June, '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 2QI 



Entomological Literature. 



STUDIES IN NORTH AMERICAN MEMBRACID^E. By Edward P. Van Duzec. 

 This paper was published in the Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of 

 Natural Sciences Vol. ix, pp. 29-129., issued April iSth, 1908. The 

 author gives the results of a systematic study of all the membracids 

 in his own collection and of material obtained from correspondents. 

 Synoptical tables of the subfamilies, genera and species are given, and 

 also outline figures of many species. At the end of the paper is a list 

 which includes all the species known to exist north of the Southern 

 boundary of the United States. The paper is a very valuable contribu- 

 tion to the subject. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE HAWAIIAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, i part 5. 



This gives an account of the meetings with notes and exhibitions, and 

 also contains the address of the President and a paper by G. W. 

 Kirkaldy, entitled "A List of the Described Hemiptera (excluding 

 Aleyrodidae and Coccidse) of the Hawaiian Islands." 



A REVISION OF THE TENEBRIONID SUBFAMILY CONIONTIN.^. By 

 Thomas L. Casey. Proceeedings of the Washington Academy of 

 Sciences; Vol. x, pp. 51-166. 

 The Tenebrionid genera, Eusattus, C onion f is, Coclus, Branchus and 



Praocis and others, are considered, and new genera and many new 



species are described in this paper. 



DIRECTORY OF JESUIT NATURALISTS. 



Frederick A. Hillig, S. J., has compiled and published a pamphlet of 

 34 pages under this title in No. 4 of Vol. IT. of St. John's College 

 Quarterly, St. John's University, Toledo, Ohio, April, 1908. The 

 names (arranged alphabetically), addresses, specialties in natural 

 history, desiderata and oblata of 108 members of the Society of Jesus 

 throughout the world are given, followed by indices arranged accord- 

 ing to specialties and to countries of residence. 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 



OP THE GLOBE. 



THE EGGS OF INSECTS OF THE LAKES OF CHALCO AND TEXCOCO, IN THE 

 VICINITY OF MEXICO CITY AND THE FORMATION OF OOLITHS. M. L. 

 Cayeux has a brief article on this subject in a publication not likely to 

 be consulted by many entomologists the recently issued Compte Rendu 

 of the loth Session of the International Geological Congress, held in 



