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Selys-Longchamps, E. de. Secondes additions au synopsis dea 
Calopterygines. Bull. Ac. Hoy. Belg. 2™® serie, xxvii. 
pp. 645-680. 
— . Secondes additions au synopsis des Gomphines. Bull. Ac. 
Roy. Belg. 2“® serie, xxviii. pp. 168-208. 
. Note sur quelques Odonates nouveaux de Mexique. Ann. 
Soc. Ent. Belg. xi. Compt.-rend. pp. Ixvii-lxxi. 
. Odonates des lies Seychelles. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xii. 
pp. 95-99. 
Published also in English in the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th 
scries, iii. pp. 270-277. (See Wright, E. P.) 
. Nevropteres de Mingrelie. Note sur les Nevroptires 
Odonates. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xii. pp. 105-106* 
. Odonates re 9 ueillis h Madagascar, et aux lies Mascareignes 
et Comores. Recherches sur la faune de Madagascar et de 
scs dependances d^apres les ddcouvertes de F. P. L. Pollen 
et D. C. van Dam, 5“® partie. 
Wright, E. Perceval. Notes on the Dragonflies of the Sey- 
chelles. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th series, iii. pp. 270- 
277. 
In this paper Dr. Wright prefaces an English translation of 
Selys-Longchamps^s paper (see above) with some remarks of his 
own on the species he collected in these islands. It should be 
noted that the exact localities are transposed, in some cases, in 
the Belgian paper. 
t Anatomical and Physiological. 
Brandt, Alexander, Jun. Beitrage zur Entwicklungsgeschichte 
der Libelluliden und Hemipteren. Mem. Ac. Imp. St. 
Petersbourg, xiii. pp. 1-33, pis. 1 & 2. 
Contains an examination of the embryology of Calopteryx virgo 
and Agrion puella. 
Oustalet, E. Note sur la respiration chez les nymphes des 
Libellules. Ann. Sci. Nat. 5“® serie, xi. pp. 370-386, 
pi. 10-12. 
Packard, A. S., Jun. On the development of a Dragonfly 
(Diplax). Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xi. pp. 365-372. 
(Omitted in last Record.) 
A most valuable contribution to the embryology and earlier 
stages of the LibellulidcSj illustrated by many woodcuts. 
Packabd, in his * Guide to the Study of Insects/ pp. 678-626, treats these 
insects as the lowest, or concluding, suborder of true Insecta,” and says : — 
“ They are, in fact, comprehensive or synthetic types, combining, as do all 
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