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and to contain a number of valueless names (explained by the
author's statement that these catalogues are paid for according
to the number of new species established in them).
WEYENBERG, —. Insectes fossiles du calcaire lithographique
de la Baviere [from Arch. Musee Teyler, t. 2]. 1870, 4to,
4 plates.
• WHITE, F. BUCHANAN. Notes on the Insects of Strathglass,
Inverness-shire. Ent. M. M. vii. pp. 45-53.
Contains observations on the Scotch mountain Insect-fauna,
and an account of the rarer species of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera,
Hemiptera, and Neuroptera observed in Strathglass by the
author.
Mr. STAINTON'S 'Entomologist's Annual' for 1871 (8vo,
London: 1870, pp. 116, 1 pi.) contains :—An account of the
results of a second Entomological visit to the Engadine, by the
Editor; stray notes on Swiss Trichoptera, by M'Lachlan; notices
of new British species of Coleoptera (about 40 in number, including
10 species and one genus new to science), by the
Recorder; notes on various species of Apidee, Formicidce, Fossores,
and Vespidee, with observations on some of the parasites
of the latter, by Smith; notes on new and rare British Macro-
Lepidoptera (11 in number, including 3 new to science), by
Knaggs; an account of 4 new British species of Tineina, by the
Editor; notes on Sericiculture, by Wallace; and a summary of
the species of Lepidoptera first observed in Britain since 1853,
by the Editor.
DELPINO (Bull. Ent. Ital. ii. pp. 140-159, 228-241) translates and comments
upon Midler's discourse (Verh. Ver. Rheinl. 1869) on the application
of the Darwinian theory to flowers and to insects frequenting them. He
gives (tav. i. figs. 1, 2, 4,5, 6, 7, 9,10, 11, 12,13) highly magnified drawings
of scales from different parts of a Culex.
OGLE (Pop. Sc. Rev. ix. pp. 45-56, 160-172, pis. Ivi. & lix.) discusses the
means employed by insects in fertilizing certain plants.
WALSH & RILEY (Amer. Ent. i. pp. 101-110; ii. pp. 45-50, 70-74,
103-106), under the heading " Galls and their Architects," give particulars
of the economy and excellent figures of American gall-producing insects of
various orders (chiefly Hymenoptera and Diptera) and of their galls. Some
new species and a new genus are described.
MULLER (Pr. E. Soc. 1870, p. ix) describes Indian galls on a sp. of Gnetum,
and galls on AmmophUa arundinacea from Aberdeen.
RITCHIE (Canad. Nat. v. pp. 61-66) discusses various reasons for insects
flying to light—without, however, adding any thing of importance to the
knowledge of the subject.
LABOULBENE refers to a chicken's egg, on the outside of which were
small rugosities, considered probably to be the ova of an insect (Ann. Soc.
Ent. Fr. 4 e ser. x. Bull. p. xii).
LARTIGUE (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4 C ser. x. Bull. p. xxxviii) speculates on
tracks made by insects on paper.