of bees*, 5.— Beth e, A. How do ants retrace their way ? 

 87, Oct. 15. — Carpentier, L. Abnormal nervation of Tenthredinidae, 

 figs., 95. — C o c k e r e 1 1 , T. D. A. A bright red parasite of Coccidae*, 

 4. — Fo x , W. J. Contributions to a knowledge of the Hymenoptera of 

 Brazil, No. 5 Vespidae, Proceedings, Academy of Natural Sciences,. 

 Philadelphia, '98. — Howard, L. O. On some new parasitic insects of 

 the subfamily Encyrtinae*, 50, No. 1142. — Janet, C. On an unde- 

 scribed organ serving to close the venom- reservoir, and on the mode of 

 function of the sting of ants, 12. — Rudow. Relations of the sexes 

 in some Hymenoptera, 84, Oct. 27. — Seurat. L. G. On the respira- 

 tory apparatus of the larvae of entomophagous Hymenoptera, 12. — 

 Wasmann, E. — See Coleoptera. Weir, J. The herds of the yellow 

 ant, figs., Popular Science Monthly, New York, Nov., '98. 



A valuable paper by G. W. and E. G. Peckham, entitled " On the 

 Instincts and Habits of the Solitary Wasps," has just been issued by the 

 Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, forming Bulletin No. 

 2 (Scientific Series No. 1), of that department. While written in a popular 

 way, the work is full of facts for the scientific worker. It is fully illustrated 

 with 14 plates, the figures as a whole being rather well done ; but, strange 

 to say, all specimens figured are given 13-jointed antennae— a male 

 characteristic — while it is well known that the building and storing of 

 nests is always or usually done by the female. How impossible for the 

 male of Ammophila urnaria to sting a caterpillar as is shown on Plate 

 IV, and on Plate V we find the male sex of the same species represented 

 pounding down dirt over its (?) nest with a stone! Plate VII shows a 

 male of Pompilus quinquenotatus digging a nest, an impossible or ex- 

 tremely difficult operation for a male of that species. Aside from these 

 artistic inconsistencies the paper is the most important relating to the 

 habits of our wasps that has yet appeared. — W. J. F. 



Trypoxylon politum and T. neglectum have recently been raised from 

 the same nest by the Rev. Richard Kraus, of St. Vincent Abbey, Beatty 

 P. O., Penna., thus showing them to be sexes of the one species as had 

 been suspected. — Wm. J. Fox. 



