Dec., '05] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 321 



Rhynchota : Heteroptera, two volumes, W. L. Distant and G. C. 



Champion, 914 pages, 61 plates, 1880-1901. 

 Homoptera, one volume, W. L. Distant and VV. W. Fowler, 157 



pages, 13 plates, 1881-1905. 

 Orthoptera, one volume, A. de Bormans, A. Pictet, H. de Saussure, 



and L. Zehnter, 468 pages, 22 plates, 1893-1899. 



At the same date, March, 1905, there had also been pub- 

 lished parts of other incompleted volumes, as follows : 



Chilopoda and Diplopoda, R. I. Pocock, 56 pages, 5 plates. 

 Coleoptera : Rhyncophora, parts of three volumes, D. Sharp, G. C. 



Champion and W. F. H. Blandford, 952 pages, 38 plates. 

 Rhynchota Homoptera, parts of two volumes, W. W. Fowler and T. 



D. A. Cockerel!, 349 pages, 21 plates. 



Neuroptera, A. E. Eaton and P. P. Calvert, 144 pages, 5 plates. 

 Orthoptera, L. Bruner and A. P. Morse, 152 pages, i plate. 



The totals of all that had been published to that date were as 

 follows : 



Subject Completed Volumes Incompleted Volumes Pages Plates 



Archaeology 5 386 392 



Botany 5 2,517 no 



Zoology 40 8 18,518 1041 



Totals 50 8 21,421 1,543 



Of the volumes devoted to Zoology 29 completed and 7 

 incompleted refer to Insects. These 36 volumes treat of the 

 following numbers of species : 



Total Number of Speck's Nc\v Spt.-> irs Described 



Coleoptera 15.293 9-659 



Hymenoptera 2,202 ^053 



Lepidoptera 5,444 1,672 



Diptera 2,320 993 



Rhynchota Heteroptera 1.700 870 



Homoptera 1,168 616 



Orthoptera 877 310 



Neuroptera 152 44 



Totals (to March, 1905) 29,156 I 5,^^7 



The following entomological subjects have not yet been 

 started : Aculeate Hymenoptera and Neuroptera (other than 

 Ephemeridae and Odonata) for which no one, willing to under- 



