216 
INSECTA. 
(not reported in Rep. Br. Ass.). The author enters at some length 
upon the structure of the stomach, oesophageal epithelium, &c. of insects 
in various stages. 
Ebell^ a. J. About Insects^ and how to observe tbem. 
Salem^ Mass. : 1873_, 12mo, pp. 75, 36 woodcuts. 
An elementary Treatise on structure and classification. 
Fitch, Asa. Twelfth Report on the noxious, beneficial, and 
other insects of the State of New York ; in Transactions of 
the New York States Agricultural Society, xxvii. (for 
1867; 1868 on title), pp. 889-932. 
Contains observations on the economy of Ceresa bubalus, F., Gypona 
Jlavilineata, Fitch, G. octolineata^ Say {Homoptera) ; Alaria florida, 
Guen., A. volupia, sp. n., pp. 907 & 908, Indian Territory west of 
Arkansas (Noctuidce ; Lep.) ; Pristopliora rufipes (?), St. F., and Nematus 
3-maculatus, St. F. (Tenthredinidce ; Hym.), — on the last, at great 
length. 
This and other reports by the same author have hitherto escaped 
record both in Zool. Rec. and in Rec. Am. Ent. The 13th Report, 
however, was published in 1869, op. cit. p. 494, and the 14th in 1870, 
op. cit. p. 355 [from notice in Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iii. p. civ. There is 
no Report in the vol. of Trans. N. Y. Agric. Soc. for 1871]. 
Gerstaeckee, a. In ^ Barou Carl Claus von der Decken^s 
Reisen in Ost- Africa in den Jahren 1859-1865.' Dritter 
Band: Wissenschaffcliche Ergebnisse. Zweite Abthei- 
lung : Glisderthiere (Insekten, Arachniden, Myriopoden, 
und Isopoden). Leipzig & Heidelberg: 1873. 4to, 
pp. 542, pis. 18. 
The Insecta occupy 460 pages, and 17 pis., discussing the Orthoptera, 
Coleoptera^ Ilymenojjtera, Lepidoptera^ Diptera, and Hejniptera, met with 
during the above-mentioned travels. Many species, and a few genera, 
are most improperly declared to be new, although they were characterized 
by the author in Arch. f. Nat. xxxvii. (1871). General observations are 
made (pp. 438-455) on the Insect-fauna of the Zanzibar district, and on 
the distribution of the Insecta in Africa, and (pp. 456-460) on the charac- 
ter of the Insect-fauna of Madagascar. 
GiRAED, MAUiacE. Les Insectes; Traite elementaire d'ento- 
mologie, comprenant Fhistoire des especes utiles et de 
leurs produits, des especes nuisibles et des moyens de les 
detruire, I'etude des metamorphoses et des moBurs, les 
precedes de chasse et de conservation. I. Introduction 
(pp. 1-240). Coleopteres (pp. 241-840). Paris: 1873, 
large 8vo, with atlas of 60 pis. 
In addition to the points specified in the title, the first part contains 
accounts of the anatomy and physiology, nervous system, instinct and 
intelHgencc, geographical distribution, and classification of insects, and a 
cliapter on insects considered palreontologically. There is also a supple- 
