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p s ~ c ~ [January 1889.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
Authors and societies are requested to forward their works to the editors as soon as $ubZisJted.
The date of publication, given in brackets [I, marks the time at zvhick the work was received, unless an earlier date of futlication is known to recorder or editor. Unless otherwise stated each record is made directly from the work that is noticed. A colon after initial designates the most common yiveu name, as: A: Augustus; B: Ben- jarnix; C: Charles; D: David; E: Edward; F: Frederic; G: George; H: Henry; I: Isaac; y: John; AT: Karl; L: Louis; M: Mark; N: Nicholas,; 0: Otto; P: Peter; R: Richard; S: Samuel; T: Thomas; W: William, The initials at the end of each record, or note, are those of the recorder.
Correctiom of errors and notices of omissions are solicited, Atkinson, G: F. New instances of pro-
tective resemblance in spiders.
( Amer.
naturalist, June 1888, v. 22, p. 545-546.) ourn. Elisha Mitchell sci. soc., Jan.-June $88, v. 5, p. 28-30.)
Thornisus aleatoreus, at rest. imitates with its ante- rior legs spikelets of grass; cyrtarach?ae ?n?~Zti/i?zeata, a new species here described, mimics shells of helix. G: D (4603)
Atkinson, G : F.
Note on the tube-inhabit-
ing spider, Zycosafktifera Hentz. (Ainer. naturalist, June 1888, v. 22, p. 546-547.) (Journ. Elisha Mitchell sci. soc., Jan.-June 1888, v. 5, p. 30-31.)
On the use of its tube by &cosa fatifera. G: D. (4609)
California - Board of stale horticultiiral commissioners. First report. Sacramento, .slate office, 1882. t. p. cover, 94 p., 24X 15, t 18.1; Xi1.2. il.
CIINTENTS: Officers and members of hoards of state viticultural, and of state horticultural corninis. sioners; acts of legislature and quareintine rules of viticultural and horticultural commissioners, for pro- tection of fruit--rowing industries of the state, min. utes of proceedings of Board of state horticultural com- missioners, and minutes of tirst annual horticultural convention, both series of minutes containing notes on measures against noxious insects; papers (recorded separately under authors' names) by S. F. Chapin, Matthew Cooke, Ellwood Cooper, C : H. Dwindle, Felix Gillet, W. B. West, and E. J. Wickson. G: D. (4700) Cockerell, Theodore Dru Alison. The
orange spot in natliab's iole, Bdw [!I.
(Can. entom., Aug. 1888, V. 20: p. 156-
157.1
States that the orange spot on the wings of nathalis {ole is liable to fade suddenly.
G: D. (4701)
Field, E : H.
History of a brood of lunas.'
(Swiss cross, Aug. 1888, V. 4, p. 46-47, 45 cm. )
Account of rearing uttacus Zufza; description of different stages. G: D. (4703)
French, G : Hazen. Partial preparatory
stages of catocala inmihens, Guen. (Can. entom., Sept. 1888, v. 20. p. 170-172.)
Describes larva and chrysalis of catocala innubens. G: D.. (4703)
Gauckler, H. Lepidopterologische notizen. (Societas entotn., 15 Feb. 1886, v. 2, p. 171, 23 cm.)
Contains notice of a pupa of sphinxpinastri with a deformed proboscis-sheath, which produced an imago with deformed proboscis. G: D. (4704)
Handlirsch, Anton. [Die variabilitat und die geographische verbreitung der hum-
meln.1 (Verh. K.-k. 2001.-botan. gesells. in Wien, 1888, v. 38; Sitz.-ber., p. 34-36.) Discusses the geogr~phical distribution of the species of bombns, and the variability nf the species. G: D. (470.5)
Harrach, M.
Ueber den fang von ameisen-
gasten und deren vot:kommen bei den ver- schiedenen ameisenarten. (Entom. zeit-
schr., 1888, v. 2: I May, p. 14-16, 85 cm.; 1 June. p. 25-26, 70 cm.)
Mode of collecting- myrmecophilous coleoptera, and notes on species found in nests of different species of fo;~ icidae. G: D. (4706;
Landois, Hermann. Beobacht~~ng uber den
verbleib des spinnfadens. (Jahresber. d. Westfil. provinzia1.-vereins fur wissensch. u. kunst fur 188;;, 1886, p. 30.)
The author believes that spiders eat their thread when they reascend it and it disappears. G: D, (4707) Monell, Joseph.
A new genus of ajhidae.
(Can. entom., June 1877, v. 9, p.
102-103.)
[Rec.. I 183.1
Reprint. (Valley naturalist, Jan. 1878,
v. i,p. 2,col. I, 15cn1.)
Describes colopha, a new genus of aphididat, for byrsocrvpta dmicola. Fitch; literature of the species. G: D. (4708)




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PSYCHE.
Ormerod, Eleanor A. Parasites of the
'ĺ´hessia fly" (cecidomyici destructor. Say). (Entomologist, Dec. 1887, v. 20, p. 317- 318.1
From the parasites of cecidoinyia destructor in Eng- land being Russian, the author concludes that England probably received its cecidomyia from the east. G: B. (47~9)
Peckham, G : W. a72d Peckham, Elizabeth
Gifford. On duration of memory in
wasps, (Amer. nat., Nov. 1887. v. 21, p. 1038-1040.)
Separate. 1887. p. 1038-1040. 24X 15,
t 18X 10.2.
Results of experiments to find how long specimens of vespa maculata remembered the
locution of their
nests. G: D. (4710)
Peckham, Elizabeth (Gifford), wife of G : W., see PECKHAM, G: W.
Stokes, Alfred C. An old Dutch micro-
scopist and what he did. n. Some of
his discoveries. (Swiss cross, July 1888, v. 4, p. 1-3, 70 cm.)
. - - .
Figures magnified foot of spider and scales of some insects: describes these and other things seen by Leeuwefihoek. G: D. (4711)
Tracy, Mary E. New Jersey butterflies.
(Swiss cross, July 1888, v. 4, p. 31, 4 cm.) List of diiu-11;i.l lepidoptera seen in April iS8S, in Plainfield, N.. J.
G: D. (4712)
VON Varendorff, 0.
Ein kiiferfangim win-
ter auf dern eise.
(Societas entom., 1888,
v 3: I May, p. 20, 31 cm. ; 15 May, p. 28, 22 cm.)
Mode of collecting beetles on the ice.
G: D. (4713)
Venus, C. Eduard.
Ueber varietaten-zuch t.
(Corresp.-blatt d. Entom. vev. "Iris" ~ L I Dresden, lu\y 1888, v. I, no. 5, p. 209- 2 10.)
Negative results of experiments upon heterophagic variation of lepidoptera; success in producing' varia- tion in vanessa urticae by rearing in increased temper- ature. G: D. (4714)
Veron, E. Ueber parthenogenesis be i
bf-imbyx man. (2001. anzeigei, 14 May
1888. v. 11, p. 263-264.)
Denies that parthenogensis is possible in b077fb~ 4. G: D- (4715)
Voeltzkow, Alfred. Vorlaufige initthei-
lung iibei- die entwickl~ing in) ei von
7n7~sca vonzitoria. (Zoo]. anzeiger, 7 May 1888, v. 1 I, p. 235-236.)
Brief outline of the development ofmusca vomitorfa in the egg.
G: D. (4716)
Waters, G : Franklin. Peculiar cocoons.
(Swiss cross, June, 1888, v. 3, p. 190, 14 cin .)
Figures a peculiar cocoon of attacks firomethea. G: D. (4717)
Waters, G: Franklin.
[Sense of taste in
birds.] (Proc. Bost. soc. nat. hist., Oct. 1883, v. 22, p. 433-434.)
Abstract, by C : Copineau, entitled,
'Remai-ques sur le sens du gout chez les oiseanx." (Bull. Soc. linn du nord de la France, Feb. 1887, v. 7, p. 219-221.)
A sparrow hawk [tinuncdus sfiarverins] is stated to have eaten earth worms [/umbriciis^\ and to have devel- oped a taste for caterpillars. G: D. (4718) Webb, Sydney.
The elucidation of causes
of variation. (Entomologist, Mar. 1888,
v. 21, p. 87-89.)
Urges entomologists to keep more complete accounts of meteorology, soil and subsoil, in localities where varieties are taken.
G: B, (4719)
Weir, J: fennel-. On melanism. (Ento-
mologist, Apr. 1887, v. 20, p. 85-87.
Defends Lord Walsingham's [T : DeGrey's] view that "dark coloration of lepidoptera from both nigh latitudes and altitudes was of service to them, because in such localities 'they require rapidly to take adviintage of transient gleams of sunshine.' " G: D. (4720) Weniger, J. Adolphe. On the sexes of'
lepidopterous larvae. (Entop~ologist,
Apr. 1887, v. 20, p. 87-88, 2 fig.)
Describes a mode of distinguishing' males from females in the later larval stages of some species of dtaciis (e. g., a. cecropin) ; comments on this method by E : B. Poulton follow (p. 88-89).
G: P. (4721)
White, W: The effect of meteorological
conditions upon insect-life. (Entomolo-
gist, Sept. 1888, v. 21, p. 217-220.)
Discusses nrobsible effect of the cold. moist weather of July, iSSS, in the production of inela&ic lepidoptera. G: D. (472.2)
Winston, Eugenia. Wasp and cricket.
(Swiss cross, Feb. 1888, v. 3, p. 63, 8 cm.) Mode in which a wasp drew a cricket into a hole in the ground. G: D. (4723)
Wood-Mason, James. Some account of the
palan byoo' 01- 'teindoung bo' ('p~i),~$onyx oiyzdis), a lepidopterous insect-pest of the rice-plant in Burma, which in the cater- pillar state breathes water by means of
trachenl gills,. Calcutta, gov't, 1885. t.-p. + 12 p.. I pi. 25 X 16, t. 16 X 10,cl.
Describes and figures the larva, pupa and cocoon of
paraponyx o~yzalis ;i new species ofpyralidae infesting rice fo~yza) in Burma; the larva 1s aquatic and breathes with tracheal gills, the position and n;itnre of which sire described. G: D. (4724)
Woodworth, C : [ W : 1 Leucanium Jiis9-
(/urn [ ! 1. (Amer. florist- 1 Dec. 1886, v. 2. p. 149. col. I, 26 cm.)
Brief account of the
habits of lecanium hesferidwn
[corr.] and of the use of kerosene emulsion for its des- truction.
G: D. (4725)




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