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Dr. F. J. Buckell; Melanchroisin in British Lepidoptera, by J. W. 
Tutt; The history of butterfly classification, by Dr. Buckell; Is moist- 
ure the cause of melanism, by J. E. Eobson; Notes on certain coleop- 
terous insects found in city warehouses, by G. A. Lewcock; The Genus 
Silpha, Linne, by W. F. Johnson and G. A. Lew cock. All of the above 
papers are of considerable general interest, particularly to Lepidop- 
terists and Coleopterists ; the article on Ooleoptera found in city ware- 
houses is, however, of special importance, as it bears on the habits of 
several species that have become introduced in this country by com- 
merce. Of those receiving special mention Dermestes lardarius, Sitod- 
repa {AnoMum) panicea and Ptinus fur are well-known injurious spe- 
cies, while a considerable portion of the others occur here. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL MATERIA. MEDICA. 
Persons interested in this subject will find a very good compilation 
of the insects used in medicine in a paper by Richard Ernest Kunze, 
M. D., of ISTew York, read at the World's Medical Congress, June 2, 
1893. The paper is sent to us as a pamphlet issued by the author, and 
we are unable to give any further facts concerning its publication. 
The entomology of the work is rather weak, old names being given 
throughout and many of these misspelled, but this is by no means a 
serious blemish, and the paper brings together many interesting facts. 
LE NATURALISTE CANADIEN. 
Since the death of that learned and hard-working entomologist, the 
Abbe Provancher, the publication of Le Naturaliste Canadien has been 
interrupted. We are glad to receive the first number of volume xxi, 
published January, 1894, as an evidence that the journal has been 
revived. The editor and proprietor is, as was our lamented friend and 
correspondent, a Catholic priest, the Abbe Y. A. Huard, who is also, 
fortunately for our science, an entomologist. He announces in this 
number, however, that while the journal will occupy itself especially 
with entomology, other departments will be represented. 
A NEW CANADIAN JOURNAL. 
We have just received a copy of the first number of the first volume 
of the Biological Bevieiv of Ontario, a neat little journal published at 
Toronto. The contents are mainly ornithological, but the first number 
contains an article by our friend and correspondent, Dr. William 
Brodie, on " Canadian Galls and their Occupants," which seems to be 
introductory to a series to be published under this title. The present 
installment contains an account of Diplosis erigeroni n. sp., giving Dr. 
Brodie's field and rearing notes on an interesting new gall, which he 
finds on Erigeron canadense, variously situated from the base of the stem 
to the tips of the branches of the flowering panicle. The galls are 
