1898.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



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vol. i, 1769-1771, there is a paper entitled, "Observations concerning the 

 Fly-Weevil, tnat destroys the Wheat; with some useful Discovei 

 Conclusions, concerning the propagation and progress of that pi-mi. 

 Insect, and the Methods to be used for Preventing the destruction ot 

 Grain by it. By Colonel Landon Carter, of Sabine Hall, Virginia, com- 

 municated by Colonel Lee, of Virginia." Pp. 208-217. Following this 

 paper is a report on the "Same Subject, by the Committee on 1 1 usbandry. 

 Pp. 218-224. Pages 224-230 are taken up with observations on the native 

 Silk Worms of North America, by Moses Bartram, which was read before 

 the Society March 11, 1768. A letter of economic interest is printed on 

 page 243, and is entitled, "Extract of a Letter from Mr. Peter Miller, of 

 Ephratah, to Mr. Charles Thomson, on the time of sowing pease, so as 

 to preserve the Crop from being Worm-eaten." A second edition of this 

 volume is dated 1789. Volume II of the same publication, dated i;S6, 

 contains one article relating to entomology; it is entitled, "The wl 

 Process of the Silk-Worm, from the Egg to the Coc>>n (sic), communica- 

 ted to Dr. John Morgan, Physician at Philadelphia, in two Letters from 

 Messrs. Hare and Skinner, Silk Merchants in London, July 27, 1774, and 

 February 24, 1775." Pp. 347-366 In 1799, Benjamin Smith Ikirton, M.l >.. 

 published his " Fragments of the Natural History of Pennsylvania." 

 Of this work but one part seems to have been issued ; this is devoted 

 primarily to the birds of Pennsylvania, but there are also observations on 

 other animals. The concluding pages contain some notes on noxious 

 insects. It is of interest to know that all these papers were published in 

 Philadelphia. WILLIAM]. Fox. 



Entomological Literature. 



Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the Ac. 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Knt<>nn>]i>i;y of the Amerk. 

 and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology, unless monographs, 01 

 taming descriptions of new genera, will not be noted. Contributions to the anat 

 physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American 

 species, will be recorded. The numbers in lit-av\-l';i<--il lypi- refer to the journa 

 numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published; 'denotes that the 

 paper in question contains descriptions of new North American forms. 



4. The Canadian Entomologist, London, Out., Jan., '98 it. I'syrhe, 

 Cambridge, Mass., Jan., '98. (5. Journal of the New York Iuitomoln-ii-.il 

 Society, December, '97. 8. The Entomologist's Monthly M.ig.i/ine, 

 London, Jan., '98. 9. The Entomologist, London, Jan., 'i>s . 11. The 

 Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London, I 1 7. 12. 



Comptes Rendus. L' Academic des Sciences. I'aris, '97. 1:>. Comptes 

 Rendus. Societe de Biologie, Paris, '97.- !">. Biologia Centrali V 

 icana, part cxxxviii. London, Nov., '97. 22. /.oologiM-her Ai 

 Leipsic, Dec. 13, '97. 25. Bolletino dei MUM-I di Zoologia ed An.itoini. 

 Comparata d. R. Universita di Torino, 1*1,7. --.'$<. Transactions of t'n- 



