334 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December, 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, xvi, Nc. 950. Wash- 

 ington, 1893. A descriptive catalogue of the harvest-spiders (Phalan- 

 giidae) of Ohio, C. M. Weed, 3 pis. No. 951. Scientific results of the 

 U. S. Eclipse Expedition to West Africa, 1889-90. Report on the Insecta, 

 Arachnida and Myriapoda, C. V. Riley; including descriptive papers on 

 the Odonata, P. P. Calvert, figs., and Araneina, N. Banks, figs., and G 

 Marx, i pi. 



ZOE, iv, 3. San Francisco, Sept. 19, 1893. The species of Amblychila,. 

 ]. J. Rivers, 2 pis. 



PSYCHE. Cambridge, Mass., November, 1893. The primitive number 

 of Malpighian vessels in insects, vi, W. M. Wheeler. Note on a Scut- 

 telerid on native tobacco in Arizona, C. H. T. Townsend. Descriptions 

 of new species and genera of West African Lepidoptera, y, W. J. Holland, 

 2 pis. Descriptions of new aculeate Hymenoptera, W. J. Fox. 



BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, v, pp. 

 241 et seq. New York, October, 1893. Descriptive catalogue of the but- 

 terflies found within fifty miles of New York City, together with a brief 

 account of their life-histories and habits, W. Beutenmiiller. 



JAHRBUCHER DES NASSAUISCHEN VEREINS FUR NATURKUNDE. Jahr- 

 gang 46. Wiesbaden, 1893. Ornithoptcra schoenbergi n. sp. from the 

 Malay Archipelago, Dr. A. Pagenstecher, 3 pis. A lepidopterological 

 voyage around the world, Dr. A. Seitz. 



COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE DE BIOLOGIE. Paris, Oct. 27, 1893. Sphex 

 splendidulus da Costa [larval development], M. Nicolas. 



THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD. London, Oct. 15, 1893. The Presi- 

 dent's address to the British Association considered in its relation to en- 

 tomology, J. W. Tutt. On the larva of Arctia caia, with special reference 

 to its correlated variations in plumage, moulting and hybernation, T. A. 

 Chapman, M.D. 



THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. London, Ont., November, 1893. 

 The late Professor Westwood, Ed. The fourth annual meeting of the 

 Association of Economic Entomologists [with brief abstracts of the papers 

 read]. List of Coleoptera taken at Sparrow Lake, Out., J. Hamilton, 

 M.I). New North American Homoptera, No. vi, E. P. Van Duzee. 

 Notes on a polymorphic butterfly, .Sy;/r/;/o? lacinia Geyer (in Hub. Zutr.), 

 with description of its preparatory stages, W. H. Edwards. On a seem- 

 ingly microlepidopterous leaf-miner of the narrow-leaved cottonwood, C. 

 H. T. Townsend. Hyblcea puera Cramer, T. D. A. Cockerell. 



THE OTTAWA NATURALIST, November, 1893. Fauna Ottawaensis, Hy- 

 menoptera Phytophaga, W. H. Harrington. 



EVOLUTION AND TAXONOMY. An essay on the application of the 

 theory of Natural Selection in the classification of animals and plants, il- 

 lustrated by a study of the evolution of the wings of insects and by a 



