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INSECTA. 
(Packard, Junr._, Alpheus S.) Third Annual Report on the 
Injurious and Beneficial Insects of Massachusetts, made 
to the State Board of Agriculture. Salem, Mass. : 1873, 
8vo, pp. 27, 15 woodcuts. 
Reprinted, with corrections, under the title ' Injurious and Beneficial 
Insects ' ; Am. Nat. vii. pp. 524-548. Insects injurious to the straw- 
berry and bean, fruit and forest trees, and a few beneficial species are 
discussed, chiefly as to the larval state. 
. Directions for collecting and preserving Insects. Sm. 
Misc. Coll. No. 261 (Sept. 1873), pp. 60, 55 woodcuts. 
Much of this is from the author's ' G-uide to the Study of Insects.' 
Ferris, Edouard. Les Oiseaux et les Insectes. Mem. 
Liege (2) iii. [1873], pp. 673-730. 
The above is the publication reference of this paper, noticed in Zool. 
Rec. ix. p. 227. 
. Resultats de quelques promenades entomologiques. 
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iii. pp. 61-98, 249-252. 
These observations are the result of a week's stay early in July, 1872, 
near the Adom^, in the Landes, and comprise interesting details of the 
habits, structure, and economy of insects of all orders. As a rule, the 
author is of opinion that no larva, under normal conditions, lives as such 
for more than 2 years : eggs of a Cetonia, laid in the spring of 1872, had 
hatched, and many of the larvae assumed the pupal state in the middle of 
September of the same year, some few having even assumed the perfect 
state at that time. In a discussion of the subject of correcting evident 
errors in the construction of names of insects, the author states that the 
specific name of Apion tamaricis should be incontestably written 
tamariscis. 
Reed, E. B. [See Bethune.] 
Riley, C. V. Fifth Annual Report on the noxious, beneficial, 
and other Insects of the State of Missouri, made to the 
State Board of Agriculture, pursuant to an appropriation 
for this purpose from the Legislature of the State. Jef- 
ferson City, Mo. : 1873, 8vo, pp. 160 & viii., 73 woodcuts. 
Contains a general introduction to Entomology, and instructions for 
collecting and preserving insects. The author continues his notices of 
various noxious species, especially as to their earlier stages and parasites. 
RiTZTEMA, J. Bijdrage tot de Kennis van de Entomologische 
Fauna der Noordzee-Eilanden. Tijdschr. Ent. {!) viii. 
pp. 248-256. 
Enumerates species of Orthoptera^ Neuroptera, Coleoptera, Jlymenojytera,, 
Lepidoptera.1 Diptera, and Ilciniptera found in the islands Tessel, Ter- 
scheliing, Ameland, Schiermonnikoog, and Rottum. 
