l897-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. I5 



Entomological Litera.ttJ.re. 



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, or con- 

 taining descriptions of new genera, will not be noted. Contributions to the anatomy of 

 insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species wili be recorded. 



1. ZooLOGiscHER Anzeiger. Leipsic, Nov. 2, 1896 — On the biology 



of the social wasps of Brazil, H. von Ihering. November 23. — On the 



•copulatory organs of the Lysiopetalidce and a Lysiopetalum from Bosnia, 

 Dr. C. Verhoeff, figs. 



2. La Feuille des Jeunes Natur.alistes. Paris, Nov. i, 1896. — 

 Mimicry in insects (cont.), C. Oberthiir. 



3. Le Naturaliste. Paris, Nov. i, 1896. — Analytically illustrated 

 genera of French Coleoptera (cont.), C. Houlbert, figs. Monographic 

 essay on the Coleoptera of the genera Lucanus and Pseudolucanus, L. 

 Planet, fig. 



4." Memoirie della R. Accademia della Scienze dell'Instituto 

 Di Bologna (v), iv, 1894. Received Nov. 24, 1896. — Report on the Hy- 

 menoptera collected in Mozambique by Cav. P'ornasini, C. Emery, G. 

 Gribodo and G. Kriechbaumer. 



5. BoLLETINO DEI MUSEI DI ZOOLOGIA ED AnATOMIA CoMPARATA 



DELL.\ R. Universita DI TORINO. No. 254, Aug. 20, 1896. — Chilopods 

 and Diplopods collected by Dr. E. Fe.sta at La Guayra in Darien and at 

 Cuenca, Dr. F. Silvestri, figs. No. 256, Sept. 12. 1896. — Two anoma- 

 lous Acrididae, Dr. A. Griffini, figs. 



6. Il N.aturalista Siciliano. Palermo, Nov. i, 1896. — Regional 

 catalogue of the Coleoptera of Sicily (cont.), E. Ragusa. Studies on the 

 genera Alaocyba, Torneuma and Atnaurorrhinus (concl.), J. Croissan- 

 deau. On the nidification and biology of Sphex paliidosus Rossi, T. 

 De Stefan i. 



7. The Brain of the Bee. — A preliminary contribution to the mor- 

 phology of the nervous system of the Arthropoda. By F. C. Kenyon. 

 Reprint from Journal of Comparative Neurology, vi, 3, pp. 133-210, pis. 

 xiv-.xxii. December, 1896. 



8. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 

 (B), 1S6. pt. 2.— The pigments of the Pieridae; a contribution to the study 

 of excretory substances which function in ornament. By F. G. Hopkins. 



9. Bulletin de la Societe nationale d'Acclimatation de 

 France. Paris, May, 1896. — Applied entomology in Europe, P. Marchal. 



10. Atti della Societa DEI Natural-sti di Modena, serie 3. xiv, 

 I. — On a case of albinism in Periplaneta orientalis L., T. Bentivoglio. 



11. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 

 serie 2, xvi. — Travels of Leonardo Fea in Burmah and neighboring re- 

 gions. Colydiidae et Monotomidae, A. Grouvelle; Languriidae, Erotylidae 



