1890.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 29 



Kn.tom.ologica.1 Litera.tu.re. 



Proceeding of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Januar>-June, 1889 

 ["Issued May-August, 1889;" jeceived in Philadelphia, Dec. 21, 1889.] 

 Contains the following : "Three new Homoptera" (Indian species) by M. 

 L. Lethierr>'.— E. M. A. 



Science — Dec. 20, 1889, contains a ver>' full and appreciative review 

 of the work done and recently reported upon by Prof. W. A. Henry, of 

 the Wisconsin Experiment Station, acting under the direction of Secretary 

 of Agriculture Rusk, on certain matters connected with agricultural and 

 entomological research on the Pacific coast. — E. M. A. 



Annals of the N. Y. Acade.mv of Science, Vol. IV, No. 12 [" Nov. 

 1889;" received Dec. 21, 1889.] — Contains a new genus of Termitophilous 

 Staphvlinid^ (continued)" by T. L. Casey. T. insolens, from Panama, 

 is described as new. — E. M. A. 



The Entomologist. — December, 1889, contains " Pararge inegcsra" 

 by Sydney Webb. The author figures and describes an aberrant form 

 captured in Kent. " Notes on Parasites of Atherix ibis Fabr." by W. H. 

 Ashmead, T. R. Billups and F. W. F'rohaws. Hymenopterous insects of 

 the genera Antcron and Trichogramma are commented on. "Notes 

 from the Northwest Counties," by J. Arkle; collection Notes. "Ento- 

 mology' of Iceland," by Rev. F. A. Walker. Notes on a list of Insects 

 taken there this year. "Contributions towards a list of the varieties of 

 Noctuce occurring in the British Islands," by J. W. Tutt. — Under "Ento- 

 mological Notes, Captures, etc.," there are the usual notes on localities, 

 odd aberations, varieties, etc. In addition, notes on " Parasites on Moths," 

 by E. Bostock. "New views on the suborder Homoptera," by W. L. 

 Distant," and "Fungus parasitic on Insects," by George J. Grapes, are 

 interesting. The usual reports of the Proceedings of the English Ento- 

 mological Societies, and reviews of Distant's "Monograph of Oriental 

 Cicadidae" and Porritt's " Notes on an extraordinary race of Arctia men- 

 dica Linn." are followed by six pages of index, etc. — E. M. A. 



Fifth Report of the Injurious and other Insects of the State 

 OF New .York, by J. A. Lintner, Ph. D., State Entomologist, Albany, 

 1889. In a work of 203 well-printed pages, the author treats of " Reme- 

 dies and Preventions of Insect Attack," "Injurious Hvmenoptera," 

 "Injurious Lepidoptera," "Injurious Diptera," Injurious Coleop- 

 tera," "Injurious Hemiptera," "Insect Attacks and Miscellaneous 

 Observations," " Acarina and Mvriopoda," and adds a "List of publi- 

 cations of the Entomologist" (1888) 52 articles being enumerated, and 

 69 articles added in a special bibliography for 1884 and 1885. Indices, 

 general and botanical, occupying 21 pages are added; 50 figures in the 

 text serve to illustrate as many insect pests or friends. As is usual with 



