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INSECTA. 
der Landswirthscliaft. Stuttgart: 1871, pp. 138, many 
woodcuts. 
This practical little manual, on somewhat the same scheme as the author’s 
larger work on the same subject, after a general and popular introduction on 
the affinities and divisions of Insecta, gives a short and intelligible account 
‘of such of them as are directly or indirectly injurious, with well executed 
figures of the insects themselves (usually in their most noxious stages), and 
of the devastation or alteration in appearance caused by them. 
Packard, Jun., A. S. Injurious Insects, new and little known. 
Mass. Agr. Rep. 1870, 8vo, pp. 31, plate and woodcuts. 
This work is reviewed at some length in Am. Nat. iv. pp. 684-686, where 
some of the figures are reproduced (pi. 6, «& figs. 164-166). From that 
review the following new spp. of Lepidoptera appear to be described by 
Packard: — 3Iicropteryx pomivorella (on apple), v-signatana (cherry), T. 
vaccinivorana (yellow cranberry), Coleophora cerasivorella (cranberry vine), 
Priocycla bilinearia (oak), Paraphia piniata and Parennomos piniata (pine), 
and Botys syringicola (lilac), and, of the Rhytichotay Lecanium platyceri, 
. First Annual Report on the Injurious and Beneficial In- 
sects of Massachusetts. Boston : 1871, 8vo, pp. 31 (extr. 
from Mass. Agr. Rep.). 
The Recorder has not yet seen this work, reviewed in Am. Nat. v. p. 423 
et seq.y in which some of the woodcuts are reproduced. A new sp. of Buc- 
culatrixy from cedar, appears to be described in it, under the name 
thuiella. 
, On Insects inhabiting Salt Water. Am. J. Sci., Feb. 
1871. 
Tlie author supplements his former paper on this subject (Zool. Rec. vii. 
p. 230) by publishing the results of his examination of a collection made by 
Torrey in Clear Lake, California. This, apart from species evidently acci- 
dentally occurring, comprised decipiens and Berosuspunctatissimus, 
Lee. (Coleopt.), Saida intei'stitialis, Say, and Ilygrotrechus and Corixa, spp. 
nn,, described by Uhler {Hemipt.'), an unknown sp. of Tanypus and of 
Stratiomys, in their earlier stages only, and an Ephydra, sp. n., described by 
Packard, who also describes another of that genus from Great Salt Lake 
(Dipt.), A larva of Chironomus oceanicus, Pack., found in 20-fathom water, 
and a new sp. of Jlydrachna (Arachn.) are also recorded from Eastport, Maine. 
A note on the littoral habits of the English allies of Ephydra is given on 
Walker’s authority. 
This article is reproduced in Ann. E. H. (4) vii. p, 230 seq. 
Pettigrew, James Rele. On the Physiology of wings, being 
an Analysis of the movements by which Flight is produced 
in the Insect, Bat, and Bird. Tr. R, Soc. Edinb. xxvi. pp, 
321-448, pis. xi.-xvi. 
An exhaustive summary of the views of Borelli, Marey, Chabrier, and 
Strauss-Durckheim. The plates refer exclusively to birds ; but there are so?\ie 
woodcuts in the portion relating to the Insecta, 
