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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
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Richard; S: Samuel; T: Thomas; W: William. The initials at the end of each record, or note, are those of the recorder.
Corrections of errors and notices of omissions are solicited. Ashrnead, W: Harris. A revised generic
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Synoptic table of the genera of chalddinae. G: D. (4625)
Ashmead, W : Harris.
On the chalcideous
tribe chiropachidcs. (Can. entom., Sept. 1888, v. 20, p. 173-176.)
Table of genera, of which two new (dasyglenes, brachycrepis) are described; describes 3 new species. G: D. (4626)
Braswell, A. List of the butterflies col- lected at Chapel Hill, N. C. (Journ. Eli- sha Mitchell scientific society, Jan.-June 1888, v. 5, p. 19-21.)
List of 69 species and varieties of diurnal lepidop- tera taken at Chapel Hill, N. C.
G: D. (4627)
Brauer, Friedrich, aadRedtenbacher, Josef. Ein beitrag zur entwicklung des fldgelgea- ders der insecten. (2001. anzeiger, 20
Aug. 1888, v. 1 I, p. 443-447.)
Discusses the homolo icdl relationship between tracheae and and veins in the wings of insects. G: D. (4628)
Brehme, Hermann H. Arza7na obZ&uta, G*
and R. (Can. entoin., Sept. 1888, v. 201 p. 180.)
Discusses pUce of pupation of a r m obli uata. G: 5. (4629)
Brunner von Wattenwyl, Carl. Mono-
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Monograph of the stenopelvzatidae and ffryllacridi- dae; gives general remarks on characteristics of the groups external anatomy, mode of life. synopses of the genera and species; describes II new species of stenopelmatidae from North America, belonging to the genera stenopeln~utus (6), sckoenobates- (I), glaph rosomu, n. g. (~),<ammarotettis n. g. (11, cezfko$&: lus (2) ; describes 7 new species ofgryllacridae belon ing to the genera g-ryllacris (4), dibelona, n. g. (17; neortus, n. g. (I).
G: D. (4630)
Buffalo carpet-beetle (The). (Swiss cross, Sept. 1888, v. 4, p. 88-89, 18 cm.)
Brief account of authvenns scrophular;ae and its ravage, with means used against it; from Boston Transcript. G: D. (4631)
Burmeister, R. Einiges uber todtungsweise der kafer, sowie conservirung derselben. (Entom. zeitschr., I Aug. 1888, v. 2, p. 49- 50, 43 cm.
Modes of killing, collecting, and preservin coleop-
tera, G: %. (4632)
C., J. Smell and hearing in moths. (Na-
ture, 15 Nov. 1877, v. 17, p. 45, 8 cm.) Moths not very sensitive to the odor of ammonia, but quite so to sound.
G: D. (4633;
Cecil, H: Hearing and smell in insects.
(Nature, 14Mar. 1878, v. 17, p. 381, 14 cm.) Considers hearing a poorly differentiated sense and smell a well differentiated one in insects. G: a. (4634)
Cecil, H: Hearing in insects. (Nature, 6 Dec. 1877, v. 17, p. 102, 4 cm.)
Sphinx ligustri and å´m-etopsilu elpenor both noted to be quite sensitive to sound-vibrations.
G: D. (4035)
Clayes, S. L. Termites as builders. (Swiss cross, Sept. 1888, v. 4, p. 70-72, 73 cm.) Popular account of the white ants and their habita- tions.
G: D. (4636)
Cockerell, Theodore Dru Alison.
Can in-
sects distinguish between red and yellow? ( Can. entom., Sept. 1888, v. 20, p. 176- 178.)
From yellow insects and spiders frequenting- pink flowers the author arpes the possibility that insects cannot distinguish these colors. G: D. (4.637) Cockerell, Theodore Dru Alison. Dicerca
å´firolo?zgata
(Can. entom., Sept. 1888, v.
20, p. 178.)
States that larva of dicerca frolongafa bores in
wood of bo-bulus tremuloides.
G: D. (4638)
. A
Cordeaux, J : Heligoland. (Naturalist, an. 1888, p. 1-12, I photog. pi.)
Mentions a few migratory insects, including vanessa cardui. G: D. (4639)




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~ovember-December 1888.1 PSYCHE. [4640-46581 141 Easton, N. S. Caddis-flies construct new cases. (Swiss cross, June 1888, v. 3, p. 191, 3 cm.)
Mentions building of new cases by larvae of fihw- aneidae. G: D, (4640)
Eberhart, Noble M. The army worm.
(Hoosier naturalist July-Sept.
1888, v, 3,
no. 4-5, [p. 41, col. 2, 14 cm.)
Notes on Zeucania zmipuncta, and means against its ravages. G: B. (4641)
Eberhart, Noble M. The key to the fam-
ilies of orthoptera. (Hoosier naturalist, July-Sept, 1888, v. 3, no. 4-5, [p 41, col. 2, 8 cm.)
Reprint of the part pertaining to
orthoptera from
author's fi Key to the principle families of insect's." G: D. (4642)
Eberhart, Noble M. The peach-tiee borer. (Hoosier naturalist, July-Sept. 1888, v. 3, no. 4-5, [p. 41, col. 2-3, 8 cm.)
Notes on sanzina exitiosa, and how to destroy it larvae. G: B. (4643s
Edwards, H : Catalogue of species of the higher families of the North American
heterocera, described since Grote's "New check list" (1872)~ with those omitted from that publication. (Entoin. anler., Mar.
1888, v. 3, p. 221-232.)
Enumerates 247 species and varieties. G: B. (4644) Edwards, W: H : Description of a new
species of anthocharis. (Can. entom.,
Aug. 1888, v. 20, p. 158-159.)
Describes anthochansfima, a new species from Ari- zona. G: B e (4645)
Enock, F: Parasites of the hessian fly.
(Entomologist, Aug. 1888, v. 21, p. 202- 203.)
List of parasites bred from puparia of cecidomyia destructor in En land' among them meristls destructor is first recorded fiom dre at Britain. G: D. (4646) Erskine, Lillian. Pits in the antennae of butterflies. (Swiss cross, Sept. 1888, v. 4, P. 95, 12 cm.1
Brief account of pits on the antennae of certain diurnal lepidopteia; supposes them to be auditory or- gans. G: D. (4647)
Fernald, C : H : On the genus diutraea.
(Entoin. amer., Sept. 1888, v. 4, p. 119- 120.) .
Characterization of the genus diatraea, synopsis of the species, description of two new species from the United States. G: B. (4648)
Grobben, Carl. Ueber den entwicklungs-
cyklus von phylloxera vastatrix. (Vei-h. K.-k. zoo1.-bot. eesells. in Wien, 1888, v. 38,; Sitz.-bei-., p.-s4.)
Brief account of the different stages of fhylloxeya vz't;yoZiae and their relations to one another. G: B. (4649)
Grote, A: Radcliffe. Characters of pro-
tection and defence in insects. (Can.
entorn., Aug. 1888, V. 20, p. 154-156.)
Modes of defence, especially protective resemblan- ces, in insects.
G: D. (4650)
Grote, A: Radcliffe. Note on a German
edition of Ross's second voyage (1826-
1833.) (Can. entom., Aug. 1888, v. 20, p. I 57-1 58.)
References to the lepidoptera in the translation by Julius, graf vcn der Groben, of sir J : Ross's "Narra- tive of a second voyage in search of a north-west passage" . . . Lond., 1835. G: B. (4651) Grote. A : Radcliffe. Note on cei'athosia. tricolor, Sm. (Entom. amer., Sept. 1888, v. 4, p. 121.)
Crit. rev., by J : B. Smith, entitled,
"CeratJposia tricolor. Smith." (09. cit., p, 122-123.)
Considers cerathosia tricolor to be a noctuid, and '
criticizes J: B. Smith'i description of the species. G: D. (4652)
Grote, A : Radcliffe. Note on species of boarmia.
(Entom. amer., Aug. 1888, v. 4,
P. 98-99.)
Correction of error in author's "New species and notes on structure of moths and genera." (Can entom., July 1883, v. 15, p. 121-133) ; -further notes on boarmia. G: D. (4653)
Grote, A : Radcliffe. Remedy for rose-aphis. (Can. entom., Aug. 1888, v. 20, p. 160.) Recommends creolin for use against rose-aphis and tortrix. G: D. (4654)
Hamilton, J : Catalogue of the myi-mophi- lous coleoptei-a with bibliography and
notes. (Can. entom., Sept, 1888, v. 20,
p. 161-166.)
Enumeration of species of North American coleop- tera found in nests of formicidue, with notes on their habits. G: I). (4655)
Hamilton, J : Knowledge of death in in-
sects. (Can. entom., Sept. 1888, v. 20 p. 179-180.)
Discusses whether insects have any knowledge of death, in connection with their feigning death. G: D. (4656)
Handlirsch, Anton. [.Mimicry zwischen
hymenopteren verschiedener familien. ]
(Verh. K.-k. zoo1.-botan. gesells. in Wien, 1888, v. 38 ; Sitz.-ber., p. 67-69.)
Mentions four cases (from Mexico and South Am- erica) where species of gorytes imitate species of ves- fidae, and a case (from Europe) where stizus imi- tates scolia. G: D. (4657)
Harrach, M. Ueber das anfertigen mikro-
scopischer insekten-priiparate. (Entom.
zeitschi-., 15 Aug. 1888, v. 2, p. 57-58, 52 cm.)
How to prepare microscopic slides, with especial ref- erence to entomological specimens.
G: D. (4658)




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142 [4659-46781 PSYCHE.
1 November-December 1888.
Heller, Karl M.
Die posten~bryonalen ent-
wicklungsstande des dermestes$ernVianus
Cast. (Verh. K.-k. zoo1.-bot. gesells, in Wien, 1888, v. 38; Abh., p. 157-160, pi. 4, fig. I.)
Describes egg, larva, and pupa of dermestes pencvia- nus in detaila figures larval mouth-parts; describes mode of rearing, gives notes on the molts, and differ- ences from other desmestes larvae. G: D. (4659) Hinchliff, K. M. High flat-setting. (En- tomologist, Aug. 1888, v. 21, p. 203-205.) Defends the English mode of low-setting for speci- mens of lepidoptera. G: D. (4660)
Horn, G: H : Pleocoma, Lec., its syste-
inatic position and indication of new spe- cies. (Entom. amer., March. 1888, v. 3, p. 43-235-1
Discussion of systematic position of fleocoma: ana- lytic table of the species, including three new ones. G: D. (4661)
Hubbard, H. Guernsey. Breeding habits
of a.m$/ticerits biraitdatt~s. (Entorn amer., Aug. 1888, v. 4, p. 95-96.)
Larval habits of amphiceriis bicaz~datus. G: D. ( 4662)
H[ulst, G : Duryea]. [Food plants of two lepidoptera.] (Entom. amer., Aug. 1888,
4, p- 3.5.)
Note on food-plants ofempretia stirnulea and aputela amencma. G: D. (4663)
Hulst, G: Duryea. New genera and spe-
cies of ei>i$asckiae and å´phycitidae (En- torn. amel-., Sept. 1888, v. 4, p. 113-118.) Describes 6 new genera and < new bpecie5 of epip- asckiae, and 12 new genera and 18 new species of phy- citidae. G: D. (4664)
Jacoby, Martin. The Colorado beetle.
(Entomologist, Aug. 1888. v. 31, p. 213.) Considers the Colorado potato beetle to be leptin- otavsa decemlineata, rather than doryfhom dece~nZin- eata . G: D. (4665)
Kohl, Franz Friedrich. Neue hymenopteren in den saminliingen des K.-k., naturhistor- ischen hofinilse~~n~s. 111. (Verh. K.-k. zoo1.-bot. gesells. in Wien, 1888, v. 38; Abh., p. 133-156, pi. 3-4.)
Descriptions of new species of hymenoptera, includ- ing astatus $ictus and a. strifosus from Mexico. G: D. (4666)
Krancher, Oskar Paul.
Einiger liber zdi-
ma-z~~cht. (Inseken-borse, 15 Feb. 1887, v.4,no.+[p.z,] 27cm.)
Account of breeding in and in (close-breeding) of spilosoma lub&ipeda var. zdima for eight generations without apparent degenei ation. G: D. (4667) Leng, C : W. Preliminary list of water bee- tles of Staten Island. (Proc. Nat. sci.
assoc. Staten Isl., special no. 8, June
1888, I p.)
List of 85 species of aquatic coleoptera from Staten Island, N. Y.
G: D. (4668)
Lind, G. Dallas. The common toad. (Hoo-
sier naturalist, July-Sept. 1888, v. 3, 110. 4-5
[pa 71, ~01- 3, 9 c1n.I
Notes eating of larvae of doryphora decemli~~eata by bufo americanus. G: D. (4669)
Loomis, H. Moths and butterflies of Japan, (Swiss cross, June 1888, v. 3, p. 171-172, 25 cm.)
N'umberof species of lepidoptera of Japan. Notes
on a few species of rhopolocera.
G: D. (4670)
Merlin, C. L. W. A hunting wasp. (Na-
ture, 18 July 1878, v. 18, p. 3 t 1, 38 cm.) Extract (under name C. L. W. Werlin),
entitled, "Do wasps hunt by scent?"
(The
scientific man, 11 Jan. 1879,~. I, p. 85, 9 cm.)
Account of a wasp hunting a spider, as seen in Greece. G: D. (4671)
Mik, Joset. Nomenclatorische fehltritte, (Verh. I<.-k. zoo1.-bot. gesells in Wien, 1888, v. 38 ; Sitz.-ber. p. 64-67.)
Discusses nuineious objectionable names given to orgmisins, including insects. G: D. (4672) Mik, Josef. Die veranderlichkeit der far- bung des hnarkleides von volncella body- lam, L. (Verh. K.-k. zoo1.-bot. gesells. in Wien, 1888, v. 38 ; Sitz.-ber., p. 63-64.) Discusses the vai iation in coloration of vohicella bombylans to agree with the color of the species of born- tits whose nests it inhabits. G: D. (4673) Moffat, J : Alston. Captures in 1887. (Can. entom., Sept. 1888, v. 20, p. 178-179.)
Additions to the lists of previously known lepidop- tera. G: D. (4674)
Murtfeldt, Mary Esther. Extracts from the report on entomology. (Colman's rural
world, 8 Mar. 1888, v. 41, no. 10, p. 75, col. 2-4, 119 cm., il.)
Extract from a paper read by the author before the Missouri State horticultural society : treats of oncideres cingulatus, amphicerus bicaudatzts [con-.], hybern ia tiharia, ant/zono~i~z~så´prwzicid and apple-tree borers. G: D. (4675)
Murtfeldt, Mary Esther. The flat-headed
apple tree borer. Chrysobothris femorata, Fabr. (Coli-nan's rural world, 29 Mar. 1888, v. 41, no. 13. p. 99, col. 2, il., 36 cm.) Account of different stages of ch~yso'bothris femo- ratq figures larva, pupa, and imago.
G: D. (4676)
Packard, Alpheus Spring'. Arsenical poi- sons in the orchard. (Garden and forest, 29 Feb. 1888, v. I, no. I, p. 9, 17 cm.) On the use of Paris green and London purple against apple and plum insects.
G: Dm (4677)
Packard, Alpheus Spring. Certain cone-
eating insects. (Garden and forest, 25
April 1888, v. I, no. 9, p. 100-101, fig. 18-21.42 cm.)
Figures larva and imago of pinipestis yeniczdella and cones of cities infested by it ' account of its habits and notes on dryocoetes aff'aber and on a few other cone eating insects. G: D. (4678)




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November-December 1888. j PSYCHE. [4679-46971 I 43 Packard, Alpheus Spring. List of the spi- ders, myi-iopods and insects of Labrador- (Can. entom., Aug. 1888, v. 20. p. 141-
149.)
List of terrestrial arthropods of Labrador with lo- calities of capture.
G: D. (4679)
Packard, Alpheus Spring. The red mite
on verbenas. (Garden and forest, 7 Mar.
1888, v. I, no. 2; p. 20, I fig., 22 cm.) Account, with figure, of tetran chus telarfus [corr.] , is attacks 01 r e , and rfflTiedies for this pest. G: D. (4680)
Pearson, G. C. The tarantula (The illus- trated cosmos, Jan. 1881, v. I, no. I, p. 1-2, 34 cm., fig.1-3.)
Popular illustrated account of a California .rap-door spider, myale nidulum, and its nest.
G: D. (4681)
Peckham. G: W., and Elizabeth (Giffosd). North American spiders of the family
attidae. (Trans. Wise. acad. sciences,
arts and letters, Sept. 1888, v. 7, p. 1-106, pi. 1-6.)
Separate, with t.-p. cover, Sept. 1888,
106 p., 6 pi. 25 X 16, t 18 X 10.2.
Describes 20 new s~ecies of attidue. from North America, of which 2 belong to new
(sadula and
admesti)zaj here described.
G: D. (4682)
Prairie lark (The). Its insectivorous hab- its.
(Valley naturalist. Jan. 1878, v. I, p.
3, col. 1-2, 17 cm.)
Describes how alauda arvensis captures cut-worms [larvae of nocpfdae].
G: D. (4683)
Ragonot, Emile L. Diagnoses of North
American flycitidae and galleriidae.
Paris, author. Dec. 1887. t.-p. cover, 20 p., 21 X 14, t 17 X 10.
Crit. rev., by A: R. Grote, entitled, "On the diagnoses of N. Am. -phyc{tidae, by E. L. Ragonot." (Can. entom., Api-. 1888,
v. 207 p. 74-75.)
Crit. rev., by G : D. Hulst. (Entom.
amel-., May, 1888, v. 4, p. 38-39.)
Describes 94 new species and 21 new genera of phy- citidae, and two new species of galleriidae. G: D. (4684)
Riley, C : Valentine. Water-beetles destroy- ing carp. (Bull. U. S. fish comm., 21 Aug. 1885,~. 5, no.20, p.311.)
Notes destruction of young- carp [cyfrimis carpi01 by a species of dytiscus or cybister. G: D. (4685) Rivers, J. J. Note upon aegeria imi>rofiia, H. E., and a description of the 9. (En-
tom. amer., Aug. 1888, v. 4, p. 99.)
Habits and variations of aegeria imfrofria, with a description of the female.
G: D. (4686)
Rudow, Ferdinand. Ueber sammlungen
von hautfluglern, hymenopteren. (En-
tom. zeitschr., I Sept. 1888, v. 2, p. 61-62, 74 cm.1
General statements on collecting hymenoptera, their rearing, and the books necessary for their stud G: ^'. (4687)
Scudder, S: Hubbard. The butterflies of
South Africa. (Can. entom., Aug. 1888,
v. 20, p. 13-160.)
Review of Roland Trimen7s "South African butter- flies: a monograph" . . . v. I- 2, . Lond, 1887.
G; i. (4688)
Scudder, S : Hubbard. The introduction
and spread of tieris ra@e in North Amer
ica, 1860-1886. (Mem. Bost. soc. nat.
hist., Sept. 1887, v. 4, no. 3, p. 52-61, I map.)
Separate, with t.-p. cover, p. 52-61,
31 X 23, t 22 X 16.3; map, 30 X 49 t
22 x 44.
Account of the
spread of pieris ?,ajae in North
America. G: D. (4689)
Scudder, S : Hubbard. John Abbot, the
aui-elian.
(Can. entom., Aug. 1888, v. 20,
P. 1.50- 1.54.)
A brief biographical and bibliographical sketch of John Abbot, an early entomologist in North America. G: D. (4690)
Scudder, S : Hubbai-d. Note on the group ez~maeidi- (Biol. centrali-americana, Lep- id. : Rhopalocera, 1888, v. 2, p. 110-1 12.) Separate. p. 110-112~32 X 26, t 21 X 15.2. Discusses the systematic position of the eztmaeia'i, putting them in the lycaenidae.
G: D. (4691)
Slauson, D. L. An insect cloud in New
York.
(Sci. amer., 22 Sept. 1888, v. 59, p.
181, CO~. 3, 6 c~I.)
Notes swarm of insects "resembling winged ants"