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and to contain a number of valueless names (explained by the 
author^s statement that these catalogues are paid for aceording 
to the number of new spceies established in them). 
Weyenberg, — . Insectes fossiles du calcaire lithographique 
de la Baviere [from Arch. Musee Teyler, t. 2]. 1870, 4to, 
4 plates.’ 
White, F. Buchanan. Notes on the Insects of Strathglass, 
Inverness-shire. Ent. M. M. vii. pp. 45-, 53. 
Contains observations on the Scotch mountain Insect-fauna, 
aTid an account of the rarer species of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, 
Hemipteraj and Neuroptera observed in Strathglass by the 
author. 
Mr. Stainton^s ^Entomologists Annual^ for 1871 (8vo, 
London: 1870, pp. 116, 1 pi.) contains: — An account of the 
results of a second Entomological visit to the Engadine, by the 
Editor ; stray notes on Swiss Trichoptcra, by M^Lachlan j notices 
of new British species of Coleopiera (about 40 in number, in- 
cluding 10 species and one genus new to science), by the 
llccorder ; notes on various species of JpidaR, FormicidcSj Fos^ 
sores, and Vespid<R, with observations on some of the parasites 
of the latter, by Smith \ notes on new and rare British Macro- 
Lepidoptera (11 in number, including 3 new to science), by 
Knaggs ; an account of 4 new British species of Tineina, by the 
Editor; notes on Sericiculture, by Wallace; and a summary of 
the species of Lepidoptera first observed in Britain since 1853, 
by the Editor. 
Delpino (Bull. Ent. Ital. ii. pp. 140-159, 228-241) translates and com- 
ments upon Muller’s discourse (Verh. Ver. Bheinl. 1860) on the application 
of the Darwinian theory to flowers and to insects frequenting them. He 
gives (tav. i. figs. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) highly magnified drawings 
of scales from different parts of a Culex. 
Ogle (Pop. Sc. Rev. ix. pp. 45-66, 160-172, pis. Ivi. & lix.) discusses the 
means employed hy insects in fertilizing certain plants. 
Walsh & Riley (Amer. Ent. i. pp. 101-110; ii. pp. 45-60, 70-74, 
103-106), under the heading Galls and their Architects,” give particulars 
of the economy and excellent figures of American gall-producing insects of 
various orders (chiefly Hymendptera and JDipterd) and of their galls. Some 
new species and a new genus are described. 
Muller (Pr. E. Soc. 1870, p; ix) describes Indian galls on a sp. of Gnetum, 
and galls on Ammophila arundinacea from Aberdeen. 
Ritchie (Canad. Nat. v. pp. 61-66) discusses various reasons for insects 
flying to light — without, however, adding any thing of importance to the 
knowlctlge of the subject. 
Laboulbene refers to a chicken’s egg, on the outside of which were 
small rugosities, considered probably to be the ova of an insect (Ann. Soc. 
Ent. Fr. 4® s4r. x. Bull. p. xii). 
Lartigue (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. x. Bull. p. xxxviii) speculates on 
tracks made by insects on paper. 
