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head-canals of the bee-embryo, and both the tracheæ and mal- 
pighian tubes be proved homologous with the nephridia of the 
annelids ; 
Ne From such a view Emery dissents: he thinks the relation of 
these organs in Peripatus are not consistent, since in that animal 
occur both nephridia and trachea, unless we suppose that the 
trachez of Peripatus and of the other arthropods are not equiva- 
lent. If one accepts the fact that the trachez and the malpighian 
tubes have originated from diffusely distributed cutaneous glands, 
then one could further suppose that their openings unite later 
with the openings of the nephridia, by which means they assumed 
a segmental arrangement. But, however, it is not at all neces- 
sary to make the nephridia arise from the ectoderm, which would 
contradict all the researches hitherto made. 
Lintner’s SEconp REPORT AS STATE ENTOMOLOGIST oF NEW 
à viceable to the farmers of New York. i 
o The State should be more liberal in affording illustrations for 
so important and useful a report, those not reproduced being 
poorly drawn and engraved. This is not the fault of the ento- 
mologist, and should not be under the control of the State 
inters. 
Eyromorocicat News.—At the meeting of the French Acad- 
_emy for Jan. 25, M. J. Chatin read a note on the comparative 
- morphology of the labium in Hymenoptera. In the Balio 
of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences (Vol. v, 1), De. DS 
Kellicott describes as new Nonagria subcarnea, and compares its 
larva with that of Sphida obliquata———In the Canadian Ento- 
mologist for January Mr. Herbert Osborn publishes a useful ee 
liminary list of the species of mites of North America.. 
_ Entomologica Americana for March, D. W. Coquillet gives a ae 
_ opsis, with descriptions of new species, of our species O 
__ that certain seed-feeding Coleophora larva, which remain ten 
_ eleven months, and sometimes even longer, in a dormant state, 
bylid flies of the genus Toxophora. Miss M. Murtfeldt — 
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