4 Ins. 
INSECTA. 
Descriptions of larvae, and other salient points, will be recorded infra ; but 
a complete analysis of this interesting (if rambling) paper is impossible 
in these pages. One new genus (Diptei'a), and various new species are 
described or indicated. 
Riley, C. V. Eighth Annual Report on the noxious, beneficial, and 
other Insects of the State of Missouri, &c. Jeiferson City, Mo. : 187G, 
8 VO, pp. i.-iv., 1-185, woodcuts. 
Of the usual practical nature. Discusses Dorypliora XMineata^ Aniso- 
pteryxpometaria and an allied new species, Leucania unipunctata, Caloptenus 
spretus, Phylloxera vastatrix, and Megathymus yuccce, 
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Potato Beetle and the other Insect foes of the Potato in North 
America. New York : 1876, 12mo, pp. 1-108, map, 49 cuts. 
Sufficiently explains itself by the title. This useful little manual is 
practically a condensation of the author’s State Reports already 
recorded. 
Ritsema, C. Bijdrage tot de Kennis der Insecten-fauna van het Noor- 
delijkste Oedeelte van Sumatra. Tijdschr. Ent. xix. pp 43-50. 
Enumerates 9 species of Coleoptera (4 new), and 1 of Ilemiptera. 
Rondani, C. Repertorio degli Insotti parassiti e dollo loro Vittimo. 
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Supplemental to the first part, enumerating Ilymenopterous parasites, 
alphabetically arranged, with brief observations upon the other insects 
attacked by them. The author, 1. c., gives redescriptions of 4 new species 
of parasitic Hymenoptera and Diptera^ described by him in the Bulletino 
del Comizio agrario Parmense, 1875. 
SCHOYEN, W. M. Do i Husene skadeligste Insekter og Midder, der 
angribe og bedservo vore Madvarer, Klaoder, Bohave og ovrige Eion- 
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woodcuts. 
A popular descriptive account of Insects and Acari^ &c.. injurious to 
food, clothes, furniture, &c., in houses. 
Fossil insects. A list of the species known to occur in the Palaeozoic 
epoch ; H. Woodward, J. G. Soc. xxxii. pp. 63 & 64. 
Insect gallery in silicified wood of A raucarites from old red sandstone ; 
A. Puton, Pet. Nouv. ii. p. 2. 
Development of insects ; J. Young, P. N. H. Soc. Grlasg. ii. p. 260. 
Hearing in insects ; note by G. J. Romanes, Nature, xv. p. 177. 
Ocelli in insects suggested to be “ functional remnants of larval organi- 
zations;” Nature, xiii. p. 406. 
On the periodical abundance and disappearance of various insects; 
Nat. Canad. viii. pp. 30-32. 
Fertilization of plants by insect agency. See Muller, in titles supra, 
and in Hymenoptera, infrii. Ants observed to effect cross-fertilization by 
removing pollen from one plant of a small shrub ( Coffece) to another at 
Durban ; M. S. Evans, Nature, xiii. p. 427. T. Meehan’s observations 
