_ other bees there is no pressure to produce the rhomboid pits ; 
_ direct observation of the formation of a comb was not re 
_ by any indications of pressure; no reasonable amount of pressure 
alag walls of cells seems to have any effect in altering their 
_ The author thinks that Darwin has erred in supposing that the 
_ cells have at first the forms which they have later on, whereas 
this is by no means the case; at first there are nothing but 
_thomb-shaped spaces, the size of which is gradually increased. 
Compare also the statements made by Packard in “ Guide to the 
_ Study of Insects,” pp. 121-122, as to the way in which Polistes 
7 begins its cells. 
_ Eytomorocicat Nores.—The Bulletin of the Brooklyn Ento- 
ical Society for October republishes Herrich-Scheeffer's 
se why a well-conducted, responsible journal, well edited, free 
from crotchets, with articles and departments representing amt 
m systematic, biological and economic cr apse , wou 
r Fernald e ayei 
should be So penarally ignored, though pe peona ~ 
after a fashion described ; Mr. Smith stating that Hibner's _ apts 
of Noctuidz would not hold, Professor F ernald added that ab 
Wtricide “ Gueace has just as many baseless genera 2 veal 
