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and covers pages 359 to 712 of Yol. VI of the Annals of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences, and with the exception of the last three pages, 

 is devoted exclusively to two families of Rhynchoi)hora. 



The great tribe Batumi is treated in monographic form, and in addition 

 synopses are given of the following genera: Dorytomns, Smicronyx, 

 Promecotarsus n. g., Tychius, Thysanocnemis, Otidocephalus, Acamp- 

 tus, Tyloderma, Phyrdenus and Zygops of the Cnrcnlionidre, and 

 Cactophagns, Calandra, Ynccaborus, Himatium, Allomimus, Pseudo- 

 pentarthrum and Pentarthrinus n. g., of the Calandridtie. 



In Calandra, a genus which includes our Rice and Grain Weevils and 

 others of the greatest economic importance, the author considers re- 

 motepnnctata a synonym of granaria, and adds to our fauna linearis 

 Hbst. and rugicoUis n. sp. The occurrence of linearis m our southern 

 states has been recognized for years j)ast, but we should hesitate before 

 including rugicoUis in our faunal list, founded as the species is on a 

 single Florida specimen, of probably accidental occurrence. 



In the concluding chapter of the appendix the author suppresses 

 twenty-two of his own species of Stenus, thus indicating a most praise- 

 worthy disposition to change his views upon acquiring additional facts 

 and material. 



WESTWARD SPREAD OF THE CLOVER-LEAF WEEVIL. 



We learn from an article by Mr. A. W. Butler, in the Indiana Farmer 

 of January 14, that Phytonomus imnctatus has been found the past sea- 

 son in northwestern Ohio in injurious numbers and also in the vicinity 

 of Cincinnati. Anticipating its spread to southeastern Indiana the 

 coming season Mr. Butler republishes our figures from the 1881-'82 re- 

 port and gives a full account of the life history of the insect. 



THE LARVAL HABITS OF THE ACALYPTRATE MUSCID^. 



Prof. C. H. Tyler Townsend, in the Canadian Entomologist for Jan- 

 uary, 1893, gives a most valuable summary of the known larval food- 

 habits of this group of true flies. The list contains all of the facts al- 

 ready on record and a number of unpublished observations by the 

 author. The grouping of the larval family habits in this way is of great 

 interest. We notice that the author questions the parasitism of Lesto- 

 phonus upon Icerya as well as of Leucopis upon plant-lice and scale- 

 insects. There can be, however, no doubt as to the actual parasitism 

 in both of these cases. Personal observations on the part of several 

 entomologists besides our own, as already recorded, sufliciently prove 

 this, and while skepticism is a good trait in a naturalist, it can serve 

 no purpose when questioning well attested fact, upon no other grounds 

 than generalization from group habit. 



A BLOOD-SUCKING CHIR0N03IID. 



In Psyche for January, 1893, Prof. C. H. Tyler Townsend describes, 

 under the name Tersesthes n. g. torrens n. sp., a minute gnat which he 



