10 Ins. 
INSECTA. 
(in larva, and in legs and wings of imago) ; nerve-terminations in striated 
voluntary muscles (in larvae of Stratiomyia and Tipula, and also in Eris- 
talis and Dytiscus). Part 2. Phenomena of the histolysis, or destruction 
of larval tissues and systems. Bibliography ; blood of larva at time of 
metamorphosis ; histolysis of muscles, adipose tissue, salivary glands, 
and tracheae ; remarks on nuclei and other problematic formations ; des- 
sication and shedding of larval hypodermis. Part 3. Phenomena of 
histogenesis, or formation of tissues, &c., in the imago ; development of 
segments of head, thorax, and abdomen, and of the muscular system, 
especially of the wings and legs ; development of the visual apparatus. 
Waciitl, F. A. Beitrage zur Biologie, Systematik und Synonymie der 
Insecten. Wien. E. Z. i. pp. 275-279, 294-298. 
Notes (chiefly unimportant) on various Ilemiptera , Neuropterci, Dip ter a, 
Lepidoptera, and Ilymenoptera. 
Walker, J. J. Entomological collecting on a voyage in the Pacific. 
Ent. M. M. xix. pp. 22-28. 
Notes made on landing at various places on the West Coast of South 
and Central America. 
Wood, J. G. Common British Insects. Selected from the Typical 
Beetles, Moths, and Butterflies of Great Britain. London : 1882, 
pp. 284. 
A popular work. \_Cf. Nature, xxvii. pp. 124 & 125.] 
Zurn, F. A. Die Schmarotzer auf und in dem Korper unserer Haus- 
saiigethiere. i. Die thierischen Parasiten. 2nd edn. Weimar : 
1882, 8 vo. 4 pis. 
[Cf. Zool. Gart. xxiii. pp. 159 & 1G0.] 
Physiology , Habits , Spc. 
Stainton reprints the entomological observations scattered through 
Darwin’s “Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology 
of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. ‘ Beagle ’ round the 
' world”; P. E. Soc. 1882, pp. xxxiv.-xlvii. 
The scarcity of Insects in 1882 is noticed in various entomological 
journals. 
- On scarcity and abundance in Insect Life ; B. Cooke, Naturalist, vii. 
pp. 163-1G6, 181-185, & 197-199. 
On the vitality of Insects in various gas<s: Gratacap, Am. Nat. xvi. 
pp. 1019 & 1020. 
Hibernating Insects ; Margagli, Giorn. Nat. 1882, No. 1 ; (cf. Rev. 
d’Ent. i. pp. 117 & 118.) 
Notes on fungi which attack Insects ; Worthington J. Smith, Ent. 
M. M. xviii. p. 263. 
On the nervous system of Insects of various Orders ; Brandt, Troudy 
Ent. Ross. xii. pp. x.-xiii. 
