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same precious stump occurred the fragments of six-footed insects 
preserved in the coprolites of the lizards that once ran up and 
down those trees. The fragments of galley worms were described 
by Dawson under the name of Xylobius Sigillariæ. On subject- 
ing them to farther examination, Mr. Scudder finds there were in 
reality, portions of three other species of Xylobius, and a species 
of a new genus, which he also thinks should form the type of a 
new family. It is described in the “ Memoirs of the Boston 
Society of Natural History,” under the name of Archiulus xylobi- 
oides, and the family is called Archiulide. The insects found with 
em, but in too small pieces to be recognizable, belonged to the 
Orthoptera and Neuroptera. 
Tue Discovery or THE ORIGIN OF THE STING OF THE BEE.— 
In Siebold and Kölliker’s “ Journal of Scientific Zoology” for July, 
1872, containing an account of the Proceedings of the Zoological 
division of the 3rd meeting of the Russian Association of Nat- 
uralists, at Kiew, is an abstract of a paper by Ouljanin on the 
development of the sting of the bee. The author describes but 
two pairs of imaginal disks, while three were discovered and de- 
scribed by the undersigned in 1866. The author homologizes the 
elements of the sting with the feet, as had already been done by 
me in 1871. Soon afterwards Dr. C. Kraepelin published an elab- 
Orate article on the structure, mechanism and developmental 
history of the sting of the bee. In speaking of the origin of the 
sting (p. 320, vol. 23, 1873), he only refers to Ganin’s observa- 
tions made in vol. 19, of the same journal (1869). Dr. Kraepelin 
Seems to have overlooked the writers’ papers* on the origin of 
the sting of the bee and ovipositor of other insects (Æschna and 
i Agrion) published in 1866 and 1868, the observations and draw- 
_ Ings having been made in 1863.— A. S. PACKARD, Jr. 
DEEP SEA DREDGINGS IN THE GULF or St. Lawrence.— Mr. 
J. F. Whiteaves records in the March number of the ‘* American 
* Observations on the Development and Position of the Hymenoptera, with notes on 
the Morphology of Insects, Proceedings Boston Society N. H., published May, 1866. 
OP the Structure of the Ovipositor and Homologous parts in the male Insect. 
y iety, N. H. vol. xi, published in 1868. Guide to the Study of 
pects, 1869, pp. 14, 536. Embryological Studies on Diplax, Perithemis, and the 
Thysanurous genus Isotoma. Memoirs Peabody Academy of Science, 1871, p. 20. 
Poduridæ is! logized with a pair of blades of the ovipositor 
ith the spi ts of spi- 
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ders and ab dominal feet of myriopods. 
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