148 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



EECENT LITERATURE. 



Catalogue of British Coleoptera. By T, Hudson Beare, B.Sc. F.R.S.E., 

 F.E.S., and H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 8vo. 

 Pp. 51. London : 0. E. Janson. 1904, 

 Appears to be a revised and extended edition of the Sharp-Fowler 

 Catalogue, published in 1893. The species are numbered consecutively 

 throughout, and with six mentioned in the addenda reach the respect- 

 able total of 3271. There are but few changes in the arrangement of 

 families, and generic and specific nomenclature remain pretty much as 

 they were. Lists of Introduced and of Doubtful Species are also given. 



New Zealand Nearoptera : a Popular Introdxiction to the Life-Histories 



and Habits of May-flies, Drafjonfiies, Caddis-flies and allied Insects 



inhabiting New Zealand: includinq Notes on their Relation to Angling. 



With eleven Coloured Plates. By G. V. Hudson, F.E.S. Bvo. 



Pp. i-viii and 1-102. London : West, Newman & Co. 1904. 



In this admirable little volume the author has entered pretty fully 



into details connected with the habits and life-histories of the more 



important and conspicuous neuropterous insects inhabiting the streams, 



rivers, and lakes in New Zealand. 



Sharpe's arrangement of families has been adopted. These are 

 eleven in number, but the Mallophaga and Psocidfe have been omitted, 

 and of Embidffi and Panorpidge no representative has been so far 

 observed in the country. Altogether sixty-one species belonging to 

 thirty-six genera are dealt with. Of these, twenty-four species belong 

 to the Phryganeidse, thirteen to the Ephemeridse, ten to the Odonata, 

 and seven to the Hemerobiidse. 



The plates, reproducing the author's own drawings, are exceedingly 

 good. 



Eighth Annual Report of the State Entomologist of Minnesota for the year 

 1903. Second Annual Report of F. L. Washburn. Pp. i-xvi 

 and 1-184. 

 This volume is full of interesting matter connected with the occur- 

 rence of injurious insects in the State of Minnesota during 1903. The 

 greatest loss to farmers during the year seems to have been caused by 

 the chinch bug [Dlissus leucoptenis), whilst the Hessian fly {Cecidomyia 

 destructor) has also been active, but not more so than in previous years. 

 Forty- seven kinds of insects are mentioned as more or less destructive 

 to apple-trees. Of these, eleven are beetles and twenty-three are moths. 



Index Faiince Novce Zealandia:. Edited by Captain F. W. Hutton, 

 F.R.S. Pp. i-viii and 1-372. Loudon : Dulau & Co. 1904. 

 In this exceedingly useful index to the animals of New Zealand 

 the Insecta alone occupy one hundred and forty pages, eighty of which 

 refer to Coleoptera and twenty-three to Lepidoptera. Synonymy, 

 which would probably have greatly added to the size of the book, has 

 been excluded, but references are given to the works where such 

 particulars as well as descriptions can be found. 



