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leridae from various parts of the world. We call attention the more par- 

 ticularly to this publication as it is published privately, and so can not, 

 save by a chance, be obtained, and because ni it are described two North 

 American genera and species, viz: Diviana eudoriella and Calera puncti- 

 JimbeUa. Mr. Ragonot also proposes a substitute for one of his American 

 generic names previously described but preoccupied, viz : Dolichorrhijiia 

 instead of Macrorrhinia. Mr. Grote has already proposed Ragonotia 

 instead of Ciris. 



We cair attention to one other thing which is justly exasperating to 

 the American student, viz : the carelessness of our European co-workers 

 in the giving of localities. Diviana eudoriella has its locality given as 

 "Amerique Sept," It does seem that no longer ought any European to 

 look upon North America as corresponding geographically with France, 

 England or Palestine. Staudinger includes in the European Fauna, 

 Europe proper, N. Africa, Northern, Central and South-western Asia, as 

 well as the Amur country. How delightful it would be to have a de- 

 scriber give the locality of insects, one from N. Africa, one from England, 

 one from Greece, one from Amur, each and all as '"Europe." Yet this 

 is an exact parallel to the giving of " North America'' as the locality of 

 insects from Greenland, Alaska, Florida and California, as the chance 

 may be. We speak of this just now using Mr. Ragonot's work as a text, 

 but it is an evil which has long existed, and among the best European 

 Entomologists, but it is an evil which ought not to exist any longer. 

 With some writers the evil is increased as North America is taken not in 

 the faunal but in the geographical sense, and species from Mexico, the 

 West Indies and Guatemala are included under the term "North America." 

 Indeed, Mr. Ragonot himself in his "Diagnoses on N. American Phyci- 

 tidce and Galleridx " describes 2 species from the West Indies, and 2 from 

 Mexico. It is therefore possible that from the faunal standpoint Diviana 

 eudoriella is not North American. 



Books and Pamphlets received during May 1888. 



Proc. Acad, of Nat. Sciences Phila, Part i, 'SS. 



Proc. Amer. Phil. Society, No. 127. 



Prairie Farmer, May, '88. 



Societas Entomologica, Part i, April, '88. 



Am. Monthly Microscopical Journal, April, '88. 



Report of Statitician U. S. Dep't of Agric, new series, No. 50. 



Canadian Entomologist, \'ol. XX, No. 5. 



Notes on Lachnosterna, by Dr. Geo. H. Horn. 



Psyche, Vol. V, No. 145. 



Natura2 novitates, Nos. 9 and 10. 



Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Belgium, April and May, '88. 



Some Pests of the Pomologist, by Prot. J. A. Lintner. 



