INSECTA, 
THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
By E. 0. Rye, F.Z.S., M.E.S. 
Altum, Bernard. Forstzoologie. • III. Insecten. I. Abth., Allge- 
meines und Kafer (1874), pp. i.-vii., 1-385, figs. 1-38; II. Abth., 
Schmetterlinge, Haut-, Zwei-, Gerad-, Netz-, und Halb-fiiigler (1875), 
pp. i.-vi., 1-364, figs. 1-35. Berlin, 8vo. 
A very valuable treatise on Insects of all Orders injurious to or con- 
nected with trees and plants. The figures are in many cases excellent 
and highly characteristic, expecially when the subject includes the plant 
injured. 
Bedel, L., & Simon, E. Liste g^n^rale des Insectes cavernicoles de 
I’Europe. J. Zool. iv. pp. 110-178 [also separately, as Liste g4n^- 
rale des Articul^s cavernicoles, &c., Paris ; 1875, 8vo, pp. 72J. 
The second part, by Bedel, refers to 125 species of Coleoptera, 3 of 
Orthoptera, and 7 of Thysanura. Reviewed, Pet. Nouv. (1875) p. 514, 
Nouv. et faits, 1875, p. xlix. [also Ent. Monatsbl. i. pp. 26 & 27]. Cf. 
also Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) v. pp. cxxvi. & cxxvii. 
Brandt, A. Zur Kentniss der weiblichen Sexualdriisen der Insecten. 
Bull. P^tersb. xxi. pp. 21-24, figs. 1-4. Also in M41. Biol. ix. 
pp. 491-496. 
Unconnected observations on the development of the ovaries, the 
morphological value of the egg and epithelium, the yelk-forming cells, 
egg cells, and blastoderm, and rudimentary hermaphroditism in insect 
larv8B. Twenty species, of various orders, have been examined by the 
author. 
Costa, A. Relazione di un Viaggio per I’Egitto, la Palestina, e la 
coste della Turchia Asiatica per ricerche zoologiche. Naples: 
1874, 4to,^pp. 1-40. 
Not seen by the Recorder. This work appears, from a notice in 
Nouv. et Faits, No. 17', p. Ixx., to be extracted from Atti Acc. Nap. vii., 
and to include among the Coleoptera the following new species : — Bledius 
giraffa^ Gmdius chrysomelinus^ Scymnus cognatus and zigzag ; cf. also C. H. 
xiv.. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) v. p. clxix., and Pet. Nouv. (1875) p. 526. 
