6o ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 



Smith. " Observations on some Coleoptera from the Bonin Islands," by 

 C. O. Waterhouse and C. J. Gahan. " Description of three new species 

 of butterflies from New Ireland," by H. Grose Smith. "Seasonal di- 

 morphism in Japanese butterflies," by Dr. Adolf Fritze. 



" Les Parnassiens de la Faune Palearctique," par Jules L^on Am- 

 stat, Leipzig, 1889. — This is practically a monograph of the genus, all the 

 species being mentioned, except our American Parnassius clodius. There 

 are two hundred and twenty-two pages devoted to descriptions, history, 

 etc., of the species and varieties, and thirty-two plates, representing a 

 number of figures delineating the species, varieties and comparative anat- 

 omy. The figures are fine examples of chromo-lithography. 



" S. African Butterflies: A monograph of the extra-tropical species," 

 by Roland Trimen and James Henry Bowker, Vol. 3. — Papilionidae and 

 Hesperidse. This volume completes the work; it contains four hundred 

 and thirty-eight pages and twenty-eight colored figures. These three 

 volumes make a very valuable addition to the literature of the subject, and 

 are very exhaustive. 



The ZooLOGiscHER Anzeiger for Feb. 10, 1890, contains a summary 

 of ^. Carriere's studies "On the embryological development of the Wall 

 Bee {Chalicodonta muraria Fab.) 



Le Naturaliste for Feb. 15, 1890, contains an article by L. Cu^not, 

 " On the means of defense of Arthropods," including references to insects, 

 and P. Dognin describes a new lepidopter from Loja, Oxytenis? ecua- 

 dorensis. 



The Entomologische Nachrichten (Berlin) for February, 1890, con- 

 tains '' Petitathentis membranulata, a new Australian Libellulid with five- 

 sided cardinal cell," by Dr. F. Karsch, describing a new genus Pentathe- 

 tnis (family Cordu/ina), type P. niembranulatd n. sp. from Torres Strait, 

 with a woodcut of fore wing. "On varieties of European Cicindelidae," 

 by H. Beuthin. " On Galls and Gall-flies from flower-heads of various 

 Compositae (continued)," by J. J. Kieffer, including Cecidomyia floruni 

 n. sp. " New Histeridae (^Coleoptera)," by Joh. Schmidt (continued), nine 

 species of the genera Stictostix, Tribalus, Pelortirus and Sapriniis, from 

 Australia, Africa and South America. Some shorter notes and notices of 

 recent entomological works. 



Indian Museum Notes (economic) Vol. i, No. 2; one hundred and 

 twenty pages, three plates, Calcutta, 1889 ; published by authority of the 

 Government of India. 



In Le Naturaliste (Paris) for Feb. i, 1890, Ed. Andr^ has a note on 

 " Les larves de Malachius (Coleoptera, fam. Malacodermidae)," with two 

 woodcuts of the larva of M. bipushdatus . P. Dognin diagnoses two new 

 Lepidoptera from Zamora, Amaluza and \^o]A-^Acidalia adela and Cabe- 

 rodes snellenaria. 



