314 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



1903. Extensive biologic-statistic researches on the American 

 Coecids destructive to fruit. 



19. W. C. Thro : " Distinctive Characteristics of the Species 

 of the Genus Lecanium," Bull. 209, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta. 

 Ent. Div., pp. 201-21 (?*), five plates; Jan. 1903. The object 

 of this paper is to " gain a knowledge of those external features 

 that are available for distinguishing the [American] species " of 

 the genus Lecanium [recte Coccus], and is based largely upon 

 the setae, &c. 



20. J. C. H. DE Meijere : " Ueber die Prothoracalstigmen 

 der Dipteren-puppen," Zool. Jahrb. xv., Anat. Abt., pp. 623-92, 

 four plates, 1902. 



21. C. Schroder : " Die Zeichnungs-Variabilitat von Abraxas 

 grossulariata, L. (Lep.), gleichzeitig eiu Beitrag zur Descendenz- 

 Theorie," AUg. Zeit. fur Ent. viii. (Apl. 1st, 1903), pp. 105-19, 

 thirty-five text figs. The first part of a paper on temperature 

 experiments on the -paXiem-VQ,v\Qh\\\iy oi Abraxas grossidariata. 

 One -hundred figures are promised, of which thirty-five appear in 

 this first instalment. 



22. A. D. Imbis: " Chmio bicolor, Kieff., marine Chironomid 

 new to the Fauna of Great Britain," Trans. Liverpool Biol. Soc. 

 xvii. pp. 81-6, three text figs., 1903. Supplemental to his 

 "Notes on the Genus Clunio, Hal." (Entom. 1902, pp. 157-8), 

 by an account of C. bicolor, which he found " skimming over the 

 surface of the rock-pools on the shores about Port Erin, Isle of 

 Man." 



23. K. Nagano : " Chcerocampa oldenlandii. Fab. (Sesuji- 

 suzume)," Insect World, vii. no. 3, Mch. 15th, 1903, English 

 suppl., one pi. with col. and plain fig. [Lep.] 



24. K. Nagano: " Protoparce orientalis, Butler (Ebigara- 

 suzume)," t. c, no. 4, Ap. 15th, 1903, Engl, suppl., one pi. with 

 plain and col. fig. [Lep.] 



25. K. Nagano : " Diludia increta. Walker (Shimofuri- 

 suzume)," t. c, IMay 15th, no. 5, Engl, suppl., one pi. with fig. 



Protoparce orientalis, which IVIr. Nagano thinks identical with 

 Sphinx convolmdi, is recorded from several Japanese localities, 

 July to September. The larva is described and noted as occurring 

 on fyovioea batatas, Calystegia sejnum, Pharbitis hederacea, and 

 Tetragonia expansa. The Chcsrocampa is recorded from the same 

 localities during IVIay to June. The larva is described and re- 

 corded from Colocasia antiqiiariim and Pinellia tuberifera, July 

 to September. In this number of the magazine figures appear 

 of sexes and varieties of the Coleoptera Lucanus macidifemoratas 

 and CladognatJius inclinatus. Diludia increta is recorded from 

 Kiusiu, Shikoku, and Housiu during July and August ; the larva 

 is noted on a number of plants, July to September. 



'■''• I have only the separate bulletin before me, and am not certain of the 

 exact pagination. 



