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son. J. On L'ali:ii(i<i<t, the single genus of an aberrant sul>- 

 family of butterflies, 118. 



Hymenoptera. A 1 f k e n , J . I). The Xyloco/>a species of the 



Hawaiian Islands, not X (Kneipennis DeG , but X. chloroptera 



Lep., 41. -C a in e r o u , P . Description of a genus and species- 



probably representing a new tribe of Hymenoptera from Chili, 118^ 



C ockerell, T. D. A. The species of the bee genus Dieu- 



nomia* 9. F o r e 1 , A. Hymeuoptera. vol. iii, pp. 1-80, pis- 



i-iii.* [Formicidse, Myrmicidse] 15 ; Letter from Faisons [North 



( 'arolina, dated July 28, 1899, containing observations on ants], 35. 



Fox, W. J- Contributions to a knowledge of the Ilymenoptei-a 



of Brazil, No. 7: Eumenidae (genera Zelhtts, Labxx, Zelhoides, Eu- 



menes. Montezumia and Nortotifa) I. Kouow. F. W. New 



Tenth redinidje from South America, 41. Paulcke, W On 



the question of the part henogeuetic origin of the drones (Apfsmellf- 



fica male), h'gs.. Auatomischer Anzeiger, Jena. Oct. 5, '99. 



Plateau. F . See the General Subject. 



INSECTS. PART 11. Hymenoptera continued (Tubulifera and Acu- 

 leata). Coleoptera, Strepsiptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Aphaniptera, 

 Thysanoptera. Hemiutera, Auoplura. By David Sharp, London 7 

 Macmillan and Co. .Limited. New York : The Macmillau C o. 1899, 

 8vo, pp. xii. 026; 293 figs. Received from John Wauamaker. 



This, the sixth volume of the Cambridge Natural History, edited 

 by S. F. Harmer ami A. E. Shipley, concludes the account of the 

 insects begun in Vol. V. This latter, published in 1895, dealt with 

 Peripatus and the Myriapods by different authors, and devoted 483 

 pages to a general account of Insects and of the orders Aptera, 

 Orthoptera, Neuroptera (in the wide sense), and the Hymenoptera 

 Sessi live litres and Petiolata-Parasitica. 



Those who know Dr, Sharp's previous volume need only be told 

 that the present one is truly a continuation. By its completion we 

 have now an excellent series of modern books of reference, none of 

 which deals with precisely the same aspect of entomology, although 

 they must and do repeat many facts of primary importance. Thus 

 for a general sketch we have Carpenter's "Insects, their structure 

 and life," noticed in the November NEWS, for uu introduction to 

 taxonomy Comstock's "Manual ;" Packard's "Text Book of Ento- 

 mology " is a store house for anatomy and physiology: Smith's 

 'Economic Entomology' 1 presents the applied science; while 

 Sharp s "Insects'" deeply interests us by the prominence which is 

 given to habit&. 



Probably most persons will be puzzled, like ourselves, at the order 

 in which the different groups of insects are discussed by Dr. Sharp. 

 In a general way that order corresponds to increasing complexitx. 

 but the position of the Hymenoptera in particular seems abnormal. 



As our readers may be interested in having presented to them an 



