TITLES. 
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440. [Meyrick, E.] Description of New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera . 
Tr. N. Z. Inst, xviii, pp. 162-183. 
441. . Notes on nomenclature of New Zealand Geometrina. T. c. 
p. 184. [Lepidoptera.] 
13 new names of genera. 
442. . On the classification of the Fterophoridce. Tr. Ent. Soc. 
1886, pp. 1-21. [Lepidoptera.] 
He considers that Pterophoridce are a family of Pyralidina of similar 
value with the Botydidce , &c. There are phylogenetic remarks, such as 
“ in the more advanced forms is found a rapid degradation . and that 
the family does not “ originate from any known existing form, but from 
an extinct type closely approaching the ancestral form of the Pyrali- 
dina.’' “ Mimeseoptilus is without doubt the oldest of all the known 
cleft-winged genera.” New genera and species are described, the latter 
exclusively Australian or insular. 
443. . Descriptions of Lepidoptera from the South Pacific. T. c. 
pp. 189-296. 
It elates to Geometridce and Micro-Lepidoptcra from Australia and Poly- 
nesia ; 174 species, mostly new, and many new genera. Botydidce are 
largely predominant. He considers the Geometridce to be composed of 7 
families, which he tabulates, pp. 190 & 191. 
444. Miall, L. C., & Denny, A. The structure and life-history of the 
Cockroach ( Periplaneta orientalis) : an introduction to the study of 
Insects. London : Lovell Reeve : 1886, 224 pp., woodcuts. 
[ Orthoptera.'] 
Contents : — l. Writings on Insect Anatomy, n. The zoological posi- 
tion of the Cockroach, in. The natural history of the Cockroach. IV. 
The outer skeleton, v. The muscles, the fat-body aud coelom, vi. The 
nervous systems and sense-organs, vii. The alimentary canal and its 
appendages, vm. The organs of circulation and respiratiou (including 
a section on the respiratory movements of Insects, by Prof. Felix Plateau, 
of Ghent), ix. Reproduction, x. Development (including a section 
on the embryonic development of the Cockroach, by Joseph Nusbaum, 
of Warsaw), xi. The Cockroach of the past, by S. H. Scudder, of the 
U. S. Geological Survey. Appendix. Parasites of the Cockroach. Sense 
of smell in Insects. Chapter vm also includes a discussion of the ques- 
tion how air can be made to enter the finer portions of the tracheas ; in 
this the writers have been assisted by Prof. Rucker. There is a set of 
bibliographical references at the commencement of each chapter. 
445. Mi eg, T. Aberrations nouvelles de Lepidopteres europeans. Le 
Nat. viii, pp. 236 & 237. 
9 named varieties, mostly from England. 
446. Mik, J. Die Dipteren- Genera Paolo Lioy’s. Ent. Nachr. xii, 
pp. 321-328. 
Mik considers Lioy’s work to have been quite without value, and occu- 
pies these pages with a synonymy of his genera. This I have not repro- 
duced in our “ systematic” part. 
