42 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February, 



ZOOLOGICAL RECORD. 



The amount of entomological work recorded in the present 

 volume is apparently greater than that of any previous year, the 

 titles numbering 1173 against 1069 last year. We have, however, 

 to record but little extensive systematic work on any group of 

 Insects. Handlirsch's monograph of the Hymenopterous genus 

 Bembex being, perhaps, the most important work dealing with 

 Insects of all the world. Brauer and Bergenstamm's tables of 

 some Calyptrate Muscidae have been completed. A large num- 

 ber of new species have been described in faunistic works ; God- 

 man and Salvin's great work on Central America continues to 

 occupy a predominant position in this respect. Berthoumien has 

 commenced a work on the Ichneumonidae of Europe, a subject 

 that has been treated hitherto in a very piece-meal style. Three 

 volumes of Dalla Torre's Catalogue of Hymenoptera have ap- 

 peared ; as well as a second volume of the general Catalogue of 

 Hemiptera. We are glad to find that M. Severin announces his 

 intention of continuing this work, notwithstanding the lamented 

 decease of his co-laborer, M. Lethierry. A great deal of work 

 has been expended on Hamilton's Catalogue of the Coleoptera 

 common to Europe, Northern Asia and North America; it is 

 accompanied by tables intended to elucidate the origin of these 

 widely distributed forms, and will be of considerable assistance 

 to those studying geographical distribution in the region it deals 

 with. Leech's work on the butterflies of China and Japan has 

 been completed. 



The series of papers by Fox, Uhler, Ashmead, Pergande and 

 Horn that of the latter being a memoir of considerable extent 

 makes a very large addition to our knowledge of the Ento- 

 mology of Lower California, a region that has been heretofore 

 much neglected by entomologists, though of considerable impor- 

 tance. The series of faunistic papers resulting from the work 

 of the W. India Committee has received a remarkable addition 

 in the memoir of Riley, Ashmead and Howard, in which no less 

 than 340 species of parasitic Hymenoptera are recorded from the 

 island of St. Vincent. Large as it may appear, this is far from 

 being the total number to be found there, as certain of the sub- 

 families still remain to be worked out. It is remarkable that only 

 6 new genera have been proposed, although 299 new species are 



