[iSgi. EXTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. I4I 



Entomological Literature. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History, May, 1891. — Descrip- 

 tions of new genera and species of Pyralidae contained in the British Mu- 

 seum collection, by W. Warren. Descriptions of new species of the cole- 

 opterous genus Oides, by C. J. Gahan. Description of a new genus for 

 the reception of the North American moths hitherto referred to Telcsilla 

 of Herrich-SchJiffer, by A. G. Butler. 



Contributions toward a Monograph of the Noctuid^ of Tem- 

 perate North America. — A revision of the species oi Hadena referable 

 to Xylophasiaand Luperma, by J. B. Smith. — From Proc. U. S. National 

 Museum, vol. xiii, pp. 407-447. 



The Transactions of the Entomological SociETy of London 

 for the year 1891, pt. 2, with 8 plates. — A monograph of the Lyccenid 

 genus Hypochrysops, with descriptions of new species, by Hamilton H. 

 Druce. Notes on the Lepidoptera collected in Madeira, by the late T. 

 Vernon Wollaston, by George T. Baker. Additions to the Carabideous 

 fauna of Mexico with remarks on some of the species previously recorded, 

 H. W. Bates. On the genus Xanthospilopteryx Wallengren, by \\'. F. 

 Kirby. The Rhynchophorous Coleoptera of Japan. Pt. 2, Apionidae and 

 Anthribidae, by Dr. David Sharp. The life-history of the Hessian Fly, 

 Cecidomyia destructor Say, by Fred. Knock. Mimetic resemblances be- 

 tween species of the coleopterous genera Le7ia and Diabrotica, by C. J. 

 Gahan. A list of the Heteromerous Coleoptera collected by J. J. Walker 

 in the region of the Straits of Gibralter, with descriptions of four new 

 species, by G. C. Champion. 



Third Annual Report of the West Virginia Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station. — This contains a valuable report on noxious and 

 beneficial insects of thirty-five pages with two plates, by A. D. Hopkins, 

 entomologist to the station. 



The British Nocture and their v.\rieties, by J. W. Tutt, F. E. S., 

 vol. i, May, 1891, with catalogue of the subclasses, families, genera, spe- 

 cies, varieties and principal subvarieties. This is a work of 164 pages by 

 one who has made a study of the causes of variation in Lepidoptera, a 

 subject which of late has received considerable attention, especially in 

 England. The literature of varieties had been greatly scattered through 

 numerous periodicals and other works published in different countries, 

 and in this volume there are collected together for ready reference by the 

 student. A careful study and comparison of the different forms of a spe- 

 cies can't fail to be very useful in determining their exact limitations and 

 thus help to solve the problem as to what shall be considered a species. 

 The subject of variation is rapidly acquiring a literature of its own, and 

 the author of this work is also the editor of a journal entitled, " The En- 

 tomologist's Record and Journal of Variation." Mr. Tutt is anxious to 

 correspond with any one in this country interested in the subject. 



