1890.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 47 



genera and 79 species are described, including both new genera and spe- 

 cies, and six plates figure details. Also by the same authors and \Vin. 1 1. 

 Wheeler "Spiders of the Subfamily I.yssomanae" (of the world); a num- 

 ber of new species are described. \Ve have not seen plates \i and xii 

 intended to accompany this paper. 



In the SCHRIFTEN DES NATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHEN YKREINS FUR 

 ScHLESwio-HoLSTEiN (Kiel), Bd. VIII, Heft i, 1889, W. Wiistnei con- 

 tinues his notes on the Hymenoptera of Schleswig-Holstein in his third 

 " Beitrage zur Insectenfauna Schleswig-Holsteins." 



In LE NATURLISTE (Paris) for Jan. 15, 1890, L. Planet describes the 

 larva and nymph of Helops striatiis, with woodcuts, and 1'. Dognin de- 

 scribes three new species of Lepidoptera from Zamora, belonging to the 

 genera Ficfo/iia and Acida/ia. 



SlTZUNGSBERICHTE DER KoNIGL. HoHMISCH. GESELL. D. WlSSEN- 



SCHAFTEN (Prague), 1889, I, contains "Revision der in Kolenatis Tri- 

 chopteren-Sammlung enthaltenen Arten," by Fr. Klapalek asynonymical 

 article. 



ATTI DELLA SOCIETADEI NATURALISTI DI MODKNA, Serie III, Vol. VIII, 



fascic. ii, 1889 (published in Italian), has " Notes on Arachnida received 

 troin South America," by G. Boeris, describing four new species. 



H. PIERS in Proc. and Trans. Nova Scotia Inst. Nat. Science, Vol. VII, 

 pt. iii, describes a larva of the May-beetle with parasitical fungus. 



TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY Vol. XVI, 

 Jan. -Dec., 1889, (380 pp. 8 plates), contains a Revision of the species of 

 Cardiophorus Esch. of America north of Mexico, by Frederick Blanchard; 

 On the species of Macrops Kirby, inhabiting N. America (plate I), by 

 W. G. Dietz, M.D.; Contributions to a knowledge of the Lepidoptera of 

 West Africa, Paper II, (plates 2-4), and Descriptions of new species of 

 Japanese Heterocera, by Rev. W. J. Holland; Synopsis of N. Am. species 

 of the genus Oxybclits, by Chas. Robertson; Two new species of butter- 

 Hies, by H. Skinner, M.D.; Catalogue of Coleoptera common to N. Am., 

 Northern Asia and Europe, with the distribution and bibliography, by John 

 Hamilton, M.D.; a Synopsis of the Halticini of Boreal America (pis. 5-7), 

 by George H. Horn, M.I) ; Contributions towards a monograph of the 

 Noctuidae of temperate N. Am. Revision of the species of Oiicoou-inis 

 i plate 8), by John B. Smith; and Proceedings of the monthly meetings 

 of the Entomological Section of Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia for the year 

 1889. 



ERRATA. 



Page 5, line 22, read type of coloration contrary to what obtains, etc. 

 15, line 30, for Tcnzcm read /.cit 



19, line i, for worm read worn. 



20, line 25, for from read forms. 

 20, line 33, for marked read naked. 



