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Cockerell, T. D. A. Descriptions and records of bees. LVII. 

 (Table to some species' of Tetralonia), 11, xiii, 272-286. Bees vis- 

 iting Thurberia, 102, xvi, 31-2. Crawford, J. C. Two new parasitic 

 H. from Arizona, 102, xvi, 29. Emery, C. Cephalotes et Crypto- 

 cerus. Le type du genre Cremaloaster, 35, Iviii, 37-9. Girault, A. 

 A. Hosts of insect eggparasites in Europe, Asia, Africa and Aus- 

 tralasia, with a supplementary American list, 92, x, 87-91 (cont.), 

 MacGillivray, A. D. New genera and sp. of Tenthredinidae, 4, 

 1914, 103-108 (cont.). Newell, W. A natural enemy of the Argen- 

 tine ant, 179, vii, 147. Ruzsky, M. Myrmekologische notizen, 119, 

 1913, A, 9, 58-63. 



GENERA INSECTORUM, diriges par P. Wytsman. This excellent work 

 is indispensable to the thorough systematist. The first part, or fasci- 

 cule, appeared in 1902, and as will be observed by the following list 

 of recent issues, 153 parts have already been published. Each part 

 treats of a separate family or subfamily and is by a competent au- 

 thority. 



We take this opportunity to call our subscribers' attention to the 

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 Hemiptera : Pentatomidae, subf am. Dinidorinae, by H. Schouteden, 

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 Fasc. 148, 58 pp., 3 pis., 22.80 f r. Coleoptera : Carabidae, subfam. 

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 subfam. Aegiajiinae, Chironinae, Dynamopinae, Hyposorinae, Idiosto- 

 minae, Ochodaeinae, Orphninae, by A. Schmidt, Fasc. 150, 87 pp., 

 3 pis., 26.40 fr. Hymenoptera : Chrysididae, by H. Bischoff, Fasc. 151, 

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EVOLUTION OF THE COLOR PATTERN IN THE MICROLEPIDOPTEROUS GENUS 

 LITHOCOLLETIS. By Annette Frances Braun. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., 

 Phila. (2), xvi, pp. 105-168. 26 text figs. Pis. Ill and IV with 99 

 colored figures. Febr. 12, 1914. From a study of the development of 

 the pupal wings of eleven species of Lithocollctis and a comparison 

 of the color pattern in adults of 95 species of this genus and its imme- 

 diate allies, Porphyrosela and Cremastobombycia, Miss Braun (well 

 known to readers of American entomological journals for her work 

 on our Microlepidoptera) reaches the conclusion that "the primitive 

 color pattern is a series of seven uniformly colored pale, yellow trans- 



