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Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum, xvi, Nc. 950. Wash- 

 ington, 1893. — A descriptive catalogue of the harvest-spiders (Phalan- 

 giidse) of Ohio, C. M. Weed, 3 pis. — No. 951. Scientific results of the 

 U. S. Eclipse Expedition to West Africa, 1889-90. Report on the Insecta, 

 Arachnida and Myriapoda, C. V. Riley; including descriptive papers on 

 the Odonata, P. P. Calvert, figs., and Araneina, N. Banks, figs., and G 

 Marx, I pi. 



ZoE, iv, 3. San Francisco, Sept. 19, 1893. — The species o{ Amblychila, 

 J. J. Rivers, 2 pis. 



Psyche. Cambridge, Mass., November, 1893. — The primitive number 

 of Malpighian vessels in insects, vi, W. M. Wheeler. Note on a Scut- 

 telerid on native tobacco in Arizona, C. H. T. Townsend. Descriptions 

 of new species and genera of West African Lepidoptera, x, W. J. Holland, 

 2 pis. Descriptions of new aculeate Hymenoptera, W. J. Fox. 



Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, v, pp. 

 241 et seq. New York. October, 1893. — Descriptive catalogue of the but- 

 terflies found within fifty miles of New York City, together with a brief 

 account of their life-histories and habits, W. Beutenmiiller. 



Jahrbucher des Nassauischen Vereins fur Naturkunde. Jahr- 

 gang 46. Wiesbaden, 1893. — Ornithoptera schoenbergi n. sp. from the 

 Malay Archipelago, Dr. A. Pagenstecher, 3 pis. A lepidopterological 

 voyage around the world, Dr. A. Seitz. 



Compte Rendu. Societe de Biologie. Paris, Oct. 27, 1893. — Sphex 

 splendidulus da Costa [larval development], M. Nicolas. 



The Entomologist's Record. London, Oct. 15, 1893. — The Presi- 

 dent's address to the British Association considered in its relation to en- 

 tomology, J. W. Tutt. On the larva of Arctia caia, with special reference 

 to its correlated variations in plumage, moulting and hybernation, T. A. 

 Chapman, M.D. 



The Canadian Entomologist. London, Ont., November, 1893. — 

 The late Professor Westwood. Ed. The fourth annual meeting of the 

 Association of Economic Entomologists [with brief abstracts of the papers 

 read]. List of Coleoptera taken at Sparrow Lake, Ont., J. Hamilton, 

 ALD. New North American Homoptera, No. vi, E. P. Van Duzee. 

 Notes on a polymorphic butterfly, Synchloe laciniaGey&v (in Hub. Zutr.), 

 with description of its preparatory stages, W. H. Edwards. On a seem- 

 ingly microlepidopterous leaf-miner of the narrow-leaved cottonwood, C. 

 H. T. Townsend. Hybloea puera Cramer, T. D. A. Cockerell. 



The Ottawa Naturalist, November, 1893. — Fauna Ottawaensis, Hy- 

 menoptera Phytophaga, W, H. Harrington. 



Evolution and Taxonomy. — An essay on the application of the 

 theory of Natural Selection in the classification of animals and plants, il- 

 lustrated by a study of the evolution of the wings of insects and by a 



