60 General Notes. [January, 



explained. A new edition of Brehm's Thierleben, with 170 



chromo-lithograph plates, is to be issued in 140 weekly parts, at 

 36 cents each, postpaid. B. Westermann & Co., of New York, 



are the agents in this country. An annotated list of the birds 



of Nevada, by W. A. Hoffman, appears in the Bulletin of Hayden's 

 U. S. Geological Survey, Vol. vi. It is prefaced by remarks on 

 the distribution of vegetation in Nevada, as affecting that of the 



avi-fauna, and is accompanied by interesting profile views. A 



valuable illustrated paper on the comparative anatomy and the his- 

 tology of the brain, and more particularly of the epiphysis cerebri 

 of Plagiostomes, Ganoids and Teleostei, by Dr. T. Th. Catter, gives 

 us .some apparently excellent drawings of the brains of Raya 

 clavata, Acanthias vulgata, Galeus cams, Acipoiser sturio, Gadus 

 morrhua, Cyclopterus lumpus, and the common eel, which will be 



found very useful to naturalists in this country. The Zo'dlo- 



gischer Anzeiger, for Nov. 14, contains a summary of new re- 

 searches by Salensky, on the embryonal development of Salpa, 



and several articles on the intestinal worms. Prof. Haeckel 



has gone to Ceylon on a scientific journey. A new zoological 



station, to serve as a winter laboratory, and as an annex to the 

 sea-side laboratory founded by Lacaze Duthiers at Roscoff, is to 

 be opened at Banyuls-sur-Mer, on the Mediterranean. The 

 building, says Nature, will be of considerable size, and the aqua- 

 rium will be lighted by electricity. An English adaptation of 



Claus' " Handbuch der Zoologie," by Mr. Adam Sedgwick, of 

 Trinity College, Cambridge, with the addition of 500 to 600 

 drawings by Prof. Claus himself, b to be published by W. Swan, 



Sonnenschein & Co., London. A hand-book of Vertebrate 



Dissection, by Prof. H. Newell Martin and William A. Moale, 

 M.D., Part 1, How to dissect a Chelonian, is announced as pub- 

 lished by Macmillan & Co. 



ENTOMOLOGY.' 



On Some Curious Methods of Chalcid Pupation.— In the 

 course of two years' study of the Chalcididae, I have met with 

 several anomalies connected with pupation, which seem to be 

 worthy of description, and to which, so far as I can learn, with a 

 single exception, the attention of entomologists has not been 

 called. 



One of the most curious of these instances, and one which 

 has excited the greatest interest among my entomological 

 friends to whom I have shown the specimens, is the case of a 

 larva of Phoxopteris divisana Walk., an oak-feeding Tortricid, 

 which has been parasited by an Euplectrus. The species I have 

 called in MS. E. albitrophis and the method of pupation is so 

 similar to that of E. comstockii, graphically described by Mr. 



^his department is edited by Prof. C. V. Riley, Washington, D. C, to whom 



