252 Ins. 
NEDROPTERA. 
Odonata. 
Buciiecker, Heinrich. Systema Entomologioo, Bistens iusectorum 
classes, genera, species. Pars i., Odonata (Fabric.) Europ. ; xli. 
tabulae photograph, floridisque coloribus distinctae. Miinchen : 8vo, 
pp. 1-16, 42 plates [not 41, as stated in the title]. Also pp. i.-iv. 
occupied by an Index tabularum generum, specierum. [^J'he title- 
page is dated “ 1876,” the work appeared in parts, and it is doubtful 
if any were published until 1877 or 1878, and it was probably only 
completed in 1879. Reviewed, very severely, by Brauer, Ent. 
Nachr. V. pp. 24-26.] 
This is an extraordinary work, apparently by a photographer, who 
has adapted his art to the production of plates of most of the European 
Odonata^ the bodies, &c., having been subsequently coloured (and in some 
cases the plan has been more than fairly successful). The unscientific 
author divides the Odonata into three “ sections,” LihelluUdce^ Caloptery- 
gidcR^ and Agrionidce. The Libellulidce are further divided into Mono- 
toxophlehioe (including all the true Libellulina in which the sectors of the 
arculus are petiolate at the base), Dytoxophlebice (including Libellula as 
restricted by Brauer, and. Platethrum), wadi Dyanomiaphlebice (further sub- 
divided into Epithecincc, CorduUncv, Gomphincc^ Cordulegastrince^ and 
^shnidce y sic \). The Calopterygidce conisim only one division (Dyorf^o- 
phlebiai). The Agrionidce also only one (Mhomboidece). 
Goss, H. Note on a fossil wing of a Dragon Fly from the Bourne- 
mouth Leaf Beds. Ent. xi. pp. 193-195. 
Concerns the well-preserved wing of a species of JEschnidce, with 
woodcut. 
Kolbe, H. Ueber die in der Umgegend von Munster gefundenen 
Libelluliden. JB. Ver. Rheinl. 1877-78. 
Not seen by the Recorder j enumerates 43 species, with notes on 
habits. 
PoLETAJEFP, N. Notice sur les glandes salivaires des Odonates. Troudy 
Ent. Ross. X. pp. 99-101. 
[In the Russian language, with translated title.] 
SCHOCH, G. Analytische Tafeln zum Bestimmen der schweizerischen 
Libellen. MT. schw. ent. Ges. v. pp. 331-352. 
A series of tables, preceded by extended notes on external anatomy, 
and followed by a list of species with measurements. The author recog- 
nizes (in his list) 65 species as Swiss, as follows : — 20 Libellulina, 6 Cor- 
duliina (including Epitheca bimaculata wrongly placed in the first 
subfamily), 7 Gomphina, 9 ^schnina, 2 Calopterygina, and 21 Agrio- 
nina’y but he holds that Sympetrum vulgatum and striolatum are not 
specifically distinct. 
Selys-Longchamps, E. de. Odonates de la Region de la Nouvelle 
Guinee. MT. Mus. Dresd. iii. pp. 287-322. 
The region comprises Now Guinea, the Moluccas, aud Celebes. The 
