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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Phalangium, H. 0. Wood (Contrib. Essex Inst, vi.) describes the follow- 
ing new North- American species: — P. nigropalpi, p. 13, Pennsylvania j P, 
exilipeSf p. 14, California and Nevada j P. dnereum, p. 16, North New York ; 
P. calcar y p. 17, Virginia j P. hicolovy p. 19, Delaware ; P. favosum, p. 19, 
Nebraska j P. verrucosum, p. 20, origin unknown; P. formosum, p. 21, Co- 
lumbia and Philadelphia; P. pictum, p. 21, Massachusetts; P. maculosumy 
p. 22, Pennsylvania and Virginia; and P. ventricosumy p. 23, Pennsylvania 
and Nebraska. 
Phalangium ortoni, Wood, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. n. s. xiii. p. 435, 
Ecuador. 
Gonyleptes prcedoy Wood, 1. c. p. 435, pi. 24. fig. 5, G. injucundua, Wood, 
I, c. p. 436, pi. 24. fig. 9, G, spinipalpus. Wood, 1. c. p. 437, pi. 24. fig. 6, 
and G. multimaculatus, Wood, 1. c. p. 438, pi. 24. fig. 10, Ecuador. 
SoLPUGIDiE. 
Galeodes orientalis, sp. n., Stoliczka, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xxxviii. 2. 
p. 209, pi. 18. figs. 4 5, Bengal. 
ACARINA. 
Phytoptm. F. Thomas (Zeitschr. ges. Naturw. xxxiii. pp. 313-366) pub- 
lishes a general bibliographical history of our knowledge of the Phytopti, and 
of the effects produced by them upon plants and trees, and then describes, in 
considerable detail, a number of such deformities observed by himself. 
Fbauenpeld (Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xix. pp. 938 & 939) describes 
and figm-es a deformity of Bromus erectus, produced by a species of Phy~ 
tqptus. 
Bessels (Wiirttemb. naturw. Jahresh. xxv. pp. 146-151) notices some 
points in the development of the species of Atax parasitic in the freshwater 
Mussels. See also Bull. Acad. Roy, Belg. 2® s6r. xxvii. pp. 276-280. 
Lucas (Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1869, pp. Ixiii-lix) notices some poiuts in the 
habits of Tetranychua Untearius. 
J. E. VizE notices the habits of the Mite parasitic on the Wood-pigeon. 
Proc. Lit. Phil. Soc. Manchester, vii. p. 211. 
Vasates, g. n., Shimer, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 319. Abdomen long, 
tapering to a point, with two long anal setae ; legs four in munber. Sp. V. 
quadripedes (sic), sp. n., Shimer, 1. c. p. 319, inhabits pedicellated galls on the 
upperside of the leaf of the white maple. (Probably the young of some 
jphytoptide,) 
Acarua acma, |sp. n., Shimer, 1. c. p. 320, on the leaves of the while 
maple. 
