THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Ins. 3 
Cooke, B. On tlio classification of Insects. Naturalist, viii. pp. G5-71. 
The following arrangement is proposed : — 
Division I. 
Pupa unable to feed. 
1. Coleoptera. 
2. Hymenoptera. 
3. Diptera. 
4. Lepidoptera. 
5. Trichoptera. 
6. Stegoptera (Newman, in part, 
= Neuroptera Planipennia ). 
Division II. 
Pupa able to feed. 
1. Neuroptera Odonata. 
2. Neuroptera Iletera. ( Perlidce , 
JEphemcridce, Psocidce , Termitidai. 
3. Orthoptera. 
4. Hemiptera. 
5. Homoptera. 
6. Thysanoptera. 
Costa, A. Rapporto preliminare e sommario sulle ricerche zoologiche 
fatte in Sardegna durante la primavera del 1882. Rend. Acc. Nap. 
xxi. pp. 189-201. 
Includes general remarks on the insects captured, a list of Coleoptera , 
and preliminary diagnoses of several new insects, chiefly Hymenoptera. 
. Notizie ed osservazioni sulla Geo-Fauna Sarda. Memoria prima. 
Resultamento di ricerche fatte in Sardegna nel settembre 1881. 
Atti Acc. Nap. ix. li, pp. 41. 
Includes an account of the journey, and a list of species of insects, 
&c., taken, including descriptions of several new ones. 
. Relazione di un viaggio nelle Calabrie per ricerche zoologiche 
fatto nelle state dell 1876. L. c. ix. 6, pp. 63, plate [1881], 
Includes lists of insects captured, and descriptions of several new 
species. 
Dalla Torre, K. W. v. Anleitung zur Beobachtung der alpinen 
Thierwelt. Munich: 1881, 8vo, pp. xii. & 114. (Cf. Kosmos, xi. 
pp. 159 & 160). 
. Beitrage zur Arthropoden-Fauna Tirols, i. Ber. Yer. Innsbr. xii. 
pp. 32-73. 
Includes lists of the Orthoptera , Pseudoneuroptera , Ehynchota, Ichneu- 
monidce, Arachnida , and Myriopoda of Tyrol, and descriptions of 3 new 
Tenth' cdinidce. 
Deiciimuller, J. Y. Fossile Insecten aus dem Diatomeenschiefer 
von Kutschlin bei Bilin, Bohmen. Yerh. L.-C. Ak. xlii. [1881] 
pp. 295-331, pi. xxi. 
Includes fossil species of Coleoptera, Hymenoptera , and Hemiptera , 
mostly new. The majority show tropical characters, and but little 
affinity with fossil insects hitherto described from other localities. 
Dewitz, II. Ueber die Fiihrung an den Korperanhangen der Insecten, 
speciell betrachtet an der Legescheide der Acridier, dem Stachel der 
Meliponeu, und den Mundtheilen der Larve von Myrmeleon , nebst 
Beschreibung dieser Organe. B. E. Z. xxvi. pp. 51-68, figs. 
The close analogies and homologies of the mouth-parts and abdominal 
appendages in various insects are pointed out. 
