314 Reierate. 
Rothschild, Walter, and Karl Jordan. ARevision ofthe American 
Papilios. — Novit. zool., Vol. 13, 1906, p. 411—745, t. 4—9. 
Der allgemeine Teil bringt zunächst eine sehr eingehende Besprechung 
der Literatur, besonders der alten, ferner Erörterungen nomenklatorischer Fragen 
sowie zweifelhafter Fälle bei der Entscheidung über Priorität alter gleichnamiger 
Arten. Im systematischen Teil werden unter Verzicht auf eine Aufteilung in 
Gattungen oder Untergattungen nach Flügel-Form und -Zeichnung sowie nach 
morphologischen Merkmalen und Lebensweise der Raupen 3 Sektionen unter- 
schieden, die wieder in zahlreiche, nach den typischen Arten benannte Unter- 
gruppen zerfallen. Den Beschreibungen der Arten und Unterarten sind sehr aus- 
führliche Angaben über Literatur, Synonymie und Verbreitung beigefügt. Die 
Uebersicht wird durch die beigegebenen Bestimmungstabellen sehr erleichtert. — Gr. 
Australian Entomological Literature in 1909. 
By W. J. Rainbow. Sydney. 
W. W. Froggatt, F.L.S.: Official Report on Fruit Fly and Other Pests 
in Various Countries. Published as a Separate Work by the Minister for Agri- 
culture (New South Wales). The Report contains 115 pages and eight plates, 
and is divided into three parts. Part I— General Report deals with: (1) The 
Commercial Value of Introduced Parasites to deal with Insects that are Pests; 
(2) The Range and Spread of Fruit Flies and the Methods Adopted in Other 
Countries to Check Them; (3) The Value of Parasites in Exterminating Fruit- 
Flies; (4) Habits of Cosmopolitan Insect Pests. Part II — Notes on Parasites or 
Insects that have been introduced from Foreign Countries to Check or Extermi- 
nate Injurious Inseets. This part deals with parasites, and their value and limi- 
tations in controlling injurious insects of the garden and orchard. Part II — 
Fruit Flies. In this part we have a general account of the flies belonging to the 
family Trypetidae, that damage sound fruit, with descriptions of the different 
species (of which some are new to science, and are now described for the first 
time), and their habits, range and suggestions for destroying them. There is 
also a list of Walker’s species (with references and localities) of the genus Dacus, 
together with a list of other species of the same genus by other authors from a 
wide range of localities, and which were not represented in any of the collections 
inspected during the author’s tour. 
C. French, senr., F.L.S., F.E.S.: Handbook to the Destructive Insects 
of Victoria. Melbourne, 1909, pp. 195. 20 coloured plates. Contains brief des- 
criptions and details of life-histories of a number oi destructive insects common 
to Victoria; also popular descriptions and illustrations of Insectivorous Birds, and 
reprints of the Vegetation Diseases Acts. 
C. French, junr.: The Tomato Weevil. Journ. Dept. Agric. Vict., VII., part 
10, 1909, p. 642, plate. 
C. French, junr.: A New Fruit Pests. Tomato Moth. Heliothis armigera, 
Hübn. Journal Dept. Agriculture of Victoria, Vol. VIl., Part 1, January, 1910, 
pp. 50—52, and plate showing plums damaged by larvas of this insect. 
W.W. Froggatt: Plant Bug Pests. Agric. Gaz. N. S. Wales, Vol. XXlI., 
Part II, February, 1910, p. 151. Deals with certain Hemiptera destructive to 
economic plants, and how to combat them. The species named are: Nysius 
vinitor, Dietyotus plebejus, Peltophora pedicellata, and Stilida indecora. 
H. J. Carter, B. A. F. E. S.: Notes on Australian Coleoptera: with 
descriptions of New Species of Tenebrionidae. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 
XXXIV, Part 1, 1909, pp. 120—156. This paper contains notes made during a 
visit to Europe, especially to the Museums of Brussels, Paris, London and Ox- 
ford. The notes refer to three families — Duprestidae, Tenebrionidae, and very 
brieily, Cerambyeidae. About twenty new species of Tenebrionidae are described, 
some of which are illustrated by figures in the text. 
Rev. Thos. Blackburn, B. A.: Further Notes on Australian Coleo- 
ptera, with descriptions of New Genera and Species. No. XXXIX. Ib. Vol. XXXII, 
1909, p. 18. This paper deals with and tabulates species of the genus Heteronyw, 
and describes a number of new forms; it also contains notes on species of the 
genus Diphucephala, Saulostomus, Pseudoryetes, and Omeurystypus. 
J. © Goudie: Notes on the Coleoptera of North Western Victoria. Partl. 
Viet. Naturalist, XXVI, No. 4, 1909, pp. 39—47. i 
T. G. Sloane: Second Supplement to the Revision of the (icindelidae of 
Australia. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, XXXIV, Part 2, 1909, p. 296—301. 
