INSECTA. 
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as those of Kollar^ llatzeburg, &c., it may easily be believed that 
Iiis treatise is of the crudest nature. 
C. Papers published in Journals ^c. 
Balsamo-Crivellt, Antonio Villa ed Emilio Cornalia. Sopra 
gPinsetti che devastano i eampi della bassa Lombardia. 
Reale Istit. Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere (Rendic.), ser. 
2. vol. i. fasc. xii. 1868, pp. 620-628, 
This is the report of a Commission upon insect-ravages in the 
provinces of Milan, Pavia and Cremona, and especially refers to 
Phytonomus punctaius, Chrysomela staphylcea, Adimonia rustica 
and Acridium bigutiatum. Remedies are suggested. 
Becker, D. Reise nacli dem Kaukasus. Bull. Soc. Imp. des 
Nat. de Moscou, 1868, pp. 191-233. 
Contains notices of localities for many insects of all orders. 
Boheman, Carl H. Bidrag till Gottlands Insekt-fauna. Of- 
versigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandl. 1867 
(pub. 1868), pp. 611-636. 
Contains references to localities for and dates of captures of 
Qoleoptera, Hemiptera and Lepidoptera, and some synonymic 
notes, in continuation of the authors former paper on the same 
suliject in 1849. In the first-mentioned order, he especially 
draws attention to his capture of Acrognathus mandibularis and 
Plnneustomus politus. 
Brauer, Friedrich. Betrachtungen fiber die Vcrwandlungdcr 
insekten im Sinne dcr Ilcscemlcnz-Theorie. Verb. zooL- 
bot. Cescllsch. in Wien, Band xix. pp. 299-318. 
The author calls attention to the metamorphoses of insects as 
bearing upon the Darwinian hypothesis. He tabulates the dif- 
ferent orders into four groups, characterized by the different 
degrees of resemblance or organization afforded by their respective 
members, both in their early and perfect stages, when compared 
with Campodea, which he takes as a stem-form. He gives an 
outline plate (Taf. x. figs. 1-26) of the different gradations of 
larvae of the Insect a. 
Brischke, G. Kleinere Beobachtungen fiber Insekten. Schrif- 
ten d. Naturforsch. Gesellsch. in Danzig, 2nd ser. Bd. 2, 
Heft. 1, 1868, art. 6, pp. 1-5. 
Contains : — notices of Campoplex unicinctus (Gr.), bred from a 
Eupithecia] water-drinking larvie oiNematus variabilis ; 
and various species of Diptera. [Of. Heft 2, 1869, for slight cor- 
rections in this.) 
. Kleinere Mittheilungen fiber Insekten. Ibid., Heft. 2, 
1869, art. 7. 
Contains : — description of a new species of Cecidomyia ; notes 
on Cecidomyian galls on Athamanta oreoselinum ; leaf-mines in 
1869. [vol. VI.] o 
