134 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March, '13 



for 1911 (tome cliii),has compared the water-containing epiphytic bro- 

 meliads to a great fragmented swamp or marsh extending throughout 

 intertropical America and discusses their biological characteristics in gen- 

 eral. Mr. Hugh Scott, curator in Entomology in the University of 

 Cambridge, has given an account, in the Annals and Magazine of Na- 

 tural History for October, 1912, of bromeliadicolous insects of the isl- 

 ands of Trinidad and Dominica, which he collected in March, 1912. 

 Mr. G. C. Champion, of the Biologia, has re-examined some of the 

 bromeliadicolous Coleoptera of Costa Rica collected by Calvert and 

 studied material received from Sefior Picado, finding that 12 families 

 are represented by those hitherto and now recorded (Entoni. Mo. Mag.. 

 January, 1913). Additional Orthoptera (a Blattid described by Shel- 

 ford in Mr. Scott's paper) and Hemiptera (a Microvelia, by Distant in 

 the same, and a Lygaeid by Mr. Champion), are also made known as 

 members of this fauna. 



Still more recently Senor Picado has described (Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 P>ance, XXXVII, No. 10. Jan. 31, 1913) a new species of Scirtes. 

 S. championi, and its larva, which he reared from among the leaves 

 of Costa Rican bromeliads. This insect is a member of the Coleop- 

 terous family Dascillidae. 



Entomological 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, and are all 

 dated the current year unless otherwise noted, always excepting those 

 appearing in the January and February issues, which are generally dated 

 the year previous. 



The records of systematic papers are all grouped at the end of each 

 Order of which they treat, and are separated from the rest by a dash. 



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

 Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. 



4 The Canadian Entomologist. 7 U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, Bureau of Entomology. 9 The Entomologist, London. 

 11 Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London. 13 Comp- 

 tes Rendus, Societe de Biologic, Paris. 14 Proceedings, Zoologi- 

 cal Society of London. 22 Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipzig. 38 

 Wiener Entomologische Zeitung. 50 Proceedings, U. S. National 

 Museum. 51 Novitates Zoologicae, Tring, England. 69 Bolle- 

 tino, Societa Italiana Entomologica. 76 Journal, Cincinnati Soci- 

 ety of Natural History. 84 Entomologische Rundschau. 89 Zoo- 



