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of the coccinellid beetle, Epilachna borealis, 180, ix, 201-23. d'Or- 

 chymont, A. Notes pour la classification et la phylogenie des Pal- 

 picornia, 86, Ixxxv, 91-106. Observations sur le mode de respiration 

 de quelques Palpicornia aquatiques, 87, 1916, 139-41. Runner, G. A. 

 Effect of rontgen rays on the tobacco, or cigarette beetles...., 

 447, vi, 383-88. Schaeffer, C. New sps. of Throscidae [3 new], 411, 

 xi, 62-3. 



Angell, J. W. Two new lucanids from No. America, 411, xi, 70. 

 Fall, H. C. New N. Am. species of Notoxus [7 new], 411, xi, 

 33-38. Swaine, J. M. New sps. of the family Ipidae [7 new], 4, 

 1916, 181-92. Wickham, H. F. New fossil C. from the Florissant 

 beds [many new], 350, vii, No. 3, 20 pp. 



HYMENOPTERA. Cornetz, V. Sur 1'orientation chez des 

 fourmis, 278, xxiv, 519-2-0. da Costa Lima, A. Consideracoes sobre 

 a campanha contra a formiga sauva (Atta sexdens); Sobre alguns 

 Chalcidideos parasitas de sementes de Myrtaceas, 389, xix, 179- 

 192; 193-203. Cresson, E. T. The Cresson types of Hymenoptera, 

 533, No. 1, 141 pp. Prison, T. H. Note on the habits of Psithyrus 

 variabilis, 411, xi, 46-7. Holland, E. B. Detection of arsenic in 

 bees, 179, ix, 364-6. Lutz, F. E. The geographical distribution of 

 Bombidae, with notes on certain sps. of Boreal America, 153, xxxv, 

 501-21. Meade-Waldo, G. Notes on the Apidae in the collection 

 of the British Museum, with descriptions of n. sps., 11, xvii, 448-70. 



Andrews, H. A new ant of the genus Messor from Colorado, 5, 

 1916, 81-3. Cockerell, T. D. A. Some Rocky Mts. andrenid bees 

 [2 new], 4, 1916, 252-4. Descriptions and records of bees [1 new], 

 11, xvii, 428-35. New and little known bees from California [27 

 new; 1 n. gen.], 189, viii, 43-64. Girault, A. A. Descriptions of and 

 observations on some Chalcidoid H. [7 new]; A new gen. of ptero- 

 malid chalcidoid H. from N. Am. [2 new], 4, 1916, 242-46; 246-48. 

 Timberlake, P. H. Revision of the parasitic H. insects of the 

 genus Aphycus, with notice of some related genera [many new], 

 50, 1, 561-640. 



ETUDES DE LEPIDOPTEROLOGIE COMPARE'E, by CHARLES OBERTHUR, 

 Rennes, France. Volume eleven of this important work has been re- 

 cently issued. It is in two parts, the first consisting of text and por- 

 traits of Lepidopterists, and the second comprises the colored plates. 

 There are 288 pages and twelve portraits. One hundred and seventeen 

 pages are devoted to tropical American Rhopalocera of the genera 

 Catagramma, Callicorc and Pcrisania, and a number of new species are 

 described. Several pages are occupied by historical matters in relation 

 to the war of 1870 and then some of the Lepidoptera of Madagascar 



