112 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September, 



Identification of Insects (^Imagos) for Subscribers. 



Specimens will be named under the following conditions : ist, The number of speci- 

 mens to be limited to twelve (12) for each sending ; 2d. The sender to pay all expenses of 

 transportation and the insects to become the property of the American Entomological 

 Society ; 3d, Each specimen must have a number attached so that the identification may 

 be aimounced accordingly. Such identifications as can be given will be published, accord- 

 ing to number, in the issues of the News. Address packages to Entomological News, 

 Academy Natural Sciences, Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pa. , 



W. M. Hill. — i., Sphenophorus 13-punctatus; 2, Hister interrnptus; 3, 

 Elater rubrico/lis; 4, Gastrophysa cyanea; 5, Chrysopila thoracica; 6, 

 Languria nwzardi; 7, Megilla maculata; 8, Chlcenius cestivus; 9, Lebia 

 grandis; 10, 11, ChauliangnathtismarginaUis; 12, Chalcenius tortnentosus . 



W. LoEWENSTEiN, Jr. — I, Passulus cornutus; 2, Necrophorus ameri- 

 catius; 3, Calosoma Willcoxi; 4, Nyctobates pennsylvanicus; 5, Megalo- 

 dacne fasciata; 6, Tenebrio tenebrioides; 7, Oicujus clavipes; 8, Catogenus 

 riifus; 9, Chalcenius solitarius; 10, Harpalus caliginosus; 11, Diplochila 

 major; 12, Dicceliis elongatus. 



Entomological Literatuire. 



Bulletin from the Labratories of Natural History of the 

 State University of Iowa contains: A Monograph of the Pselaphidae 

 of North America, by E. Brendel, M.D., and H. F. Wickham, vol. i, Nos. 

 3 and 4, June, 1S90; 88 pages and 4 plates, 77 figs. Such works as these 

 are very important, and greatly facilitate study. The authors say: " In 

 preparing this monograph we hope to aid students of this large and inter- 

 esting family, by sufficiently minute descriptions and synoptical tables, to 

 recognize any species known to the fauna of the United States and British 

 America, and to see the affinities of American species to the members of 

 this family in other lands." 



Contributions toward a Monograph of the Noctuid^ of Tem- 

 perate North America.— Revision of some Taeniocampid Genera by 

 John B. Smith. From Proc. U. S. National Museum vol. xii, pp. 455-496. 

 A comparative table of genera is given, and the genera and species de- 

 scribed. Two plates and two figs, are given, showing the genital structure 



of the TvENIOCAMPIN^. 



Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. 

 xxiv, p. 482. The Life-history of Drepana arcuata, with remarks on cer- 

 tain structural features of the larva and on the supposed dimorphism of 

 Drepatta araiata and Dryopteris rosea by Alpheus S. Packard. 



Bulletin Agricultural Experiment Station of Nebraska, vol. 

 iii, art. 2. Insects Injurious to Young Trees on Tree Claims, by Lawrence 

 Bruner, pp. 141. This essay is largely illustrated, and gives a history of 

 the more important insects injurious to trees. 



