THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



his frequent publications in the Canadian 

 Entomologist. His papers on Tineina and 

 their Food-Plants,M\A Index to the Described 

 Tineina of the United States and Canada 

 (Bull. U. S. Geolog.-Geograph. Surv. , vol. 

 iv., pp. 107-167), have been appreciatively 

 received as very convenient for reference. 



The comparatively small but difficult 

 group of the Pterophoridae has engaged the 

 attention of Mr. Charles Fish, of Oldtown, 

 Me., and his studies have already made 

 him our best authority in these forms. 



From the above references to special 

 studies in several of the families of the 

 Lepidoptera, it will be seen that this at- 

 tractive Order gives every promise of soon 

 occupying high vantage ground. 



In the other Orders — it is quite unneces- 

 sary that I should refer in the Coleoptera 

 to the labors of Drs. LeConte and Horn. 

 You all know of their untiring work, which 

 has made the field which they are so 

 thoroughly working almost exclusively their 

 own. 



In the Diptera, Mr. C. P. Whitney has 

 published descriptions of a few species of 

 Tabanidse. 



Mr. W. H. Patton has communicated 

 some descriptive papers on Hymenoptera 

 to the Canadian Entomologist. 



Mr. E. T. Cresson has published a cata- 

 logue of North American Apidse, with 

 descriptions of new species, comprising 108 

 pages of vol. vii. of the Trans. Amer. 

 Entomolog. Soc. 



Some valuable lists of species, collected 

 in particular regions have been given us, 

 which are of service in extending our 

 knowledge of Geographical Distribution. 

 Among these, in the Coleoptera, may be 

 mentioned, a list by E. A. Schwarz of 1,457 

 Florida species (Proc. Amer. Philosoph. 

 Soc, v. 17, pp. 353-472) ; of 1,246 species 

 from the Lake Superior region by H. G. 

 Hubbard and E. A. Schwarz ; by the same, 

 of 1,787 species from the lower peninsular 

 of Michigan (loc. cit., v. 17, pp. 593-666) ; 

 by Dr. LeConte, of 220 species collected 

 in the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of 

 6,000 feet and upwards (Bull. Geolog.- 

 Geograph. Surv. Terr., v. 4, pp. 447-480) ; 



additions to Messrs. Austin and LeContes' 

 Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Mt. Wash- 

 ington, of 89 species, extending the number 

 to 319, by F. Gardiner, Jr. (^Psyche, v. 2, p. 

 211) ; 316 species from Wallace Co., Kansas, 

 by F. H. Snow (Trans. Kans. Acad. Sci., 

 vol. vi., pp. 61-70) ; and additions of 435 

 species to the Catalogue of Kansas Cole- 

 optera, by E. A. Popenoe (ut. cit., pp. 77- 

 86), increasing the number to 1,711. 



In the Lepidoptera, Mr. C. E. Worthing- 

 ton furnishes a list of 229 species of Noc- 

 tuidse from the vicinity of Chicago, 111. 

 i^Canad. Entomol., v. xi., p. 68) ; Mr. W. 

 L. Devereaux, a shorter list of species 

 taken in Wayne Co., N. Y. (ut. cit. p. 105); 

 Prof. F. H. Snow, a list of 104 species col- 

 lected in Colorado, by the Kansas Uni- 

 versity Scientific Expedition in 1876. 



The valuable biological studies of Mr. 

 W. H. Edwards have been continued with 

 their wonted earnestness. Through the 

 success attained by him in carrying a large 

 number of species of butterflies from the 

 egg through their transformations, he has 

 secured their entire life-histories, several 

 of which have been published during the 

 past year, and others illustrated in the 

 volume of the Butterflies of North Amer- 

 ica. Of the Satyridse, the larvae of which 

 are so rarely met with that I may venture 

 to say many members of this Club have 

 not seen a living example, he has reared 

 all of our Eastern species with the two ex- 

 ceptions of Satyrus Pegale and Chionobas 

 semidea. The interesting experiments in 

 producing change in the imago by the 

 application of cold to the chrysalis have 

 been continued and been duly recorded. 



A large number of biological papers 

 have been contributed to our entomolo- 

 gical journals. From those accessible to 

 me at the time of writing I find contribu- 

 tions from the following : C. J. S. Bethune, 

 J. Boll, Robert Bunker, V. T. Chambers, 

 A. J. Cook, Charles Dury, H. Edwards, 

 W. H. Edwards, J. H. Emerton, G. H. 

 French, H. A. Hagen, E. C. Howe, D. S. 

 Kellicott, J. L. LeConte, B. P. Mann, 

 T. L. Mead, C. V. Riley, W. Saunders, 

 C. G. Siewers, Emma A. Smith, F. H. 



