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as it will be useless. Dont pack the springy material so tightly between 

 the two that it is useless as a preventive of jarring. Don't have them 

 come in contact on one side or on the bottom. If the specimens are 

 many and the box large, send by express. Small packages may be sent 

 in comparative safety- by packing the box containing your specimens in a 

 large amount of excelsior cotton, etc., loosely around the box and then 

 making into a bundle by enclosing the whole with hardware paper or other 

 strong and heavy paper; in this way the postage on the heavy outer box 

 is saved. It is a good plan to always put a nice layer of raw cotton over 

 the cork, but never put this over the top of the specimens. When send- 

 ing Coleoptera with heavy bodies, or moths, always secure tiie body by a 

 wisp of cotton, which should be put on as follows: Take a wisp the re- 

 quired length and tease it out about one-half inch in width; run the pin 

 through on end and give it a couple turns around the pin so that it holds 

 tightly and lies close to the place where the pin issues from the thorax, 

 then bring it around the end of the abdomen and then fasten to the pin 

 above by a couple of turns. If the bodies are very large, as in the 

 Sphinges, a pin should be placed on either side to prevent them swinging 

 around on the pin. Always remember if one becomes loose it ruins 

 many, and that "one fine, faultless specimen is worth no end of trash." 

 Neuroptera Odonata should always have a bristle passed through the ab- 

 domen into the thorax when fresh, otherwise they are almost always broken 

 of} in transportation. Always put your name and full address on the box. 



Entomological Literattire. 



H.\rdwicke's Science Gossip (London), December, 1891. — An intro- 

 duction to the study of British Diptera, E. Brunetti, figs. European but- 

 terflies, R. B. P. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History (London), December, 

 1891. — On the structure of the ocelli of Lithobius, V. Willem. 



Monograph of Oriental Cicadid^ by W. L. Distant. Part iv, pp. 

 73-96, pis. 7-9.* London, Calcutta, Berlin, September, 1891. 



CoMPTE Rendu. Societe Entomologique de Belgique, Nov. 7, '91. 

 — Causeries Odonatologiques, No. 5: Two new groups of Agrionina 

 from Madagascar, Ne'solestes and Nesocnemis* E. de Selys Longchamps. 

 Note on Amara convexior Steph. or continua Thorn., A. P. de Borre. 



Canadian Entomologist, December, 1891. — List of writings of the 

 late Henry Edwards, W. Beutenmiiller. [This list does not contain Mr. 

 Edwards' paper " Inguromorpha Slossonii Hy. Edw.," published in Ent. 

 News, vol. ii, pp. 71-72, April, 1891, and which was probably the last 

 he ever wrote.] A catalogue of the Thysanoura of North America, A. 



♦ Contains new species other than North American. 



