March, '02] entomological news. 91 



5-24 1899 

 Prof. H. Osborn Dersir 



I take the privalige to write to you for to se if I can get any infermation 

 as to how to destroy aunts I hav a lot in the cemetry that they are on that 

 I hav tried coaloil on Tortentine but to no purpos and hav tried pound 

 the surface with a beatle and that only set them to work nioar they are 

 working in a great many places in the cemetry I thought perhaps you 

 might give us som plan to destroy shem 

 pleas answer as soon as convenient 

 Yours truly 



I presume every entomologist, especially every one who has had the 

 privilege of serving on a station staff, has had enough experience to 

 become hardened to the amusing efforts of some of their correspondents. 

 However, here is one that may bring a smile and I reproduce it verbatim 

 et literatim, all except the chirography which needs zinc etching to do it 

 justice. — Herbert Osborn. 



EntomologicaLl LiteratiAre. 



COMPILED BY HENRY L. VIERECK AND JAMES A. G. REHN. 



Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North 

 and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology, unless monographs, will not be 

 noted. Contributions to the anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, 

 whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. The numbers in heavy- 

 faced type refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers 

 are published ; * denotes that the paper in question contains descriptions of new North 

 American forms. The titles of all papers will be quoted in the original and not translated. 



2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Philadelphia. 

 — 4. The Canadian Entomologist, London, Ontario. — 5. Psyche, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass — 11. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London. 

 — 15. Biologia Centrali Americana, London. — 22. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 

 Leipsic. — 32. Bulletin du Museum d'HistoireNaturelle, Paris. — 33. Sitz- 

 zungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathema- 

 tisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, Vienna —35. Annales, Societe En- 

 tomologique de Belgique, Brussels. — 44. Verhandlungen der K. K. 

 Zoologische-Botanische Gesellschaft, Vienna. — 143. Ohio State University 

 Naturalist, Columbus.— 158. Zeitschrift fiir systematische Hymenopter- 

 ologie und Dipterologie, Teschendorf. 



THE GENERAL SUBJECT.— Anon. Les Entomologistes a Montreal. 

 Le Naturaliste Canadien, Chicoutimi, xxix, Jan., '02. — Braner, F. Ueber 

 die von Prof. O. Simony auf den Canaren gefundenen Neuroptera und 

 Pseudoneuroptera (Odonata, Corrodentia et Ephemeridae), 33, ix Band, vii 

 Heft, 1900. — Iches, L. Les Insects des violettes. La Nature, Paris, xxx, 

 Jan. 25, '02.— Mdbius, K. Einleitung zu einer Besprechung iiber den 

 Artbegriff. Gesellschaft Nafurforschender Freunde zu Berlin, Dec, '01. — 



