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views. He divides the class into three subclasses : I. Ameta- 
liOLA (^Atioplura, Mallophaga, Thysanura) ; II. Hemimetabola 
{Hemiptera, including Homoptera and Heteroptera\ Orthoptera 
and Neuroptera) ; III. IIolometabola {Aphaniptcra, DipiarUy 
Lepidoptera^ Hymenoptera^ Strepsiptera, Coleopterd), A few 
borrowed woodcuts arc given. 
Packahd^ Jr., A. S. On Insects inhabiting Salt Water. Comm. 
Ess.Inst.vi.pp.;4I-5I, figs. 6. [Internal sheet-date is March 
1869 ; external dates of vol. vi. part i. are 1868 in middle, 
and March 1870 at bottom.] 
The author notes two instances of Diptera and one of Coleo- 
ptera occurring in brine or salt water, and recorded by American 
naturalists ; and gives a list (from Hagen) of papers by Euro- 
pean authors on the same subject. He then describes and 
figures with details two new species of Diptera of saline habits 
from America, and indicates the existence of other species of 
that order of similar economy. 
Perris, Edouard. Exploration des nids d^Hirondelles. Ann. 
Soc. Ent. Fr. (4) ix. p. 468. 
From the author^s observations, larvie of Lucilia dispar are 
to be found in swallows^ nests in the spring, and in autumn and 
winter pupae of Ornithomyia avicularia and Stenoptei'yw hirun-r 
diniSy and larvae oi-Attagenus piceus and Anthrenus pimpineUce, 
Dipterous pupae also occur in larks^ nests. 
Rondani, Camillo. Nota sugli Insetti parassiti della Galleruca 
dclF Olmo. Parma : August, 1870. I plate. 
Treats of three known parasites of Galleruca xanthomelcena 
icalmariensis) \ — I, a Dipteron ; 2, Vimicroscopic Hymenopteron 
Vespa ; and, 3, one of the Braconides or Ichneumonides, 
named provisionally (not described in any way) Ichneumon gal- 
lerucarum ; also of two other species, similarly parasitic, one a 
Dipteron already described by R. Desvoidy, the other ascribed 
to Pteromalus by Fonscolombe, under the name gallerucxy but 
for Avhich the author creates a new genus. 
SiEBKE, II. Om en i Sommern 1869 foretagen entomologisk 
Reise giennem Ringerike. Ilallingdal og Valders. Chris- 
tiana : 1870, pp. 71. 
An account of insects of all orders met with by the author in 
the above-mentioned localities. One or two new species are 
described. 
Wattenwyl, Brunner von. Ueber den Werth der Species und 
der Cataloge des British Museum. Verb. z.-b. Wien, Bd. 
XX. pp. I6I-I66. 
Contains strictures upon the ^ Catalogues ^ published by the 
British Museum (especially referring to the Blattarue), which 
are alleged to be improperly ante-dated, to be without a system. 
