INSECTA. 
385 
VoLLENiJovEN, S. C. Snellen VAN. Opmerkingcii omtrent de 
Vangst van kleiiie Insecten. Tijdschrift voor Entomologies 
1865, pp. 132-136. 
In this paper the author urges the Dutch entomologists to 
devote their attention to the smaller insects, and especially to 
the parasitic species, and furnishes them with some hints as to 
the best mode of proceeding* 
Walker, F. Notes on Insects inhahititig the Reed, and their 
parasites. Ent. Monthly Mag. vol. i. pp. 184, 185. 
This paper chiefly relates to Giraud^s memoir on the insects 
living on the Reed, and gives a list of the species recorded by 
him. , i 
Walsh, 6 . D. On certain remarkable or exceptional larvse> 
Coleopterous, Lepidopterous, and Dipierous, with descrip- 
tions of several new genera and species, and of several 
species injurious to vegetation, which have been already 
published in agricultural' journals. Proceedings Boston 
Soc. Nat. Hist. vol. ix. pp. 286-318 : February and March 
1864. 
This paper includes, together with some original remarks on 
larvae of insects and characters of new genera and species, a 
selection or notices of articles published by the author in va- 
rious American journals. In the first portion of the paper, 
Walsh refers to the circumstances, connected with his SphingU 
campa distigma, Dryocampa hicolor, Halesidota antiphola and 
tessellaris, and Clytus pictus, which furnished the subject of his 
subsequent paper read to the Entomological Society of Phila- 
delphia. (See Record, 1864, p. 332.) 
D. Anatomical and Physiological Papers, 
Blackwall, J. Facts relative to the movements of Insects on 
dry, polished, vertical surfaces. Proc. Linn. Soc* viii. 
pp. 136-140. 
In this paper the author describes a series of observations 
made with the view of proving that flies and other insects are 
enabled to move on polished surfaces by means of an adhesive 
fluid emitted from the hairs of their pul villi. 
Bogdanoff, a. Les pigments des insectes sont-ils isolables ? 
Bull. Soc. Nat. de Moscou, xxxvii. 1864, part i. pp. 346- 
348. 
In this paper the author gives the results of some experi- 
ments upon the solubility of the colouring matters of insects. 
He finds that alcohol, which dissolves the pigments of birds^ 
feathers, has no action upon those of insects, but that the brown, 
1865. [vol. II.] 2 c 
