1890.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 61 



The Orvos-Termeszettudomanyi Ertesito (Medical and Natural 

 Science Communications, being the organ of that Section of the Transyl- 

 vanian Museum Union), Vol. XIV, 3 heft, 1889, contains "Contributions 

 to the Coleopterous fauna of Transylvania," by L. V. M^hely. It is a list 

 of species with notes in Hungarian. A German summary is given p. 295; 

 also a " Notice of his entomological excursion into Sz^klerland," by Dr. A. 

 Balint; a general list of insects taken. 



Le N.aturaliste Canadien for January, 1890, contains notes on the 

 Jassidse (Hemiptera-Homoptera) of the province of Quebec, and describes 

 as new, — Thamnotettix decipiens and Bythoscopus pruni (Fitch ms.) 



In the Transactions of the Maryland Academy of Sciences for 

 1888-89, PP- 33-44. Prof- P- ^- Uhler describes some "New genera and 

 species of American Homoptera." The new genera are Scaphoideus 

 (fam. Jassidce), type /. immistus Say and three new species; Dyctidce 

 (fam. Issidae), type D. angustata and one other new species; Dictyobia 

 (Issidae), type D. pernmtata n. sp.; Dictyonia (Issidae), type D. obscura 

 n. sp., Danepteryx (Issidae), type D. inanca n. sp.; also a new species of 

 Tilicen {cupreo-sparsa). Most of these new species are from California. 



In II Naturalista Siciliano for Dec. i, 1889, B. Grassi and G. Ro- 

 velli publish their sixth memoir on the Progenitors of the Myriapods and 

 Insects by a (continued) study on the Italian Thysanura. Four new spe- 

 cies of Lepisma are described. 



We have received from the author a copy of " Die Tagfalter {Rhopal- 

 ocerd) Europas und des Caucasus. Analytisch bearbeitet von K. L. Bram- 

 son. Kiew. Verlag des Verfassers, 1890." In this work Prof Bramson 

 publishes analytical tables of the families, genera and species of the but- 

 terflies of Europe and the Caucasus, with notes on the distribution and 

 time of appearance of each species. A list of all the species (330 in num- 

 ber) with their varieties and synonyms, and alphabetical lists of the fami- 

 lies, genera and species are given. One plate showing the terminology 

 of the wings and head of a lepidopter accompanies this work, which ought 

 to be of great use to students of the European Rhopalocera. 



R. Moniez has a (continued) paper on the " Acari and Marine Insects of 

 the sides of the Boulonrtais" in the "Revue Biologique du Nord de la 

 France (Lille)," 2me Ann^e, No. 5, Fevrier, 1890. 



The Entomologisk Tijdskrift (published in Swedish, with short re- 

 sumes in French, by the Entomological Society of Stockholm) Arg. 10, 

 1889, Haft 1-4, contains, besides other notes, the continuation of H. D. J. 

 Wallengren's " Skandinaviens vecklarefjarilar, " relating to the Tortricidae. 

 "New contributions to the myriopodology of Scandinavia," by C. O. v. 

 Porat. Lists of entomological papers of 1888, relating to Scandinavia and 

 Finland, and a new species of Charaxes {regiusirom the Cameroons), by 

 Chr. Aurivillius. 



