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Phylogeny of Ant Lions (Neur.). 



There has heen a general agreement in looking upon the Nymphidae, 

 a small family confined to Australia, as representing the probable type 

 from which the Myrmeleonidae have been developed. But this agree- 

 ment is not, so far as I can ascertain, based on any definite evidence, 

 but merely on a general impression of the Myrmeleonid-like appear- 

 ance of the well-known Nymphcs myrmeleonidcs Leach. We now have 

 definite venational evidence to go upon, and we may say at once that 

 it fully establishes the claim of the Nymphidae to be regarded as the 

 remains of the ancestral group from which the Myrmeleonidae have 

 sprung, the course of evolution being marked by gradual reduction in 

 the general density of venation, in the size and prominence of the 

 pterostigma and in the length of the antennae (which become stouter 

 and clavate) and by a change from a wandering (probably nocturnal), 

 carnivorous larva, with omnivorous tastes, to a sedentary, pit-dwelling, 

 ant-feeding form. R. J. TILLYARD. (Condensed from Proceedings, 

 Linn. Soc. Nciv South Wales, 1915, pt. 4, pp. 743, 745. 1916.) 



Knto mo logical Literature. 



COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR., AND J. A. G. REHN. 



Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En- 

 tomology of the Americas (North and South), including Arachnida and 

 Myriopoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; 

 but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, how- 

 ever, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. 



The numbers in Heavy -Faced Type refer to the journals, as numbered 

 in the following list, in which the papers are published. 



All continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their 

 first installments. 



The records of papers containing new species are all grouped at the 

 end of each Order of which they treat. Unless mentioned in the title, 

 the number of the new species occurring north of Mexico are given at 

 end of title, within brackets. 



For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, 

 Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied En- 

 tomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on Medical Ento- 

 mology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. 



4 The Canadian Entomologist. 5 Psyche. 9 The Entomol- 

 ogist, London. 10 Nature, London. 47 The Zoologist, London. 

 68 Science, New York. 102 Proceedings, Entomological Soci- 

 ety of Washington. 143 Ohio Journal of Science, Columbus, 

 Ohio. 153 Bulletin, American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York. 198 Biological Bulletin, Marine Biological Laboratory, 

 Woods Hole, Mass. 240 Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Orono. 251 Annales, Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Paris. 285 

 Nature Study Revue, Ithaca, N. Y. 313 Bulletin of Entomologi- 

 cal Research, London. 324 Journal of Animal Behavior, Cam- 

 bridge. 394 Parasitology, Cambridge, England. 421 Report, 

 State Entomologist on the Noxious and Beneficial Insects of Illi- 



