THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
his. 5 
(from Forney’s “ Weekly Press,” Philadelphia, Aug. 21, 1875), opposed 
to the universal acceptation of this theory, reproduced in Arch. Sci. Nat. 
(2) Ivi. pp. 294-29G. 
Connection between insects and plants ; K. v. Dalla Torre, Ent. Nachr. 
ii. pp. 170-172. 
On the peculiar relations of plants and insects as exhibited in islands ; 
A. R. Wallace, Ent. ix. pp. 221-229 (extr. from his address as President 
of Section D, Brit. Ass. Meeting, 1876). 
Flower insect-trap. Darlingtonia califorhica described, with a list of 
insects found in its pitchers ; H. Edwards, -in San Francisco Evening 
Bulletin, Dec. 22, 1875 (Psyche, i. p. 183). 
Insects attracted by the exudation of juices from willows, &c., caused 
by the operations of larvae of Cryptorrhynchus lapathi ; E. Olivier, Pet. 
Nouv. ii. p. 70. 
Supplementary notes to the late F. Walker’s “ List of insects inhabiting 
oak-apples E. A. Fitch, Ent. ix. pp. 30-42. 
Insects (including a new species of Cebrio) brought by parent birds to 
a nest of swallows in a room at Algiers, with inferences as to the time of 
flight of the former ; id. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) vi. p. clxvii. See also 
p. clxxxvi. 
Insects destroyed in quantities by the sulphurous exhalations from the 
ferruginous springs at Tarasp, Lower Engadine ; H. Miot, Bull. Soc. EnL 
Fr. (5) vi. p. clxiv. 
Great numbers of insects of all orders found floating in the gutters of 
a gasometer basin, of which the water is ammoniated ; Cornelius, S. E. Z. 
xxxvii. pp. 43-49. 
Geographical Distribution. — Island of Skye. Notes on its ento- 
mology ; W. A. Forbes, Scot. Nat. ii. pp. 262-264. 
West of Scotland. Lists, with localities, of species of llymenopiera 
{Tenthredinidce Sind. Cynipidcn), by P. Cameron, pp. 12-18; Trichoptera, 
by F. G. Binnie, pp. 19-21 ; & Lepidoptera, by J. J. King, pp. 22-37 ; 
with introductory chapter on the Entomology of Clydesdale, by 
P. Cameron, pp. xvii.-xix. In “Notes on the Fauna and Flora of the 
West of Scotland,” Glasgow, 1876, 12mo ; a handbook prepared by local 
scientific men on the Meeting of the British Association at Glasgow in 
Sep., 1876, and given to the members. 
Hammersmith (near London). W. Koltze, S. E. Z. xxxvii. p. 67. 
[English collectors will be surprised to hear of Dasypolia tempU, 
Atomaria zetterstedti, and Cryptophagus hirtulus in this suburban locality 
— the two latter, moreover, new to the fauna I] 
Netherlands. Various observations on habits, localities, aud species 
new to the fauna, by Van Hasselt, Gerth van Wijk, Six (Utrecht, 
especially), Snellen van Vollenhoven, Lersberg, Ritsema, and Van der 
Wulp; Tijdschr. Ent. xix. Verslag, pp. xiv.-li., cxii. & cxiii. 
Moselle. Notes on Coleoptera aud Hemiptcra new or rare for the 
department ; and on insects injurious to the lime at Metz ; Bellevoye, 
Bull. Soc. Metz (2), 1876, pp. 171 & 181, fig. 
