1890.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 99 



scribed to date. A new classification is adopted, based on the habits of 

 the secondary larva, which does not differ materially from that already in 

 vogue, based on the characters of the insects themselves. Some of our 

 genera were unknown to the author, and a good number fairly well mis- 

 understood. While the work will be useful for reference as a compen- 

 dium it will hardly become a standard in classification. — G. H. H. 



Verhandlungen der k. k. Zoologisch-Botanisch Gesellschaft 

 IN WiEN, Bd. xxxix, Heft 3. — " Contributions to the knowledge of the 

 chilopods," B. Schaufler, with one plate and four zincographs, treating of 

 the male and female genital organs. " Arachnidae Transcaspicae, " E. 

 Simon, describing, new species and three new genera, Attnlus (fam. At- 

 tidae), Scylax (fam. Drassidae) and Phyxioschema (fam. Avicularidae), 

 Heft 4 (same Band). "Determination-table of the Trichopterygidae of 

 the European faunal district," by C. Flach, with five plates and one zinco- 

 graph; the table i^ arranged both for genera and species, and includes six 

 new species. "Fourth Contribution to the Dipterous Fauna of Tyrol," 

 E. Pokorny, including new species of various genera of the families Bibi- 

 onidae, Anthomyzinse and Helomyzina2, and establishing two new genera, 

 Chiastocheta (fam. Anthomyzinae), type Aricia trollii Ztt., and Steringo- 

 myia (fam. Sarcophaginae), type 6". stylifera n. sp. 



North American Lepidoptera. Revjsed Check-List of the N. 

 American Noctuid^ by A. Radcliffe Grote, A. M., Part I. Thyatirinae — 

 Noctuinae. Bremen, 1890. Printed by Homeyer & Meyer, Rutenhof, pp. 

 52. Preface and Index. — This list, Mr. Grote states, is to supersede or 

 take the place of the list of 1875-76, and like the latter the new list simply 

 enumerates the species and proposes a number of new generic terms 

 without description. " So far as I am concerned it closes my thirty years' 

 work in the North American Owlet moths and represents my present 

 comprehension of the natural .classification of the family."* Mr. Grote 

 separates the usual small aggregation as Thyatirinae, and places all the 

 rest of the genera into the Noctuinae, dividing them tribally. The Bom- 

 bycoidi head the list with three genera. In this tribe and in the preceding 

 subfamily species described by Dr. Strecker, Mr. Edwards and myself, 

 even as far back as 1876; have been omitted. 



The Apatelini contain fourteen genera. The Agrotini contain eleven; 

 about fifty species of Agrotis described by myself are omitted. In sug- 

 gesting that the species of Agrotis need re-arrangement, a series of char- 

 acters is given with a show of originality, although they had been used by 

 European authors thirty years ago. Mr. Grote is comfortably unaware 

 that over one hundred species of what he calls Agrotis are structurally 

 absolutely identical with the two species which he separates as Carneades. 



The Dicopini follow, with four genera. 



The Hadenini contain forty-four genera, and in this tribe are contained 



* See Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xxi, 143, 1887, for almost identical language. 



