1890.] ENTOMOLOGICAL XLWS. 45 



(iyrinns] by I-".. Ragusa. " Coleotteri nuovi o ] >co coiiosciuti della Sicilia 

 (com.)" [new or little known Sicilian < '< ileoptera] by !".. Ragusa; no new 

 species dcsi Tibed in this part. "Una n<>tasulla Chalcis Dalmannii," by 

 T. DeStefani. This number is accompanied by the indict.-^ lor Yol. \'II[ 

 of this journal. 



THK WORK or \ DKCADK rpox FOSSIL INSKCTS 1880-1889, by S. II. 

 Scudder [Annual address of the retiring ])resident of tlie Cambridge l.n- 

 tomological Club |an. 10, 1890. Kxcerpt from " 1'sychc," January, 1890.] 

 The author hen- gives a comprehensive and very readable account of the 

 work accomplished in this field in the decade just ended; a field in which, 

 as is well known, he has been the principal laborer. In speaking of the 

 relative abundance of fossil insects the author says: "During the past 

 summer, in explorations for the ( ,e< (graphical Survey, I found that the 

 strata of a considerable tract of country, certainly many, probably hun- 

 dreds of square miles in extent, lying in western Colorado and eastern 

 I 'tali, were packed with fossil insects as closely as at Florissant. There 

 can hardly be any doubt that we shall soon be able in our Western terri- 

 tories to rehabilitate successive faunas as successfully as has been d ,ne 

 with many of our vertebrate types, anil as has not yet been done for in- 

 sects in any country in the world. What we really need is a 51 

 <>f trained workers to ' go in and possess the land.' No one would wel- 

 come them more heartily than one who is almost a solitary worker in the 

 American field." 



P.KiuH.iA CENTRALI-AMERICANA, Part LXXX of Zoology; Xovem 

 1889. [Received January, 1890.] -Contains " A K. \CH.NIDA ARANKIKI \," 

 by O. 1'ickard Cambridge, pp. 41-48, pi. iv. 83 figs., 1 8 colored; u new 

 species are described from the genera /:/V/;w, Tiirckhcitnia and Carcf>al.\'i*. 

 CoM-ioi'TKUA as follows: Yol. Ill, part I, pp. 145-168, plates vii and viii. 

 46 figs. 20 colored. This portion on the nnf>rcstides contains the descrip- 

 tions by C. O. Waterhouse, of many new species, usually illustrated in 

 colors. Yol. YI, part I, Supplement, pp. 153-168, plate xxxix, 34 figs. 25 

 colored. Many new species are here described by M. Jacoby, entirely 

 from /'IK-// ybrac/iys and Ch/ainys. " LKIMI>< >i- TKKA /\/i<>f>a/<>CcT(i,\\. II," 

 by F. I). C.odman and < >. Salvin; pp. 153-18}, plates Ixiii and Ixiv, 55 figs. 

 all colored. This part contains the systematic consideration of the group 

 from Colias ccssonia\.Q Enantia virgo. The pale '/'<-rins, allied to m<-.\-j- 

 cana in pattern, which was returned as from tin- Mt. ( iraham Range in 

 Ari/ona is here deii-rinined i with an excellent figure as '/". i:,nsJii:\ili(iii<i 

 Feld. =- in^nila Feld. ^nttinsa Reak. = inc.vicana I'.oisd. in "Sp. 

 Gen." Ihe synonymy as worked out in this part is most instructi\e to 

 the student. " Li i-nx >i>ri:RA HI-.TI.KI CKKA, \"ol. I," by 1 1. Druce, pp. 

 336, contains the systematic treatment of this suborder from />r,'/>.\- 

 ocellata \K> Anomis agillacea. While revieuing this stupendous work it 

 may interest our readers to know that the following entomological volumes 

 have been completed: Coleoptera, \'ol. I, |>art i ,.\Jc(^ha^a\, by II. \\". 

 Hates; Yol. I, part 2 i . /</,/>//</<,'</, etc. i, by D. Shar|>; \'ol. 1 1 1, pai t 2 \ Ma/a- 



