IN SECT A. 
THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Bs E. C. Rye, F.Z.S. 
Butler, A. G. The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and 
Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Boss, R.N., 
F.R.S., during the years 1839 to 1843. Insects (conclusion). II. 
London (E. W. Janson) : 1874, 4to, pp. 25-51, pis. vii.-x. 
Completes this portion of the work, whicli has romainod unrinishcd 
since 1846, and is now perfected by the enterprise of a private indivi- 
dual. The Insects enumerated or described are the completion of the 
Ortlioptera, the Neiirojytera, Hemiptera, Homoptera, Hymenoptera, and 
Diptera, by the late Mr. Adam White, in MSS., and Lepidoptera, by Mr. 
Butler. New genera and species are described and figured ; figures also 
being given of insects already known to science. 
Gterel, C. G. Insecta Epizoa. Die auf Sfiugethieren und Vogeln 
schmarotzenden Insecten, nach Chr. L. Nitzsch’s NachglasS bear- 
beitet. Leipzig : 1874, fo., pp. i.-xv. 1-308, pis. i.-xx. (from Nitzsch’s 
designs). 
After a list of Mammals and Birds known to be subject to the attacks 
of insect-parasites (in .each case also named in the list), and a general 
account of the Jatter, especially as to their internal anatomy, the Pedi- 
culina and Mallophaga are discussed in detail and figured [infra, Ilemi- 
ptera and Orthoptera^. The whole work is based upon Nitzsch’s views. 
Glover Town end. Report of the Entomologist and Curator of the 
Museum. In Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the 
year 1872, Washington: 1874, 8vo, pp. 112-138, figs. 1-26. Also 
in the like Report for 1873, Washington: 1874, pp. 152-169, 
figs. 1-10. 
These refer to ravages, &c., caused by a few well-known species. In 
the preliminary portions of both reports are various scattered observa- 
tions interesting to American agriculturists, by Watts, Riley, Taylor, 
Dodge, Peck, and others. 
Holmgren, A. E. Bidrag till kanncdomen om Boeren Eilands och 
Spetsbergens Insekt-Fauna. Sv. Ak. Handl. viii. (1869) No. 5, 
pp. 1-66 [omitted from Zool. Roc. vi.]. 
Alter biielly discussing the plants, mammals, and birds of Beeren 
