RECENT LITERATURE. 
1. Three Related American Species of Alschna (Odonata)—. multi- 
color, Hag., 47. mutata, Hag., and 4, jalapensis, nov. sp. 
2. A New Dragonfly (Odonata) “belonging to the Corduline, and a 
Revision of the Classification of the Subfamily. (‘The new 
species is Platycordulia xanthosoma.| Both by KE. B. Wrurtam- 
son, ‘ Entomological News,’ June, July, and November, 1908. 
ProsaBuy the general notes embodied in these two papers will 
be of most interest to English readers. 
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The Annals of Scottish Natural History. Edinburgh. 1908. 
Nor a great amount of entomological matter appears this year, 
but some of the articles and notes are of importance. These are— 
Notes on Coleoptera of St. Kilda (T. H. Beare); do. : mainly from 
Birds’ Nests (N. H. Joy); Scottish Species of Oxyura® (Procto- 
trypidee), pt. ii. (P. Cameron); Lepidoptera of Hast Ross, &ec., and 
on Amblyptilus punctidactylus (D. Jackson) ; Insect Fauna of Isle of 
May (P. H. Grimshaw) ; Szrex noctilio (Sawfly) in Forth, Aleochara 
spadicea (Coleopteron) in Scotland, Quediws longicornis (Coleopteron), 
in Forth, and Bethylus cephalotes (Proctotrypidze) in Scotland (W. 
Evans) ; Death’s Head in Kircudbrightshire (R. Service) ; Palloptera 
ustulata in Edinburgh and Ceratophyllus borealis in Berwickshire 
(J. Waterston). Wo Jit 
Descriptions of Tertiary Insects. By T. D. A. Cockeretn. (From 
‘The American Journal of Science,’ vol. xxvi. pp. 69-75, July, 
1908.) 
THESE descriptions are illustrated by figures of three fossil dragon- 
flies—Lithagrion hyalinum, Scudder, Hnallagma florissantella, sp.nov., 
and Trichonemis aliena, Scudder. 
Some Results of the Florissant Expedition of 1908. By Professor 
T. D. A. CockERELL. (Reprinted from ‘ The American Natura- 
list,’ vol. xlii. pp. 569-81, September, 1908.) 
Some of the most interesting fossils found in 1908 in the Floris- 
sant beds are discussed and illustrated by photographs. Among 
these are a dragonfly (Phenacolestes parallelus, Ckll.), and two bees 
(Calyptapis florissantenis, Ckll., and Anthophora melfordi, Ckll.). 
The Agricultural Journal of India. Vol. iii., parts 1 and 2. Calcutta 
and London: Thacker & Spink and W. Thacker & Co. 1908. 
THE contents of part i. (January, 1908) comprises an article by 
H. Maxwell-Lefroy, M.A., the Imperial Entomologist, on ‘The To- 
bacco Stem Borer (Gnorimoschema heliopa, Low.).” This is accom- 
panied by an excellent coloured plate showing the insect in all 
stages. 
