Vol. XXVlii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 475 



COLEOPTERA. Achard, J. Descriptions de deux Chrysome- 

 lides nouveaux de 1'Amerique du Sud, 87, 1917, 230-1. Chagnon, G. 

 A preliminary list of the insects of the Province of Quebec, III. 

 Coleoptera (Suppl. Kept. Quebec Soc. Protect. Plants), 161-277. 

 Champion, G. C. A new barid from a Costa Rican bromeliad, 8, 

 1917, 223-4. Nicolay, A. S. Buprestidae and Cerambycidae from 

 Maine, 411, xii, 92-5. Notman, H. Coleoptera illustrata, Vol. 1, No. 

 3, Carabidae, 50 pis. Shelford, V. E. Color and color-pattern 

 mechanism of tiger beetles, 546, iii, No. 4, 134 pp. Tower, W. L. 

 Inheritable modification of the water relation in hibernation of 

 Leptinotarsa decem-lineata, 198, xxxiii, 229-57. 



Chapin, E. A. Studies in the Hydnocerini. The hydnoceroid 

 genera [2 n. g. 1 n. sp.], 411, xii, 83-5. Fall, H. C. New Coleop- 

 tera. VII [7 new], 4, 1917, 385-91. Schaeffer, C. On some new and 

 known Melandryidae [4 new], 4, 1917, 357-60. 



HYMENOPTERA. Berlese, A. Aspidiotiphagus How. e Pros- 

 paltella Ashm., 169, xii, 1-13. Bray, H. List of bees from Clare- 

 mont, Laguna region, 189, ix, 93-100. Cockerell, T. D. A. De- 

 scriptions and records of bees, LXXVI-LXXVII, 11, xx, 235-41, 

 298-304. Frohawk, F. W. Destruction of wheat by wasps, 9, 1917, 

 132-3. Girault, A. A. A new West Indian chalcid-fly, 4, 1917, 356-7. 

 Malenotti, E. Sopra un caso di endofagia dell' "Aspidiotiphagus 

 citrinus" sul "Chrysomphalus dictyospermi," 169, xii, 15-18. Water- 

 son, J. A n. sp. of Paraphelinus, from Br. Guiana, with a dis- 

 cussion of the genus and the allied Aphelinus, 313, viii, 43-58. 



Beutenmuller, W. Descriptions of new Cynipidae [5 new], 4, 

 1917, 345-9. Girault, A. A. Descriptiones hymenopterorum chal- 

 cidoidicorum cum observationibus [2 new], 9, 1917, 36-8. Three 

 new chalcid flies from N. America. New chalcid flies, with notes 

 [10 new], 411, xii, 85-89. Malloch, J. R. Three n. sps. of the new 

 genus Andrena from the U. S., 411, xii, 89-92. 



THE BIOLOGY OF DRAGONFLIES (ODONATA OR PARANEUROPTERA) by R. 

 J. TILI.YARD, M. A. (Cantab.) B. Sc. (Sydney), Macleay Fel- 

 low in Zoology to the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 

 Cambridge [England] : at the University Press 1917. New 

 York representatives : G. P. Putnam's Sons. Svo, pp. xii, 306, 

 4 pis. (2 colored). 188 text figs. Price 15 shillings net. (Cam- 

 bridge Zoological Series, General Editor: Arthur E. Shipley. 

 Sc.D., F.R.S., Master of Christ's College, Cambridge). 

 This volume whose appearance was alluded to in the NEWS for 

 October, page 353, contains the most complete general account of 

 the Odonata ever published. Many of its contents are very sugges- 

 tive and a much longer time must elapse before they can be properly 



