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ince of Quebec, 18, xxviii, 113-16. Walton, W. R. Report on 

 some parasitic and predaceous D. from northeastern New Mexico. 

 [3 new species, 2 new genera], 50, xlviii, 171-86. 



COLEOPTERA. Boving, A. Notes on the larva of Hydros- 

 capha and some other aquatic larvae from Arizona, 102, xvi, 169-74. 

 Browne, F. B. The life-history of a water-beetle, 494, xx, 754-64. 

 Duporte, E. M. The wavy striped flea-beetle. (Phyllotreta sin- 

 uata), 4, 1914, 433-5. Palmer, M. A. Some notes on life history 

 of lady-beetles, 180, vii, 213-38. 



Hopkins, A. D. List of generic names and their type-species 

 in the coleopterous superfamily Scolytoidea, 50, xlviii, 115-36. 

 Schwarz, E. A. Aquatic beetles, especially Hydroscapha, in hot 

 springs in Arizona, 102, xvi, 163-8. Schwarz & Barber Note on 

 Rhipidandri a correction, 102, xvi, 175-77. Wickham, H. F. New 

 Miocene C. from Florissant, [many new], 195, Iviii, 423-94. 



HYMENOPTERA. Tower, D. G. Note on the number of 

 spiracles in mature chalcid larvae, 180, vii, 248-9. 



Cockerell, T. D. A. Bees visiting Helianthus [2 new species], 

 4, 1914, 409-16. Gahan, A. B. Descriptions of n. gen. and sps., 

 with notes on parasitic H. [12 new species, 2 new genera], 50, 

 xlviii, 155-168. A new sp. of Cheiloneurus with a key to the 

 described species from the U. S. [C. amplicornis n. sp.], 180, vii, 

 247-8. Marcovitch, S. A species of Megastigmus reared from 

 larch seeds. [M. larias n. sp.], 4, 1914, 435-8. 



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