THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
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Bibliography. 
Bull. Ent. Ital. : Pt. iv., of 1883, containing pp. 241-363, was not 
published till April 15, 1884, and is not included in this Record. 
Parts xvi.-xix. of Waterhouse’s “ Aid to the Identification of Insects ” 
have appeared within the year, including vol. ii. pis. cxxv.-cxl. 
An 8th edition of Packard’s “Guide to the Study of Insects” (New 
York: 1883, 8vo, pp. xii. & 715) has appeared. 
W. F. Kirby has published “ The Young Collector’s Handbook to the 
Orders of Insects,” “of Beetles ” and “ of Butterflies”; London, 1883, 
12mo, each 32 pp., woodcuts. 
Additions and corrections to Hagen’s Bibliotheca Entomologica;' 
Hagen, S. E. Z. xliv. pp. 136-139. 
Weise gives a list of the contents (chiefly Coleopterous) of Richter’s 
“ Supplementa Faunae Insectorum Europae ” ; Deutsche E. Z. xxvii. 
pp. 333 & 434. 
Bibliography of the Articulata of Cincinnati; Langdon & Duty, 
J. Cincinn. Soc. vi. pp. 25-38. 
Weismann’s “ Studies in the Theory of Descent ” reviewed ; Packard, 
Am. Nat. xvii. pp. 1042-1047. 
Notice of P. C. Zeller’s life and works ; Dohrn & Frey, S. E. Z. xliv. 
pp. 406-418, portrait. 
Obituary notice of F. W. Maklin, with list of his works ; Sandahl, , 
Ent. Tidskr. iv. pp. 6-8, 51, & 52. 
Obituary notice of J. L. Leconte, with portrait and complete 
bibliography of his publications ; Bull. Brooklyn Soc. vi. pp. i.-ix. 
On capitalizing specific names ; Riley & others, Papilio, iii. pp. 62 & 
103-105. 
On the employment of Geoffroy’s and Muller’s generic names ; Gangl- 
bauer & Weise, Wien. ent. Z. ii. pp. 39, 91, 92, 150, & 151 ; Harold, 
S. E. Z. xliv. pp. 170-172 & 501. 
Collecting , Preserving , 8fc. 
New killing-bottle ; Northcote, Ent. xvi. p. 240. 
On preserving Insects, especially Lepidoptera ; Sci. Goss. xix. pp. 21 
& 22 . 
Objections to use of napthaline cones ; Am. Nat. xvii. pp. 83 & 84. 
New microscopical instruments for examining Insects ; P. E. Soc. 1883, 
pp. iv. & v. 
Apparatus for showing microscopic objects ; E. Saunders, P. E. Soc. 
1883, p. xxxvi. 
Directions for mounting Insects in balsam without pressure : Micr. 
News, iii. pp. 105 & 106, fig. ; J. R. Micr. Soc. iii. pp. 444 & 445. 
Mounting Insect-organs for microscope : Bennett & Holmes. Sci. Goss, 
xix. pp. 208 & 232. 
On section-cutting in the proboscis of honey-feeding Insects ; Cheshire, 
P. E. Soc. 1883, p. xix. 
On decolorizing the pigment of the eyes of Arthropoda ; Della Torre, 
C.R. xcvi. p. 1806. 
