1890.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. I33 



The Entomologist, September, 1890. — Additions to the British List 

 of Deltoids. Pyralides and Crambi, since 1859 (with plates), by Richard 

 South. Notes on some species of Gall-gnats (Cecidomyiae), by T. D. A. 

 Cockerel!. Contributions to the Chemistry of Insect Colors, by T. H. 

 Perr>' Coste. An addition to the Plusiidae of Britain, by R. South. Five 

 Days' Collecting in Normandy, by J. H. Leech. Entomological Notes, 

 Captures, etc. Doings of Societies. 



Second Annual Report of the South Carolina Experiment 

 Stations for 1889. Ten pages are devoted to Entomology, by Ellison 

 A. Smyth, Jr., botanist and entomologist. 



Yerhandlungen der k. k. zool.-bot. Gesellsch.\ft in Wien, xl, 

 2 Quartal. June, 1890. On the connecting links between the orthorraphic 

 and cyclorrhaphic Diptera and those between Syrphidae and Muscariae, 

 by Dr. Fr. Brauer. On Lorrainian Gall Flies,* by J. J. Kieffer. Explana- 

 tion of J. C. Savigny's plates of Orthoptera in the " Description de 

 I'Egypte," by Dr. H. Krauss. On the adaptation of the colors of butter- 

 flies and caterpillars to their surroundings, and on the character of the 

 Lepidopterous fauna of the Kilima-Ndjaro district in East Africa, by A. 

 Rogenhofer", etc. 



CoMPT. Rendu. Societe Entomologique de Belgique, July 5, 1890. 

 — Causeries Odonatologiques, by E. de Selys-Longchamps ; reviews Dr. 

 Hagen's recent synopses of Calopteryx and Anax, with a note on some 

 of the American Mecistogasters. A new type of underground Prionid, 

 by A. Lameere; Geoprionus n. gen.*, tjrpe G. syntheticus n. sp., Rio Brazil. 



Yerhandlungen des Naturforschenden Yereines in Brunn, 

 xxvii, 1888 (Briinn, i88c).— The Lepidoptera of the Achal-Tekke Dis- 

 trict, by H. Th. Christoph ; a bibliographical and geographical list of the 

 species from this district of Turkestan. Identification of the European 

 Coleoptera. Family Phalacridae,* by C. Flach, i pi. An entomological 

 excursion from Briinn to the borders of Transylvania in June, 1888, by Dr. 

 A. Fleischer, with a list of Coleoptera* then collected. Coleopterolog- 

 ical Results (of the expedition in Transcaspia in 1886 and 1887, conducted 

 by Dr. G. Radde, Dr. A. Walter and A. Konchin) by E. Reitter ;* Micro- 

 julisius, Cplposcythis, Anidania, Adoxinia, new genera. 



Le Naturliste (Paris), Aug. i and other numbers, 1890. New lepid- 

 optera from Ecuador are described by P. Dognin. 



Anatomischer Anzeiger. July 19, 1890.— Is the Ommatidium a Hair- 

 bearing sense Bud ? by William Patten. 



Bulletin de la Societe Philomathique de Paris, 8e serie, ii, 1890. 

 Note on the lyriform organs of Arachnids. Note on the anatomical struc- 

 ture of the pecten of scorpions and the coxal raquettes of the Galeoda. 

 Note on the movement of the limbs and jointed hairs in the Arthropoda 

 by P. Gaubert. 



* Contains new species other than North American. 



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