40 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February, 



Entomologische Nachrichten, xvi, No. 24, December, 1890. — List 

 of the Lociistodeae of the families Phaneropteridae, Mekonemidje and 

 Gryllakridae, collected by Dr. Paul Preuss at Barombi in German West 

 Africa in 1890 (concluded), by Dr. F. Karsch. On Gomphidae,* ibid.; 

 Neurogomphus, Podogomphus, n. gen. Additions to the Hymenoptera 

 described in No. 21,* by C. Verhoeff. Notes. Literature. As if in con- 

 firmation of certain remarks of the reviewer in the January number (pp. 

 17, 18), Dr. Karsch says, in a foot-note to his article on the Gomphidas, 

 "Since not names alone, but only clear ideas advance science, I here follow 

 the well-weighed works of the monographer Selys and not Kirby, whose 

 .Synonymic Catalogue of the Neuroptera Odonata has already suffered an 



unfavorable criticism from Selys The use of a generfc name 



Aeshna F. (for Gomphus Leach) alongside of Aeschna Illig. should 

 hardly find observance. " 



Rkvue d'Entomologie (Caen), ix. No. 10, October, 1890. — Habits and 

 metamorphoses of insects (concluded), by Capt. Xambeu (Coleoptera). 

 To the knowledge of the Nabidae,* by O. M. Renter; Hoplistoscelis (for 

 N. sericans Rent, and other species from N. America, etc.), Halorabis, 

 Lasionierus, Acatithotiabis, Stenonabis, new subgen. Necrology — E. T. 

 Atkinson, E. Bergroth. Materials for the myrmecological fauna of Sierra 

 Leone (West Africa),* by Ernest Andr^; Psalidomyrmex , n. gen. 



* Contains new species other than North American. 



OBITUARY. 



Owen S. Wilson died at Cwmffrwd, Carmarthen, on August 25th 

 last. He was the author of a work on the Larvae of British Lepidoptera, 

 367 pp., 40 colored plates; published in 1880. 



E. T. Atkinson, Accountant General of Bengal, and President of the 

 Board of Trustees of the Indian Museum, died at Calcutta, September 

 15th. His entomological writings are important and well known, one of 

 the latest being a Catalogue of the Capsidae of the World. 



Entomological News for December was mailed December i, 1S90. 

 " " for January was mailed January 3, 1891. 



