10 1 ) 18 . 
INSECTA. 
Bethiine concludes his series of descriptions of insects from Kirby’s 
Fauna Boreali-Amoricaua ; Canad. Eut. xiii. pp. 1G2-170. 
List of 8 insects (chiefly Coleoptera) taken on the highest peak of 
Mount Ktaadu, in September, 1881 ; Hamlin, Ins. inj. Trees, p. 262. 
Notice of cave insects, &c., in Virginia ; Packard, Am. Nat. xv. 
pp. 231 & 232. 
Notes on collecting in Florida ; Hulst. Bull. Brooklyn Soc. ii. 
pp. 19 & 20. 
Notes on collecting in Guatemala ; Fletcher, Eut. M. M. xvii. p. 213. 
Notes on insects observed in the Argentine Republic; White, Cameos 
frcm the Silver Land, i. pp. 110, 112, & 263. 
Lists of Coleoptera^ Lepidoptera^ Orthoptera^ and Heiniptera, collected 
in the Straits of Magellan and on the coast of Patagonia, during the 
survey of H.M.S. ‘Alert’; Waterhouse & Butler, P. Z. S. 1881, 
pp. 80-87. 
Economic Entomology. 
Pyrethrum as an insecticide ; Cook & Riley, Am. Nat. xv. pp, 145-147, 
569-572, 744-747, & 817-819. 
Fungi as insecticides ; Comstock, Rep. Dep. Agric. 1879, pp. 260 & 
261 ; Am. Nat. xv. pp. 52 & 53. 
Carbolic acid as a preventative of insect ravages ; A. J. Cook, Canad. 
Ent. xiii. pp. 189-191. 
Numbers of insects destroyed by the house wren ; Aldrich, Am. Nat. 
XV. pp. 328 & 329. 
On the insect food of the blue-bird in August and September ; Forbes, 
Am. Nat. xv. pp. 66 & 67. 
Insects injurious to the olive ; Peragallo, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) i. 
pp. Ixxi. & Ixxii. 
Notes on various insects injurious to the crops in Italy; Bull. Ent. 
Ital. xiii. pp. 208-212 ; Resoconti, 1881, pp. 12-14. 
Insects injurious to the rice-plant ; Riley, Am. Nat. xv. pp. 148 & 
149, 482 & 483, & 751. 
On the destruction of firs, &c., by insects ; Packard, Ins. Inj. Trees, 
pp. 219-227. 
Bibliography . 
Parts ii.-x. of Waterhouse’s “ Aid to the Identification of Insects” 
have appeared within the year (pis. ix.-lxxxiii.). 
On the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London for 
1840-46 ; Kraatz, Deutsche E. Z. xxv. pp. 239 & 240. 
On the Appendix to Fabricius’s Species Insectorum ; Schmidt-Gobel & 
Dohrn, S. E. Z. xiii. pp. 330-332. 
W. L. Distant gives a list of all the existing papers on the Entomology 
of the Peninsula of Malacca, including Penang and Singapore ; Field, 
Iviii. p. 897. 
Are generic names to date from the original author, or from the 
author who uses them in a modified sense, or defines them most accu- 
rately ? Karsch, B. E. Z. xxv. pp. 229-231. 
