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Entomological Literature. 



The Entomologist, Dect-mber, 1890. — Editorial notes on Rhopalocera 

 of West Norfolk, by A. Smith. Collecting in Wales, by J. Arkle. A 

 preliminary list of the insect fauna of Middlesex, by T. D. A. Cockerell. 

 Contributions to the chemistry of insect colors, by F. H. Perry Coste. 

 Lists of insects taken in the Faroe and Westmann Isles, and in Iceland, 

 by Dr. F. A. Walker. Entomological notes, captures, etc. Doings of 

 Societies. 



The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, December, 1890. 

 On new Longicorn Coleoptera from Madagascar, by C. J. Gahan. De- 

 scriptions of new genera of Pyralidae, by W. Warren. Aspidiotus bicari- 

 natus, a lepidopterous larva, by E. E. Green. 



The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, vol. v. 

 No. 3. — On new and little-known butterflies from the Indian region, with 

 descriptions of three new genera of Hesperidse, by Lionel De Nic^ville 

 (with two plates). On new and little-known Hymenoptera from India, 

 Burma and Ceylon, by Major C. T. Bingham (with two plates). Notes 

 on the larvae and pupae of some of the butterflies of the Bombay Presi- 

 dency, by J. H. Davidson and E. H. Aitken (three plates). Butterflies 

 of the Central Provinces, by J. A. Betham, pt. 3. List of Chin-Lushai 

 butterflies, by Lionel De Nic^ville. The protective coloring of chrysalids, 

 by A. W. Morris. 



The Canadian Record of .Science, vol. iv, No. 4. — A new Canadian 

 Platynus-P. hornii, by T. Hansen, fig. on p. 236. 



M.\thematische und Naturwissenschaftliche Berichte aus Un- 

 garn, vii (June, 1888-October, 1889), 1890. — A. Mocsary prints (in Ger- 

 man) the introduction to his Monographia Chrysididarum Orbis Terrarum 

 Universi. 



L'Auxn.iAiRE (Amiens), October, 1890. — The wax of the cochineal 

 insect, by E. Andr^. 



Compte-Rendu. Societe Entomologique de Belgique, Nov. 8, 1890. 

 — Three unpublished Psychids from southeastern Africa,* by F. J. M. Hey- 

 laerts. Megalodon Blanchardi;^ r\. sp., by C. Brongniart. Description 

 of a new species of Elaterid of the genus Chalcolepidius, by E. Candeze; 

 C. pistorius, Honduras. Description of a new species of Elaterid of the 

 genus Adiaphorus (Candeze),* by G. Dumont. Note on the Hydrocan- 

 thares of Chota-Nagpore,* by G. Severin. Diagnoses of some new Co- 

 leoptera from the Congo,* by A. Duvivier; Bangalaia, n. gen. of Proso- 

 poceridae. 



* Contains new species other than North American. 



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