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which is new. The beautiful plates illustrate 

 the species. Dr. Hansen has described the 

 mouth-parts and compared them to the allied 

 genus, Stomoxys, the stable-fly of this country 

 and Europe. A map is given showing the 

 known distribution of Glossina in Africa. 



It may be added that Lieut. Col. Bruce, who 

 worked out the life history of the trypano- 

 some of Nagana, has lately discovered that 

 another species of tse-tse fly, 0. palpalis, is 

 the carrier of the trypanosome of sleeping 

 sickness. 



Dr. Adolph Lutz has published an account 

 of the life history of an injurious Brazilian 

 Anopheles* This mosquito, which is the 

 carrier of the germ of an intermittent fever, 

 is a small species of Anopheles, A. lutzi Theo- 

 bald. In the locality where the sickness oc- 

 curred there are very few pools of stagnant 

 water. Dr. Lutz, therefore, sought for other 

 breeding places, and found the larva of this 

 species in the cavities of various epiphytic 

 plants of the family Bromeliacese. He also 

 found the larva of a Megarhinus feeding upon 

 the other culicid larvee. Two species of Culex 

 were also bred from the water in the cavities 

 of these plants. The article shows the diffi- 

 culty in the tropics of localizing the breeding 

 places of mosquitoes. 



JVIr. C. T. Brues has added considerably to 

 our linaited knowledge of the Stylopidse. f 

 From Texan species of Polisies which he kept 

 in confinement he obtained females and bred 

 males of two new species of Xenos {X. pal- 

 lidus and X. nigrescens). Upon these, and 

 a large series of X. pecki collated in Con- 

 necticut by Dr. Wheeler, Mr. Brues has made 

 a study, principally of the early stages of the 

 embryo and the origin of the eggs. He finds 

 no similarity between the Stylopidse and the 

 Coleoptera, and concludes that the former 

 should form a separate order of insects — the 

 Strepsiptera. 



The second volume of Bingham's ' Hymen- 



* ' Waldmosquitos urid Waldmalaria,' Gentralbl. 

 f. Bakter. Parasitenh. u. Infektionslcrankheiten, 

 Bd. XXXIII., pp. 282-292, 1903, figs. 



t ' A Contribution to our knowledge of the 

 Stylopidoe,' Zool. Jahrh., Abt. f. Anat., Vol. 

 XVIII., pp. 241-270, 1903. 



optera of British India ' * contains the ants 

 and cuckoo (or golden) wasps. There are 398 

 species of ants described, representing prob- 

 ably one of the largest ant-faunas in the 

 world. There are many notes of a very inter- 

 esting nature on the habits of some of the 

 ants. Of the cuckoo-wasps (Chrysididse) 79 

 species are described. The colored plate shows 

 some of these handsome insects. 



Dr. J. Vosseler has given an, attractive ac- 

 count of his studies on the Orthoptera of 

 Algeria and Tunis.f The first part contains 

 notes on the physical condition of the country, 

 the role of wind in the distribution of the 

 forms, and an annotated catalogue of the 

 species (224 in number). Part second has a 

 chapter on the distribution of these species in 

 the Mediterranean fauna, one on the mark- 

 ings and adaptive appearances in Acridiidte, 

 notes on the squirting of blood by various 

 species, and on the odor-glands in one genus 

 — CEdaleus. 



The squirting of blood, or the body-fluid, is 

 considered as a means of defense. In 

 Eugaster there is a hole in the legs near the 

 coxa through which the blood is forced; in 

 Plaiystolus there is a slit at the posterior jjart 

 of the pronotum. Many of the species are 

 confined to desert regions, and of these a 

 number are protectively colored when at rest, 

 yet when flying display the brilliant colors 

 on their hind wings. Some of the species 

 vary considerably, and one colored plate, is 

 devoted to the variations in Eremohia crista 

 Fabr. 



Dr. C. G. Attems has published a synopsis 

 of the geophilid myriapods of the world.:): It 

 consists of a chapter on the structure of the 

 family, a synopsis to genera and species of 

 the pala3arctic forms, a catalogue of the 

 species of other countries, and descriptions 

 of many new species, mostly non-European. 

 Altogether about 290 species are mentioned. 



■" ' The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon 

 and Burma; Hymenoptera,' Vol. II., London, 

 1903, 506 pp., 1 pi., 161 figs. 



f ' Beitriige zur Faunistik und Biologie der 

 Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens,' Zool. 

 Jalir., Abt. f. Syst., Vol. XVI., pp. 338^04, 2 

 pis.: Vol. XVII., pp. 1-98, 3 pis., 1902. 



% ' Synopsis der Geophiliden,' Zool. Jahr., Abt. 

 f. Syst., Vol. XVIII., pp. 155-302, 6 pis., 1903. 



