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INSECTA. 
pendages of Hexapod Insects. (From P. Bost. Soc.) 1871, 
8vo^ pp. 24 , 1 pi. 
The Recorder has not yet seen this work, in which, from a review in Am. 
Nat. V. p, 420, eleven new species of Nisoniades (^Lep.') are described. 
SiEBOLD, Carl Theodor Ernst von. Beitr'age zur Partheno- 
genesis der Arthropoden. Leipzig; 1871, pp. 238, 2 pis. 
Consists of accounts and arguments upon parthenogenesis observed, 
i., in PolisteSfY^. 1-101 ; ii., in Vespa liolsatica, pp. 102-106 j iii., in Nematus 
ventricosus, pp. 106-130 j iv., in Psyche helix, pp. 131-144 j v., in Solenohia 
triquetrella and lichenella, pp. 145-159 j vi., in Apus and allied Crustacea, pp. 
160-222 (see Crustacea) j and, vii., the author’s conclusions from the facts 
recorded, pp. 223-238. These mainly are, that in consequence of the special 
pains taken to discover which sex is produced by parthenogenesis, it is 
certain that any resulting sexual variation is not accidental, but that in Po~ 
listes, Vespa, and Nematus, as in Apis, the male is thereby produced, and the 
female in Cochlophora and Solenobia, Apus, Artemia, and Limnadia. 
PI. i. contains diagrams of the condition at 4 different periods of a nest of 
Polistes, as regards the development of parthenogenetic ova \ pi. ii. refers ex- 
clusively to Apus cancriformis.. 
This work is supplemented by the author in SB. bayer. Ak. 1871, pp. 232- 
242. 
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Staveley, E. F. British Insects. A familiar description of the 
form, structure^ habits, and transformations of Insects. 
London : 1871, 8vo_, pp. 392, 16 coloured plates, 71 wood- 
cuts. 
A general introduction, more popular than scientific, and somewhat dis- 
cussive. 
Targioni-Tozzetti, Adolfo. Note anatomiche intorno agli 
Insetti. Bull. Ent. Ital. iii. pp. 386-410, pi. 3. 
Minute observations on the disposition, structure, and composition of the 
adipose tissue in larvae of Lampyris noctiluca, Orycies grypus, Cetonia, Ce- 
rambyx cerdo, Tenebrio molitor, Gryllotalpa vulgaris, Pombyx rubi and mori, 
Cossus, and Chelonia. The author gives highly magnified figures of various 
cells and other component parts of this tissue in most of the above-named 
insects, including cysts of Gregarines in the adipose tissue of the larva of 
Cetonia. 
Taschenberg, E. L. Entomologie fiir Gartner und Garten- 
freunde, etc., nehst Angabe der anzuwendenden Schutz- 
mittel. Leipzig : 1871, 8vo, pp. 585, 123 woodcuts. 
224 species of insects injurious to horticulturists are referred to (reviewed 
in S. E. Z. xxxii. p. 166 seq.). 
White, F» Buchanan. On involuntary migration in Insects. 
Ent. M. M. viii. pp. 97-99. 
Contains references to about 50 spp. of insects of all orders observed on the 
enow-fields of a Scotch mountain, none of them being hill-species proper ; 
