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Psyche 7:388, 1894.

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the thorax joins the body, and
dropping
on its legs with its prey between them,
ran rapidly under the log before it could be captured. The incident explains in a
measure the constant presence of the
Clems on soft wood logs. They are
looking for food. F. C. Bowditch.
TUTT'S BRITISH MOTHS.- In a volume on
British Moths just publiiihed by Routledge (London) Mr. J, W. Tutt treats the principal members of that group in England in accord- ance with the latest views on their classifi- cation as outlined by him in a paper read last year to the Entomological Society of London. To some of the groups he appends a table of their l.ime of appearance in the different stages. larval food plfinlsi, frequency, etc. A dozen colored plates and about fifty cuts, most of them rather rude but chi-ac- teristic, help the beginner.
There is a great
deal of information packed into the 368 pp., but discriminating tables for the separation of the groups would have rendered the work more serviceable,
NOTES.- In the recent memoirs of the
Zoological society of France (v. 8. p. 1-140, 1895), Charles Janet follows in minute detail all the steps in the formation of a complete nest of V@a crabro, with numerous figures. It will be found very valuable for comparison in studying 0111. native wasps' nests.
With the issue of part xxiv, Moore's Lepi- doptera Indica completes its second volume, in which the Sitt.yrinae are concluded, the Elymniinae and Amathusiinsie treated, and the Nymplinlinae only begun. Apparently
it will takc newly or quite another pair of volumes to complete this last subfamily. The present part contains illustrations of the early singes of Cliaraxcs iind Eulepis. Two figures are given of apparently full grown [iirviie of A'. atJinmas but with totiilly different markings, to*which no reference appears in the text.
H. F. Wickham prints a list of 700 Lake
Superior Coleopteni, adding their extralitni- tal distribution, in Vol. 6 of the Davenport Academy's Proceedings,
We regret to notice the death early in
March, at the age of 85, of Dr. Juan Gund- Inch who has lived since 1839 in Cuba and devoted himself for more than half a century to the study of its natural history and espe- cially its entomology and ornithology. His rich and unique colleclion was secured some years since by the Havana Institute.
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