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(4) viii. p. 368], gives a short account of the Insecta found by him, A. tell- 
Jcampfi being the only species identified. 
Camel’s Hump, Vermont : Sprague (Arch. Tr. Orl. Soc. i. pp. 85-88) gives 
a list of names of insects of all orders found here during a two days’ ex- 
pedition. 
Chili ; Taschenherg, in Z. ges. Naturw. xxxviii. pp. 38-42, briefly re- 
describes the Chilian Creohius eydottxi, Gu6r.,= Cascelius kingi^ Gmi,, Bolho- 
ceras sp., Areoda mutahilisj Sol., BtipresUs {Halecia?) sp., Curis hella and 
Tihionema abdominalis, Gii^r., Dasytes trifasciatus, Gory, Mof della sp., Mega- 
lometis margaritaceus, Er., Lophotus eschscholtzi, Schon., Callidium suhmetal- 
licum, Blanch., Calliophyrus macropnSf Newm.,and Cheloderus childreni, Gray 
(all Coleopt.')f and Pompilus {Priocncmis) gravesiy Curt., Odynerus sp., and 
a Cryptus, referring also to some larvae from the same locality. 
Malay Archipelago: prefixed to Smith’s Catalogue of Indian Aculeate 
Hymenoptera, P. L. S. xi. p. 286 et seq.y is a brief introductory account by 
Wallace of his experience of the Insecta of this region. 
Preservation of grain : Louvet (script. Louvel), C. JR,. Ixxii. p. 120, describes 
his method of preserving grain in vacuo from the attacks of insects, &c. 
Charriere, Ann. Soc. Agric. Lyon (4), i. Proc. verb. p. clxxxv, for the same 
purpose, recommends the employment of carbonic acid. 
Collecting : Bates (P. Geogr. S. xvi. p. 76 et seq.'), in his Hints to Tra- 
vellers,” gives some useful information. 
Killing and preserving specimens : cf. Ent. v. pp. 228, 246, 263, 276, 319, 
on real or supposed effects of strychnia, camphor, *&c. on specimens in 
museums. 
Acari in collections are to be destroyed by application of heat (Loriferne), 
or by sulphate of carbon (Poujade), Pet. Nouv. p. 164. 
Entomological nomenclature : on the question whether priority or general 
acceptance is to prevail, cf. Ent. M. M. viii. : Lewis, p. 1 ; M^Lachlan, p. 40 ; 
Kirby, pp. 41 & 142 ; Ullyett, p. 42 ; Crotch, p. 71 ; Briggs, p. 93. Cf. also 
Agassiz, Am. Nat. v. pp. 363-366 ; Lewis, Tr. E. Soc. 1871, p. 317 ; and 
Wallace’s Presidential Address, Pr. E. Soc. 1871, p. Iviii et seq. ; also on the 
general subject of nomenclature of the Jnsedfl?, Harting (Arch. f. Nat. xxxvii. 
p. 24 et seq.')y “ Skizze eines rationellen Systems der zoologischen Nomen- 
clatur ; ” and for his idea of the definition of a species, Fauvel, M^m. Soc. L. 
Norm. (2) iv. p. 229 et seq., whose observations form a chapter of his Faune 
Gallo-Iih^nane,” already published. 
The entomological portion of Robinson’s Essay towards a Natural History 
of Westmoreland &c. (1709), is reviewed by Birchall (Zool. s. s. vi. p. 2670). 
Godart’s work (1682) is also commented upon by Roberts, ibid. p. 2787. 
He Marseul (Nouv. et faits, p. xcix) indicates the publication of ento- 
mological papers in the * Histoire et typographic du canton de G^radmer ’ 
(1862, 8vo, pp. 176). 
Villa : for a list of the publications of this entomologist, cf S. E. Z. xxxii. 
pp. 97 & 233. 
Thomson’s ^ Opuscula Entomologica : ’ Sharp (Ent. M. M. vii. p. 204) gives 
' an analysis of fascc. i. & ii. ; and fasc. iii. is similarly treated by the Recorder in 
Ent. Ann. 1872. 
Errata : Dohrn (S. E. Z. xxxii. p. 47) jokes at the expense of Gaubil and 
the Bull. Mosc. on the subject of printers’ errors. 
