1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 12J 



ENTOMOLOGIST (London), April, 1892. Portrait and sketch of Henry 

 Walter Bates. Hellebore as an insecticide, W. W. Smith. "Assem- 

 bling" in Lepidoptera, H. D. Sykes. Notes on Lepidoptera taken in 

 1891, Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge. Notes on British Lepidoptera, Mc- 

 /anippe, R. South. Notes on the synonymy of Noctuid Moths, A. G. 

 Butler. Descriptions of some new species of Phytophagous Coleoptera 

 and synonymic notes,* M. Jacoby. 



SOCIETE LlNNEENNE DU NORD DE LA FRANCE (Amiens), No. 232, Oc- 



tober, 1891. Contributions to the local fauna (Arachnida), M. Du Roselle. 



ZOOLOGICAL RECORD for 1890. Published by the Zoological Society, 

 London, 1892. Insecta by D. Sharp. Arachnida and Myriapoda by R. 

 I. Pocock. 



NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED 

 IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE. 



COLEOPTERA. 



Nine n. sp. Rhipidophorus, Ncmognatha, Zonitis, Mex., Centr. Am., 

 Champion, Biol. Centr. Amer., Coleop. iv, pp. 361-368. Phytophaga, 

 n. genera and species, Jacoby, id., vi, suppl., pp. 281-312. 



Zygops (Apatorhynchus} leopardinus des Loges, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 

 xxxv, p. 40, Mex. 



Amara femoralis Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, p. 30. A. robitsfiifa, 

 p. 32, Calif. A. nupera, p. 33, Col., N. Mex. A. imitatrix, p. 34, Calif., 

 Wash., Vancouver. Trechus barbara", p. 41, Calif. Platyniis inyniie- 

 codes, arizoncnsis, langnidus, p. 42, Ariz. Pinodytes Hamilton!, p. 45, 

 Pa. P. pusio, p. 45, Cal. Dendrophilus californicits, p. 46, Cal. Aitla- 

 cosce/is purpurea, p. 46, Ariz. Notoxits Sc/ra'arzi, p. 47, Utah. 



DIPTERA. 



Syrphidae: n. gen., sp. and synopses of genera, Williston, Biol. Centr. - 

 Amer. Diptera, III, pp. 1-72. 



One new genus (C/isfoinorpha) and ten new species of Tachinidce, U. 

 S., Townsend, Can. Ent. xxiv, pp. 77-82. 



Hcematobia aids, Snow, 220! Rep. Ent. Soc. Out., p. 96, Minn. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



Cercopales Stretchii, Fox, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, p. 52, Cal. 



Nematus borea/is Marlatt, Proc. Acad. Phila. 1892, p. 133, Disco Is. 



Ichneumon Jisca'Hsis Fox, Proc. Acad. Phila 1892, p. 134, Disco Is. 



Nolopygiis aiiicricana Harrington, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 98, rrionopoda 

 canadensis p. 98, Ischyrocnemis otlawaensis p. 98, Pimpla cllophc p. 99, 

 Can. 



* Contains new species other than North American. 



