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Ellison, S. T. Mimicry in Insects. P. Perthshire Soc. i. pp. 105-110. 
A general article. 
Fabre, J. H. Nouveaux souvenirs entomologiques. Etudes sur 
Pinstinct ct les moours dos insectes. Paris: 1882, pp. 349. (Re- 
viewed in Ent. M. M. xx. p. 43.) 
Relates chiefly to the habits, instincts, and metamorphoses of various 
Hymenoptera and Coleoptera. The first chapter gives a sketch of the 
Insects frequenting a waste plot of ground, covered with weeds, which goes 
by the local name of ‘ harmas.’ Chapter ii. is devoted to the Tarentula. 
In chapter x. (pp. 157-178), various experiments to test the intelligence 
of Insects are described, in addition to others elsewhere related, which will 
be noticed under the genera of Aculeate Hymenoptera , to which they 
refer. Chapter xiii. (pp. 226-261) contains a list of the Hymenoptera and 
Coleoptera frequenting the bramble, with notes on the habits of several 
of the former, more especially Osmia tridentata, Duf. & Perr. 
Failla-Tedaldi, L. Insetti Commestibili, Sacri, Medicinali, e d’Orna- 
mento (continued). Nat. Sicil. ii. pp. 91-94. 
Forbes, S. A. The Regulative Action of Birds upon Insect Oscilla- 
tions. Bull. Illin. Lab. N. H. vi. pp. 3-32. 
A number of birds frequenting an orchard much infested with insects 
were shot, and the contents of their stomachs carefully examined, in 
order to ascertain the proportion of various insects eaten. The results 
are given in great detail, and tabulated, Anisopteryx vernata being pre- 
ferred by most birds. 
Godman, F. Ducane, & Salvin, O. Biologia Centrali- Americana; or, 
Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna and Flora of Mexico 
and Central America. Zoology, pts. xxi.-xxviii. 
The portion published in 1883 includes the following sections relating 
to Entomology : — 
Coleoptera , i. (1), by H. W. Bates, pp. 153-256, pis. vi.-xii. 
Coleoptera , i. (2), by D. Sharp, pp. 145-312, pis. v.-vii. 
Coleoptera , iii. (2), by H. S. Gorham, pp. 169-224, pi. x. 
Coleoptera , vi. (1), by M. Jacoby, pp. 225-264, pis. xii.-xv. 
Hymenoptera , by P. Cameron, pp. 1-80, pis. i.-iv. 
Lepidoptera Rhopalocera , i., by F. D. Godman & 0. Salvin, pp. 225-288, 
pis. xxiv. & xxiv., & ii., pis. xxv.-xxvii. 
Lepidoptera Heterocera , by II. Druce, pp. 25-32, pis. iii.-v. 
Rhynchota Heteroptera , by W. L. Distant, pp. 215-264, pis. xx.-xxiii. 
Rhynchota Homoptera , by W. L. Distant, pp. 17-27, pi. iii. 
Gogorza, J. Una excursion zoologica por Valencia. An. Soc. Esp. 
xii. pp. 59-81. 
Includes occasional notices of Insects. 
Goscn, C. C. A. On Latreille’s Theory of “ Le segment mediare.” 
Nat. Tids. (3) xiii. pp. 475-531. 
The writer discusses Latreille’s view that the first abdominal segment 
