86 



Authors and Societies are requested to forward their works to the Edi- 

 tor at the earliest date possible. We ask our readers to inform us of the 

 publication especially of those works which are not generally consulted by 

 entomologists. B. Pickman Mann. 



(Continued from page 80.) 



No. 202 is from the Sixth Annu. Rep. Peab. Acad. Sci, 

 for 1873. 



* 202. A. S. Packard, Jr. Record of American Ento- 

 mology for the year 1878. p. 61-114. (Continued.) 



Hemiptera (by P. R. Uhler). List of 5 articles by 5 authors ; notice 

 of 103 (14 new) species of 45 genera. 



Orthoptera (by S. H. Scudder). List of 5 articles by 4 authors; no- 

 tice of 259 (13 new) species of G6 (Pedioseertetes, Tropidolophus [Acridii] 

 = 2 new) genera. 



Neuroptera (by A. S. Packard, Jr.). List of 15 articles by 7 authors; 

 notice of 224 (38 new) species of 86 genera. 



Arachnida (by A. S. Packard, Jr.). List of 5 articles by 4 authors; 

 notice of 30 (27 new) species of 14 genera. 



Myriopoda (by A. S. Packard, Jr.). List of 2 articles by 2 authors; 

 notice of 1 1 new species of 7 ( Archiulus = 1 new) genera. 



In all, the writings of 52 authors are recorded, and 1853 (930 new) species 

 of 781 (123 new) genera are noticed. 



The Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. [see Rec, Nos. 10-25], vol. 

 ii, contains Nos. 203 to 223. 



* 203. A. R. Grote. List of the Noctuidae of North 

 America. p. 1-77, with one plate (i), containing eleven 

 figures. 



Criticism of previous authors; synopsis of the three independent groups 

 here catalogued, and of the genera Agrotis, Hadena and Mamestra; list of 

 214 genera, 811 species; index to genera; descriptions of 10 (Feralia, 

 Adita, Chytonix, Zosteropoda, Zotheca, Stiria, Stibadium, Melaporpliyria, 

 Tricopis = 9 new, Antiblemma = 1 previously described) genera, and of 

 35 (Feralia Comstocki, F.februalis, Agrotis phyllophora, A.formalis, A.spec- 

 ialis, Mamestra puerilis, Diantlioecia rufula, D. insolens, Oncocnemis Behrensi, 

 Hadena genialis, H. marina, Zosteropoda hirtipes, Pachnobia. cornuta, Zotheca 

 tranquitta, Scopelosoma Graefiana, S. ceromatica, S. Morrisoni, Xylomiges 

 hiemalis, Plusia 8-scripta, P. viridisigma, Stiria rugifrons, Stibadium spumo- 

 sum, Lygranthoecia saturata, Melaporpliyria immortua, Tricopis clirysellus, 

 Antiblemma canalis—2Q new) species; position of Epipaschia, with list 

 of species. 



