THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
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Ron DAN r, Camiu.o. Degli Insetti nocivi e doi loro Parasitti. Bull. 
Eiit. Ttal. vi. pp. 43-G8. 
Completes the work, discussing injurious Diptera, Jlemiptera^ Ortho- 
pier and Acaridce^ and their various insect enemies. 
■ . Nuove osservazioni sugli Insetti fitofagi e sui lOro Parassiti fatte 
nel 1873. Tom. cit. pp. 130-136. 
Various new species are indicated and named. 
Weijenbergh, H. Yaria Entomologica. Tijdschr. Ent. xvii. pp. 149- 
170, pis. ix. & X. 
Observations upon the economy, &c., of various Dutch insects ; 
Diptera (Chh'onomus^ especially), pp. 150-163 ; Hymenoptera, pp. 163- 
168 ; Lepidoptera, pp. 168-170. The plates consist of details of the 
earlier stages of the species discussed. 
Westwood, J. O. Thesaurus entomologicus oxoniensis; or, Illustra- 
tions of new, rare, and interesting Insects, for the most part con- 
tained in the collections presented to the University of Oxford by 
the Rev. F. W. Hope, &c. Oxford (Clarendon Press) : 1874, sm. 
fo., pp. i.-xxiv., 1-205, 40 pis. 
Contains an obituary notice of Hope (byT. J. Pettigrew), with a list of 
his entomological works ; and descriptions of various Coleoptera (espe- 
cially Goliathides, Cremastochilides, and Paussidre), Hymenoptera.^ Ortlio- 
ptera., Neuroptera., Lepidoptera (including monstrosities), TTemiptera, 
Achreioptera, Westw., Thysanura, Anoplura.! and Arachnida. The indi- 
cations of new species, &c., are anything but precise. 
Wood, J. G. Insects abroad, being a popular account of foreign In- 
sects, their structure, habits, and transformations. London : 1874, 
8vo, pp. 780, pis. i.-xx., woodcuts. 
The title of this book, and the name of its author, sufficiently explain 
its contents. Mr. Wood has apparently been allowed to examine the 
cabinets in the British Museum, from which he has in some cases de- 
scribed “ new species.” Much of the book is taken up by trivial discus- 
sions on the meanings of the names of the species noticed. 
Embryology and Morphology. C. Y. Riley defends his statements 
that an insect is 13-jointed, and that embryological data do not always 
subserve the best interests of classification. Am. Nat. viii, pp. 181-187. 
A. S. Packard supports the contrary opinion ; tom. cit. pp. 187 & 188. 
Species known to occur in the later tertiary deposits of Gt. Britain ; 
A. Bell, Ent. vii. p. 210. 
General observations on antennas; T. W. Wonfor, Sci. Goss. 1874, 
pp. 29-31. 
Noises made by insects ; Feuil. Nat., No. 40, pp. 37 & 38, pi. ii. fig. 1. 
E. Lelievre, tom., cit. p. 58. 
Monstrosities in insects and their causes (a double-headed larva of 
Chironomus described [c/. Zool. Rec. x. p. 416]); Weyenbergh, Period. 
Zool. Argent, i. pt. 1. J. O. Westwood, Ent. M. M. xi. pp. ,32-35. 
