46 ENTOMOLOGICAL NKUS. [March, 



by II. S. Gorhani; and Y<>1. \' i Lon^icornia i, by II. \V. 

 Hates and ( /.V//<7//</V\) by I >. Sharp. These lour volumes cf.ni.iin 2088 

 pages and 69 plates, with many hundred figures. In acklitii.n several other 

 volumes on Coleoptera are well under way. \'ol. I of the l\lu>f>uloccrii is 

 complete, save the index and title, running through the suborder from 

 Danais plexippus to haf>)iis hc>-a. 



INSECT LIFE, \'<>1. II, No. 6, December, 1889 (Received Ian. 14, 1890). 

 It hardly seems worth while to enumerate the usual richness .1' the m< uithly 

 issues of this most excellent periodical, as it may be had from the I". S. 

 Department of Agriculture for the asking; no entomologist can allord to 

 be without it. Besides short notes on "The Official Association of Fcon- 

 omic Entomologists," "Entomology at the Paris Exposition," 'The 

 Mediterranean Flour-moth," "Spider-bites," "Scent in Dung beetles," 

 "Beetles from Stomach of a Chuck-wills-widow," " A harvest-mite de- 

 stroying the eggs of the Potato beetles," " Injury to grass from Gastro- 

 phvsa polygoni" "Damage to Pine by Rhaginin lineatiini" Notes on 

 " Vedalia" and "On Heematobia serrata" there are longer papers on 

 "The so-called Mediterranean Flour-moth," with illustrations; "The 

 Ox-warble (Ilypotit > 'ina bovis), illustrated;" "Association of Economic 

 Fntomologists First Annual Meeting," by L. O. Howard, secretary pro. 

 tern.; "Office and Laboratory Organization," by S. A. Forbes. Follow- 

 ing these are " General Notes" on " Oviposition of Tragidion fnlrit>cnne" 

 " Insects injuring the tea-plant in Ceylon," "On some gall-making insecis 

 in Xew Zealand," "Dr. Franz Low" and "Eugene Maillot," obituary 

 notices, and the usual quota of purely economic notes. 



ILLUSTRATIONS < >F TYPICAL SPECIMENS OFLEPIDOPTERA 1 1 KTLKI.CI K v 

 IN THE COLLECTION OF THE BRITISH MI/SETM, I 'art 7, by Arthur Gardiner 

 IHitler, 1889, contains an account of a collection of Macro-I.epidoptera 

 made in the district of Kangra India by the Kev . J. H. Hocking in tin- 

 years 1877-79, chielly at Dharmsala. The number of species amounts I.. 

 ii] .wards of 780, many reared from larvce. There is a systematic list and 

 a list of descriptions with notes. Vol. VII consists of 124 pages, 18 fine 

 colored lithographic plates representing 249 figures. 



In the COMPTES KE.NI.TS HEBDOMADAIRES I>KS SEANCES DE LA So- 

 CIETE m<; BIOLOGIE (Paris) ninth series, 1890, No. i. M. Gaston I'.oiichet 

 has a short note on the "Action of tin- Venom of the Hymenoptera on 

 the gray wall-lizard." He slates that lie caused some wasps, bees, and 

 oilier hymenopti-rs to sting some gray lizards, some of which received 

 eight or ten stings on tin- most sensitive parts, such as the evelids, tongue, 

 etc. In most cases the piercer remained sticking in the tlesh. The lizards 

 apparently suffered little pain, and no inllammation u as visible at the 

 places stung. None of the lizards who were stung died. 



TRANSACTIONS <>! Tin WISCONSIN . \CAIUMY Ol SCIENCES, Aurs, 

 AND LETTERS, Vol. VII, iss^ S; (published iNSf.i, contains a paper f>n the 

 Auid.e of North America by George W. and Fh/abeth ( i. 1'eckham. ;j 



