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INSECTA. 
THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
By W. F. Kirby, M.E.S., &c. 
Allen, G. The Colours of Flowers as Illustrated in the British Flora ; 
with illustrations. London : 1882, 8vo. pp. 119. (Cf. H. Muller, 
Biol. Centra] bl. iii. pp. 289-291.) ■ 
Contains casual references to Insects. 
Atkinson, E. T. Notes on the Zoology of the North-Western Pro- 
vinces of India (Allahabad : 1882, 8vo, woodcuts). Extracted in 
anticipation from the author’s Memoir, “ The Himalayan Districts of 
the North-Western Provinces of India,” ii., of which vol. i., forming 
vol. x. of the Gazetteer of the North-Western Provinces, was published 
in 1882. 
Includes Arachnida , Insecta , and Myriopoda (pp. 90-260). The intro- 
ductory remarks, sketches of neuration, bibliographical notes, &c., will be 
most valuable to residents in India. 
Bairstow, S. D. Natural History Notes from South Africa. Naturalist, 
viii. pp. 89-93, 102-106,119-122, 128, & 166-171. 
A rambling paper, containing notices of Insects observed. 
Baynes-Reed, E. General Index to the Thirteen Annual Reports of 
the Entomological Society of the Province of Ontario, 1870-82. 
Prepared for the Honourable the Commissioner of Agriculture by 
the Society. Toronto : 1883, 8vo, pp. 35. 
Bellevoye, A. Notes sur quelques Coleopteres et Hemipteres nouveaux 
ou rares pour le departement de la Moselle. Bull. Soc. Metz (2) 
xiv. [1876] pp. 171-180. 
Bellonci, G. Sur la structure et les rapports des lobes olfactifs dans les 
Arthropodes superieurs et les Vertebres. Arch. Ital. Biol. iii. 
pp. 191-196. 
The Artliropoda studied were Squilla and Gryllotalpa. The structure 
of the olfactory organs is very similar in these animals and in Vertebrata. 
Bennett, A. W. On the Constancy of Insects in their Visits to 
Flowers. J. L. S. xvii. pp. 175-185. [Cf. Zool. Rec. xix. Ins. p. 1.] 
Includes the results of sixty-six observations on ffliopalocera, Syrphidce, 
1883. [VOL. XX.] C 1 
