1NSI3CTA. 193 
ScuDDEH^ S. II. Tlio Insects of Ancient America. American 
Naturalist, vol. i. pp. 625-031, pi. 16. 
In this paper Sciuldcr gives a general account of the remains 
of insects discovered in the palaeozoic fetrata of North America. 
Tiumen, Roland. Aspects of Insect-life in South-eastern 
Africa. Ent. Monthly Mag. vol. iv, pp. 212-223. 
In this paper the author describes his general impressions of 
the insect-life of Natal. It includes some interesting remarks 
especially upon the occuiTcncc of mimicry among Butterflies. 
ScuDDER (Proc. Bost. Soc. N. II. xi. pp. 1I7-I18) notices a collection of 
fossil insects of various orders, but chiefly Diptera, from Miocene beds of the 
Green River, Colorado. 
Sc UDDER also notices (1. c. p. 150) the occurrence of remains of insects 
(Neuroptera) in the Devonian rocks of New Brunswick. 
II. W. Kidd and Albert Muller publish a list of plants growing com- 
monly in this country upon which galls are known or said to occur. Ent. 
M. Mag. V. pp. 118-120. 
Tascuenberg publishes (Zeitschr. ges. Naturw. xxxi. pp. 545-547) some 
remarks upon injurious insects of various orders. 
• Bidie notices various insects (chiefly Ooleoptera) injurious to the coffee- 
plantations in Southern India. Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1868, pp. xxviii- 
xxxii. 
Hagen notices a specimen of Morpho ilioncus with the head of the laiwa, and 
mentions other recorded examples of the same malformation in Dkranula 
rinula, Nymphalis populi, and Cyhistcr Umhaius. Ih’oc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, 
xii. pp. 163, 164. 
Goureau communicates a note on the insects which live upon the leaves 
of the Alder (Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1868, pp. xvi-xviii). lie enumerates 
Ennomos almaria, Galleruca alni, LitJiocolletis klemannella, Emphylus me- 
lanopygus, and E. pumilus. The Lifhocolletis is attacked by a species of 
Encyrtus, and Emphytiis melanocephalus by a Campoplex, probably (7. cero- 
phagus. 
Goureau publishes a note on the insects living on Senecio aquaticus (1. c. 
pp. cxiii-cxv). He records a species of IJxus, Saperda angusticoUk, Agro- 
myza (cnca, Sqnlographa zoe (IMacq.), and EnchcUa jacohcccc, Mordellistena 
suhtruncata occurs also, and probably feeds on the Dipterous larvcO. 
T. A. Marshall notices the occurrence on the Maladetta, at an altitude 
of 11,000 feet, of numerous specimens of a Chrysopa. On the glacier of the 
Vignemale he found Ichneumon antennatorius (Grav.) resting on the snow, 
each specimen at the bottom of a small pit. Ho also met with numerous 
specimens of a moth (probably riusia gamma) and a few of Lygams eqnc3- 
iris. Ent. J\I. INlag. v. p. 170. 
.1. A. Smith publishes some notes, chielly by A. White, on insects re- 
ceived from Old Calabar. Proc. Roy. IMiys. Soc. Edinb. 1864-65, pp. 310-311. 
E. Bobert has found that a strong solution of camphor in alcohol is a 
means of preserving trees from the attacks of boring insects. He planes off 
the outer part of the bark, and impregnates the exposed surface with the 
solution by means of a brusl). Bull. Soc. Ent, Fr, 18t>8, p. xcv. 
