Sept., '05] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 24! 



Baron de Selys, the JEschninse, Libellulinse and Agrioninae are now 

 being revised by MM. Martin, Ris and Fcerster respectively. 



The non-Odonate Nenroptera include types of Latreille, Rambur, Bur- 

 meister, Pictet, Hagen, de Selys, McLachlan, Eaton, Wesmael, Curtis, 

 Kolenati and Albarda. 



Among the Orthoptera are types of Fischer, Serville, Fonscolombe 

 and Brunner von Wattemvyl. 



Baron Walthere de Selys-Longchamps, inheritor of his father's library, 

 has placed a large number of letters and printed documents relating to 

 these collections and to their subject matter at the disposition of the 

 Museum for a period of time. 



[A brief notice of the entomological collections of the Brussels Museum 

 was published in the NEWS for April, 1896, pp. 97 99]. 



"WHAT business is papa in, mamma?" asked little Robbie. 

 " Why, he's in the hardware business, my boy." 

 " And does he sell cockroaches, mamma? " 

 " Why, Robbie ! What a question. Of course he doesn't." 

 "Well, he's got a sign on the store window which reads: ; We sell 

 everything to be found in the kitchen.' ' 



Entomological Literature. 



CATALOGUE OF NORTH AMERICAN DIPTERA. A new catalogue of 

 North American Diptera, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 

 xlvi, No. 1444, 1905, has appeared, the compiler being Professor ]. M. 

 Aldrich, of the University of Idaho. This is the third catalogue of this 

 group of insects that has been produced, all of which have been pub- 

 lished as Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. The first was written 

 by Baron Osten Sacken in 1858, the second was a complete revision by 

 the same author in 1878, and although but twenty-five years have elapsed 

 since the appearance of Osten Sacken's last edition, the aspect of Dip- 

 terology has so completely changed that a new catalogue has become a 

 necessity. 



To make available the valuable matter of the former catalogue, to add 

 the numerous new genera and species which have appeared since its 

 time, to enlarge the bibliography, especially in economic and biologic 

 lines, and include all publications of the last quarter century, and to note 

 the increased knowledge of the distribution of the various species : this 

 is the task Mr. Aldrich set himself seven years ago. The painstaking 

 and admirable manner in which he has accomplished it deserves for him 

 the best will of his fellow students of Diptera. 



As Mr. Aldrich remarks, so much has been done on American Dipter- 

 ology within the quarter of a century that a comparison of his catalogue 



