1910 THE REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Ill 



Wickham, of Iowa City, Iowa ; Mr. W. D. Kearfott, of Montclair, N.J. ; Mr. E. P. 

 Van Duzee, of Buffalo, N.Y. ; Mr. Wm. Beutennniller, of New York, N.Y. ; Dr. 

 Henry Skinner, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Dr. E. M. Walker, of Toronto, Ont.; Col. 

 Thos. L. Casey, of Washington, D.C.; Mr. Charles Leibeck, of Philadelphia, Pa., 

 and Rev. G. W. Taylor, of Departure Bay, B.C. 



LiTERATUEE. 



Among the publications which have been received during the year, and which 

 are of interest to Canadian students, mention may be made of the following ; — 



Back, Ernest A. The Robber-flies of America, North of Mexico, belonging 

 to the subfamilies, Leptogastrinse and Dasypogoninge. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 

 Numbers 2 and 3, April-September, 1909, pp. 137-400. In this splendid paper 194 

 species, and 36 genera are described; 20 species and 1 genus are new. Eleven 

 plates, illustrating a number of the species, appear at the end of the paper. Only 



12 species are recorded from Canada. Many others have doubtless been taken in 

 the Dominion, but these were not available for study by the author. The paper 

 is a welcome one and will be of much value to dipterists. 



Banks, Nathan. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects. Washing- 

 ton; Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin No. 67. This valuable bulletin was re- 

 ceived on Oct. 14, 1909. It takes the place of the work prepared in 1892, under 

 the direction of the late Dr. C. V. Riley. Many new features occur in this bulletin, 

 and a large number of notes are included which have been furnished by specialists 

 in the different Orders. 188 figures in the text appear, as against 139 in Riley's 

 publication. The Bulletin will be most useful as a means of reference. 



Beutenmuller, William. The Species of Holcaspis and their Galls (issued 

 17th Feb., 1909) ; The Species of Amphibolips and their Galls, (issued March 9, 

 1909) ; The North American Species of Diastrophus and their Galls, (issued March 

 19, 1909) : American Museum of Natural History, New York. These papers on 

 gall insects are most useful. The illustrations accompanying each are beautifully 

 drawn, and with the descriptions of the galls and the makers, afford an easy means 

 of identification. We hope to see more of these articles by this well-known author. 

 Many of the species included in the above papers occur in Canada. 



Blaisdell, Frank E., Sr. A Monographic Revision of the Coleoptera be- 

 longing to the Tenebrionid Tribe Eleodiini, inhabiting the United States, Lower 

 California and adjacent Islands. United States National Museum, Bulletin 63, 

 Washington, issued June 24, 1909. This important monograph of 524 pp. and 



13 plates, represents an enormous amount of work for which coleopterists generally 

 will be very grateful. 124 species and varieties are treated of, each at considerable 

 length. It is to be hoped that this bulletin will be freely used by Canadian cole- 

 opterists, so that we may soon know more about the beetles of this tribe occurring in 

 the Dominion. 



Hampson, Sir George F. (Bart). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae 

 in the British Museum; Vol. VII., pp. 709, plates cviii. to cxxii., received Feb. 

 8tli, 1909; Vol. VIII. , pp. 583, plates cxxiii. to cxxxvi., received Sept. 1st, 

 1909. These two volumes which appeared during the year are of great interest 

 to students of the lepidoptera. Vol. VII. is the first part of ''the classification of 

 the very large sub-family Acronyctince, which comprises some 3,000 species be- 

 longing to over 300 genera The sub-family is characterised by the 



trifid neuration of the hind wing combined with spineless tibiae and smooth eyes 

 not surrounded by bristle-like hair, and it is the least specialised of the sub- 



