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Clark is quoted as stating that in this region “ the antelope is said 
to have an abiding hatred for the rattlesnake, which it decoys first 
into a striking attitude and then utterly annihilates by leaping into 
e air and coming down upon the snake with its four sharp- 
cutting hoofs placed together.” (See the illustration in the NAT- 
URALIST On p. 179. 
The birds are being treated in the same manner as the mam- 
“mals by Messrs. Salvin and Godman; the reptiles, amphibians 
and fishes, by Dr. Günther ; the mollusks, by Dr. E. von Martens ; 
the crustacea, by Professor Huxley; the arachnida, by Rev. O. P. 
Cambridge; the coleoptera, by H. W. Bates and others, including 
r. D. Sharp and C. O. Waterhouse; the hymenoptera, by P. 
Cameron ; the butterflies, by Godman and Salvin, and the moths 
by H. Druce; the neuroptera, by Mr. McLachlan ; the orthoptera, 
in part, by J. Wood Mason, and the rhynchota, by W. L. Distant. 
The botanical portion is entirely in the hands of Mr. W. B. 
Hensley, . 
positions and their attachments. With the above-mentioned 
; h : 
verse sections of the proboscis and longitudinal sections, showing 
i 1 ty of the mouth-parts and of the sucking apparatus of some Dipter: 
Dissertation for the purpose of obtaining the Philosophical Doctorate at the Leip- 
2g University, By GEorGE Dimmock. Boston, A. Williams & Co., 1881. 4to, pp- 
50. 4 plates, 
ae Memes Munddele. Trophi Dipterorum. Af Fr. MEINERT. Kjõbenhavn, 1881. 
» PP. 91. 6 plates. 
dere Aenntniss der mundtheile der Dipteren. Von EDUARD BECHER. Beson- 
abgedruckt aus dem xiv. Bande der Denkschriften der Math.-Naturwissen, 
Classe der K. Akad. der Wissenschaften. Wien, 1882. 4to, pp. 42+ 4 plates. 
