1890.] Address. 115 



Mons. J. B. Gehin's '' Catalogue synonomique et systematique des 

 Coleopteres de la tribu des Carahides," with plates by Ch. Haury, may 

 be noticed, but it contains few Oriental species. 



As already noticed, the third volume of de Niceville's " Butterflies 

 of India, Burma and Ceylon " has been published. It deals with the 

 LyccenidoB and appears to be almost entirely the work of Mr. de Nice- 

 ville himself. It consists of over 500 pages of closely printed matter 

 in small type, and is illustrated by six plates, of which two are coloured. 

 The work represents an immense amount of painstaking labour and 

 will be a welcome aid to Indian entomologists. A fourth volume, 

 dealing with the Papilionidce, is under preparation. 



Part VII of " Illustrations of Typical specimens of Lepidoptera 

 Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum," by Mr. A. G. 

 Butler, contains an account of a collection of Macro -LejDidoptera Hetei-o- 

 cera made in the district of Kangra by the Rev. J. H. Hocking. The 

 number of species amounts to upwards of 780, and a nominal list is given 

 of them, as well as descriptions of new species. The work is illustrated 

 with 18 coloured plates. 



The fifth volume of " Memoires sur les Lepidopteres," edited by 

 N". M. RomanofE, has been published and contains a complete enumera- 

 tion and descriptions, by S. Alpheraky, of the 27 species of Lepidoptera 

 found in Tibet by Prjevalsky, in 1884-85, and of the Noctuelites of the 

 Pamir, of which 150 are enumerated. 



Economic Entomology. — The good progress of the systematic inves- 

 tigation of Indian insect-pests by Mr. E. C. Cotes, under the direction 

 of the Trustees of the Indian Museum, and the esiablishment of the new 

 *^ Indian Museum Notes, '^ have sdresidy been noticed. Two numbers of 

 the Notes have been published. No. 1, " Notes on Indian Insect Pests " 

 contains papers by Mr. E. T. Atkinson, on Bhyncliota, including the Rice- 

 sapper; " chora poka," the larvae of insects inieshing 8esa7num, irom 

 Balasore ; Greenbug ; Gapsidoe ; Jassidm ; Aphidae and Goccidce. Mr. 

 De Niceville contributes papers on a butterfly injurious to rice and on a 

 Ceylon Cardamom-pest. Mr. Cotes gives notes on a variety of pests 

 borers and moths, and on insecticides. No. 2, contains a previously un- 

 published paper, by the late Dr, E. Becher, on Trycolyga bombycis and 

 Chalcis criculce, also several notes by Mr. Cotes on the Bengal silk-worm 

 fly, Sal girder beetle, opium cut worm, coffee- scale and other pests. Mr. 

 E. T. Atkinson contributes further notes on Ehynchota. 



The Keiv Bulletin, for 1889, contains a note on Beetles destructive 

 to rice-crops in Burma. 



The Indian Forester contains an accoixnt of the experiments in Silk- 

 rearing conducted at Berhampur under Mr. Nitya Gopal Mukharii 



