480 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, 



Id. Diphyletism in the Lepidoptera, 9. Heath, E. F. Notes on 

 captures of Lepidoptera, 4. Hulst, G D. Some new species of Geo- 

 metridae,* 4. Janichen, R. The slimy dampness of the larval body 

 before going into the pupal condition, 84, Mar. 8 Kolller, F. The 

 scent-scales of the genus Lyccena examined as regards their phylogeny, 

 3 pis , 89, Heft 2. Lymaii, H. H. Notes on a few butterflies from the 

 Yukon, 4. Melntosh, W. The butterflies of New Brunswick, The 

 Noctuidae of New Brunswick, Bulletin Natural History Society of New 

 Brunswick, xviii, St. John, 1899. Rec'd April 9, 1900. Mercer, W, F. 

 The development of the wings in the Lepidoptera, 5 pis., 6. Moffat, 

 J. A. The wing structure of a butterfly, i pi., 75. Schllltz, O. See 

 the General Subject. Snyder, A. J. The Argynnids of North 

 America, 127 --Soper, G. A. The capture of butterflies by birds, 

 Nature, London, Mar. 22, 1900. Spengel, J. W. Papilio asterias 

 aberr. Ca/verleyi, a supplementary remark, 89, Heft 2 Staudiiig'er, 

 O. A new Heliconius form, 45, Lep. Heft. Strecker, H. Lepidop- 

 tera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, Indigenous and Exotic. Supple- 

 ment No. 3. Reading, Pa., U. S. A., 1900. Printed for the Author.* 

 Pp. 15-37, containing a list of types in the author's collection. Swain- 

 soii, E. M. Notes on larvae of [Jamaican] Lepidoptera, 6. Tutt, J. 

 W. Migration and dispersal of insects : Lepidoptera, 21. Webster, 

 F. M. Some notes tin the larval habits of the gray hair-streak butterfly 

 Uranotes melinns Hubn.), 75. Weed, C. M. See Economic Ento- 

 mology. Wright, AV. G. Anthocharis flora, 4. 



HYMENOPTERA. Bethime, C. J. S. Some observations on 

 a bumble-bees' nest, 75. Chapman, F. The hexagonal structure 

 formed in cooling beeswax in relation to the cells of bees, 11. Coupin, 

 H. The Chalcidomas, fig., 79, Mar. 10 - Dyar, H. G. On the larvae 

 of Atomacera and some other sawflies,* 6. Friese, H, New exotic 

 parasitic bees, 41 Hervey, E. W. Honey Guides, Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, London, Mar. 31, 1900 Robertson, C. Some Illinois 

 bees,* Transactions, Academy of Science of St. Louis, x, 2, Feb. 21, 1900. 

 Wasnianii, E. J. The guests of ants and termites [transl.], i pi , 

 21 ; See also Coleoptera. 



Scudder, S. H. Catalogue of the Described Orthoptera 

 of the United States and Canada. Reprinted from Vol. viii, 

 Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences. 1900. 

 101 pp., 3 pis. 



A very important and most useful, synonymic and bibliographical 

 catalogue, followed by an appendix of descriptions of eleven new species 

 belonging to genera new to the United States. These are illustrated in 

 the plates. The catalogue "contains the names of 856 species, divided 

 among the families as follows : Forficulidae, 14 ; Blattido?, 32 ; Mantidae, 

 17 ; Phasmidae, n ; Acrididae, 524 ; Locustidae, 194 ; Gryllidae, 64." The 

 first three and a half pages, from which this extract is taken, contain a 



