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Fossil insects.*— We have recently received under one cover four papers 

 by Mr. Scudder, giving the results of his studies upon fossil insects. 

 The titles are as follows : New Types of Cockroaches from the Car- 

 boniferous Deposits of the United States; New Carboniferous Myria- 

 poda from Illinois; Illustratiods of the Carboniferous Arachnida of 

 North America, of the Orders Antliracomarti and Pedipalpi; and The 

 Insects of the Triassic Beds at Fairplay, Colorado. 



Two very handsome lithographic plates illustrate the first paper, 6 

 are devoted to the second, 3 to the third, and 2 to the fourth. 



The papers are purely descriptive and contain few or no generali- 

 zations. 



Dr. Lintner's sixth report.f — Although shorter than his previous reports, 

 with the exception of the third, Dr. Lintner's sixth report brings to- 

 gether a number of well-illustrated and attractively written articles 

 upon the insects which have been brought to his attention since the 

 l)ublication of his previous report. The principal insects considered 

 are the Ox Warble-fly, the Bacon Beetle, the Pea Weevil, several Blis- 

 ter Beetles, the Cottony Maple Scale, the Mole Cricket, and the Red- 

 legged Grasshopper. One of the most interesting points brought out 

 is the further damage to honeycomb by Dermestes lardarius, the only 

 previous mention of which was published by Dr. Kiley in the second 

 volume of the American Entomologist. 



Dr.Lintner exhibits his customary care in reviewing the literature of 

 each insect considered, and in this, as in many other respects, his re- 

 ports are models which could be followed to advantage by many of our 

 younger writers. 



He also publishes as usual, in appendix form, the useful list of his 

 publications during the year. The report covers about one hundred 

 pages and is illustrated with twenty-five cuts, most of which we are 

 glad to notice are duly acknowledged. 



Maskell on Coocididae, Psyllidae and Aleurodidae — We have recently re- 

 ceived from the author the following valuable papers, read before the 

 Wellington Philosophical Society, October 2, 1889, and published in 

 the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, vol. xxii, 1889 : Art. 

 XVI, Further Notes on Ooccididie, with Descriptions of New Species 

 from Australia, Fiji, and New Zealand; Art. xvii: On some Species of 

 Psyllidse in New Zealand ; and Art. xviii : On some Aleurodidie from 



'Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. IV, No. 9. Boston, Sep- 

 tember, 1890. 



t Sixth Report of the Injurious and other lusects of the State of New York, by J. 

 A. Lintner, ph. d.. State Entomologist, Albany, N. Y., 1890. Extracted from the 

 forty-third report of the New York State Museum of Natural History. 



