1898.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 22Q 



Hymeiioptera. Ash mead, W. H. Classification of the horn- 

 tails and sawflies or the suborder Phytophaga, v, 4. B eutenmiiller, 

 W. Note on the nest of Vespa crabro, 2 pis., 6. C oc k er el 1 , T. D. 

 A. The North American bees of the genus Prosapis (cont.), 9; See 

 Orthoptera.* Duf ou r , L. Bees and honeys, figs., 79, Sept. 10. 

 Dunning, S. N. Notes on Andrena* 4. Escherich, K. See 

 Coleoptera. Frey-Gessn er , E. Fauna insectorum helvetiae. Hy- 

 meiioptera (cont.). Fam. xvi, Apidas, 56. Head ley, F. W. Bees 

 and the development of Mowers, Natural Science, London, Oct., '98. 

 K a r a vv a i e w , W. The postembryonal development of Lasius flavus, 

 figs., 4 pis. Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Zoologie, Ixiv, 3, Leipsic. 

 Aug. 30, '98. Kiaer, H. Review of the phytophagous Hymenoptera 

 of arctic Norway, i pi., Tromso Museums Aarshefte 19, '98. Konow, 

 F. \V. New Contribution to the synonymy of the Chalastogastra ; On the 

 Tenthredinid tribe Lophyrini* (two papers), Entomologische Nachrich- 

 ten, xxiv, 15-16. Berlin, Aug., '98; On the Tenthredinid genus Amasis 

 Leach, 38 ; Synonymic and critical remarks on Tenthredinid species 

 incorrectly, or not hitherto referred, 4O ; Analytical table for identifying 

 the hitherto described larvae of the Hymenopterous suborder Chalasto- 

 gastra, 92, 16, 17. Stoll, O. To knowledge of the geographical dis- 

 tribution of ants, 56. \Va s m a n n , E. See the General Subject. 



Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, Indigenous and Exotic. 

 Supplement No. i. By Herman Strecker, Reading, Pa., U. S. A. 

 Printed for the author. 



This contains the descriptions of fifty new moths and one new butterfly. 

 Next to the scientific interest of the paper we always look to Dr. Strecker 

 for something racy in his remarks, and in the one page of preface we have 

 this as in the days of yore. He was disappointed in an intended plate of 

 the specimens and acknowledges he has joined the big band of sinners, 

 dead and alive, who have published descriptions alone. If the gentle- 

 man had made a good photographic negative, and from this a slightly 

 underprinted bromide enlargement, and then retouched with india ink. 

 and afterward reduced in the half-tone to natural size again, the result 

 would have been excellent. No one would be more competent to do the 

 slight retouching necessary than the author of this paper. H. S. 



Doings of Societies. 



A meeting of Feldman Collecting Social was held September 

 21. 1898. 



Mr. Johnson exhibited a specimen of a species of Eriocera 

 in which the discal cell is absent from one wing. A specimen of 

 E. spinosus showed an accessory discal cell in one wing. Lon- 

 gurio testaceiis was shown from Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. 



In reply to Prof. Smith, Mr. Johnson said pinning is probably 



