— 148— 



Mr. D. W. Coquillet has monographed the Lomatina of North 



America of the Bombylidae, consisting of four genera, indicating one as 

 new, and describing five new species (Can. Ent., xviii, p. 81). 



COLEOPTERA. — Dr. G. H. Horn has continued to lay us 

 under obligations for his valuable contributions to Coleopterology, in 

 descriptive, classificatorv, bibliographical and critical papers, in the pages 

 of the Transaction of the American Entomological Society, the Canadian 

 Entomologist, and Entomologica Americana. Their titles are too num- 

 erous to permit their citation in the present paper. 



Lieut. Casey has published New Genera and Species of Calif ornian 

 Coleoptera [Extra Bulletin, California Academy of Science, vol. 1], and 

 a Revision of the Californian Species of Lithocharis [Bull., No. 5, Id.]. 



Mr. Frederick Blanchard has given a careful paper On the species of 

 Canthon and Phanaeus of the United States, with synoptic tables of spe- 

 cies, bibliography, and notes on some other genera [Trans Amer. Ent. 

 Soc, xii, pp. 163 — 172]. 



Mr. Charles W. Leng, is contributing to Entomologica Americana, 

 Synopses of Cerambycidae, accompanied with illustrations [vol. I, pp. 

 2S— 35, 130—136; II, p. 27-32,60—63, 81—83, 102—103]. 



Other contributions to the order, which have come under my notice, 

 are from Messrs. F. B. Caul field. F. Clarkson, John Hamilton, S. Hen- 

 shaw, A. W. Jones, Warren Knaus, C. W. Leng, A. L. Packard, E. A. 

 Schwarz, J. B. Smith and C. W. Strumberg. 



In Entomologica Americana for July and August 1886 is a Record 

 of some Contributions to the Literature of North American Beetles published 

 in 1885, by Samuel Henshaw, which will be found very convenient for 

 reference, and for which its compiler is entitled to sincere thanks. 



The most generally acceptable contribution to this order made dur- 

 ing the year, has been the List of the Coleoptera of North America. North 

 of Mexico, by Samuel Henshaw, in which we are given the recent classi- 

 fication of Drs. Leconte and Horn, the large number of species describ- 

 ed during the preceding twelve years, together with many important 

 synonymical corrections. Annual supplements to the List are promised 

 by the author. The labor involved in the preparation of a work of this 

 nature, is so great, that each successive contribution of the kind, if as 

 meritorious as the one under notice, marks an epoch in the literature of 

 the order. 



In the HEMLPTERA we have had the gratification of having 

 placed in our hands, our first Check-List. It presents a classification 

 which has been so long needed by the student, of the Heteroptera. and 

 the names of 1448 species. A debt of gratitude is due to Mr. Uhler for 



