1890.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 163 



in the Shan States, with notes on the country- and climate, by Neville 

 Manders. Notes on the species of the families Lycidae and Lampyridae, 

 contained in the Imperial Museum of Calcutta, with descriptions of new 

 species, and a list of the species at present described from India, by Rev. 

 Henry S. Gorham. On some new species of African diurnal Lepidoptera, 

 by Philip Crowley. 



The West American Scientist, September, 1890. — New Coccids 

 from California, by D. W. Coquillett. 



Proceedings and Transactions of the Liverpool Biological 

 Society, vol. iv, p. 170. — The post-embryonic development of a gnat 

 {Culex^, by C. Herbert Hurst. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History, vol. vi, No. 34. — De- 

 scription of some new species of African butterflies in the collection of 

 Capt. G. E. Shelley, by E. M. Sharpe. 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Pt. 3, 1890. 

 — On some new moths from India, by H. J. Elwes. On a collection of 

 Acarina found in Algeria, by A. D. Michael. Descriptions of new species 

 of Lepidoptera-Heterocera from Central and .South America, by Herbert 

 Druce. On a collection of Lepidoptera made by Mr. Edmund Rej'nolds 

 on the rivers Tocantins and Araguaya in the Province of Goyaz, Brazil, 

 by Emily Mary Sharpe. 



Biologia Centrali-Americanw. Part 87, August, 1890. — Coleoptera: 

 vol. iv, pt. 2, by G. C. Champion, pp. 185-216, plates 8, 9; vol. vi, pt. i, 

 suppl., by M. Jacoby, pp. 201-208. Lepidoptera :-Rhopalocera: vol. ii, by 

 F. D. Godman and O. Salvin, pp. 185-208, pi. 65. Rhynchota-Heterop- 

 tera, by W. L. Distant, pp. 345-352, pi. 32. Diptera: vol. ii, by F. M. 

 V'ander Wulp, pp. 177-200. 



Essay on the Destruction of the Mosquito and House Fly, by 

 William Beutenmiiller, 180 pp. 2 plates. This interesting essay was pre- 

 sented in competition for the prize oflfered by Dr. Lamborn, of New York, 

 for the best on the subject. It gives an account of the anatomy, life-His- 

 tor>' and development of the mosquito, remedies against and an account 

 of its natural enemies. A catalogue of the described transformations of 

 the Odonata of the world is appended. 



Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift x.xxv, heft i, 1890. — Lepid- 

 opterological notes from Sumatra, by Dr. L. Martin. The Bee genus 

 Dasypoda Latr.,* by A. Schletterer; i pi. African Fulgoridae,* by Dr. 

 F. Karsch; i pi. Paropiuxys, Metopotiitys, Anecphora, Paranotus, Eury- 

 prostkius, Ph(zdohis, Conoprosthius, Aulophorus n. gen. Contributions 

 to the knowledge of the Lepidopterous fauna of Amurland, iv,* by L. 

 Graeser. Contribution to the knowledge of the singing Cicadas of Africa 

 and Madagascar,* by Dr. F. Karsch; 2 plates; 74 species are enumerated; 

 Laceias, IJgymolpa, Pcectira, Musoda n. gen. Description of the colors 



* Contains new species other than North American. 



