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codennaia), by H. S. Gorham; and Vol. V (Longicornia), by H. W. 

 Bales and {Bruchides) by D. Sharp. These four vokimes contain 2088 

 pages and 69 plates, with many hundred figures. In addition several other 

 volumes on Coleoptera are well under way. \'ol. I of the Rhopalocera is 

 complete, save the inde.x and title, running through the suborder from 

 Danais plexippus to Isaphis hera. 



Insect Life, Vol. 11, No. 6, December, 1889 (Received Jan. 14, 1890). 

 It hardly seems worth while to enumerate the usual richness of the monthly 

 issues of this most excellent periodical, as it may be had from the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture for the asking; no entomologist can afford to 

 be without it. Beside's short notes on " The Official Association of Econ- 

 omic Entomologists," "Entomology at the Paris Exposition," "The 

 Mediterranean Flour-moth," "Spider-bites," "Scent in Dung beetles," 

 "Beetles from Stomach of a Chuck-wills-widow," " A harvest-mite de- 

 stroying the eggs of the Potato beetles," "Injury to grass from Gastro- 

 physa polygoni,'' "Damage to Pine by Rhagiuni Hneaium,''' Notes on 

 " Vedalia'' and "On Hczmatobia serrata,'' there are longer papers on 

 "The so-called Mediterranean Flour-moth," with illustrations; "The 

 O-K.-'WQ.rhXe {Hypoderma bovis), illustrated;" "Association of Economic 

 Entomologists — First Annual Meeting," by L. O. Howard, secretary- pro. 

 tern.; "Office and Laboratory Organization," by S. A. Forbes. Follow- 

 ing these are " General Notes" on " Oviposition of Tragidion/iilvipenne," 

 ■" Insects injuring the tea-plant in Ceylon," " On some gall-making insects 

 in New Zealand," "Dr. Franz Low" and "Eugene Maillot," obituary 

 notices, and the usual quota of purely economic notes. 



Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera 

 IN the Collection of the British Museum, Part 7, by Arthur Gardiner 

 Butler, 1889, contains an account of a collection of Macro- Lepidoptera 

 made in the district of Kangra India by the Rev. J. H. Hocking in the 

 years 1877-79, chiefly at Dharmsala. The number of species amounts to 

 upwards of 780, many reared from larvae. "There is a systematic list and 

 a list of descriptions with notes. Vol. VII consists of 124 pages, 18 fine 

 colored lithographic plates representing 249 figures. 



In the CoMPTES Rendus Hebdomadaires des seances de la So- 

 ciETE DE BiOLOGiE (Paris) ninth series, 1890, No. i. — M. Gaston Bouchet 

 has a short note on the "Action of the Venom of the Hymenoptera on 

 the gray wall-lizard." He states that he caused some wasps, bees, and 

 other hymenopters to stmg some gray lizards, some of which received 

 eight or ten stings on the most sensitive parts, such as the eyelids, tongue, 

 etc. In most cases the piercer remained sticking in the flesh. The lizards 

 apparently suffered little pain, and no inflammation was visible at the 

 places stung. None of the lizards who were stung died. 



Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of .Sciences, Arts, 

 AND Letters, Vol. VII, 1883-87 (published 1889), contains a paper on the 

 Attidae of North America by George W. and Elizabeth G. Peckham. 32 



