189I.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 167 



TrAVAUX DE LA SOCIETE DES NaTURALISTES A. L'UnIVERSITE ImPE- 



RiALE DE Kharkovv, xxiv, 1891. — List of the Evaniidae found in the gov- 

 ernment of Kharkow, by W. A. Jarochewsky. 



West American Scientist, vol. vii, No. 61. — New Bombylidce from 

 California, by D. W. Coquillett. Lordotus junceus n. sp., L. diversus 

 n. sp., Toxophora vasta n. sp. 



Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 

 vol. xxiii, 1890. — Further Coccid notes, with descriptions of new species 

 from New Zealand, Australia and Fiji, by VV. M. Maskell. The habits 

 and life-history of the New Zealand Glowworm, by G. V. Hudson. On 

 New Zealand Cicadce, by G. V. Hudson. A few words on the Codlin- 

 moths Carpocapsa pomonella and Caccecia excessana, by G. V. Hudson. 

 New species of Lepidoptera, by E. Meyrick. On new species of Aranese, 

 by A. T. Urquhart. On the occurrence oi Danais archippus and Sphinx 

 convolvuli (?) in Nelson, by R. I. Kingsley. 



The Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. xxiii. No. 146. — On the 

 tongues of the British tiymenoptera Anthophila, by Edward Saunders. 

 Vol. XX, Nos. 124-25. — Notes on the zoology of Fernando Noronha, by 

 H. N. Ridley. Insects, excepting Coleoptera, by W. F. Kirby. Coleop- 

 tera, by C. O. Waterhouse. 



Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, September 9. — Entomological 

 notes from Port Darwin, by J. J. Walker. Larva of Eupoecilia geyeriana, 

 by N. M. Richardson. New genera of Agdistidae and Pterophoridae, by 

 Lord Walsingham. Notes on British and exotic Coccidae, by J. W. 

 Douglas. Above paper describes two new species, Orthezia occidetitalis 

 from Colorado, and Orthezia prce/otiga from Trinidad. On two species 

 of Elcatis found in Japan, by S. Lewis. Notes on food-plants of Thecla 

 rtcbi, by R. M. Prideux. Stenophylax alpestris in Yorkshire, by G. T. 

 Porritt. Nothochrysa capitata near Weymouth, by N. M. Richardson. 

 Dufourea milgaris at Cobham Surrey, by E. Saunders. Various captures 

 in June and July, by C. W. Dale. On oviposition and ovipositor in certain 

 Lepidoptera, by John H. Wood. 



The E.ntomologist, vol. xxiv. No. 338. — Cucullia verbasci and its 

 allies (witli plate), by Richard South. A preliminary list of the insect 

 fauna of .Middlesex, by T. D. A. Cockerell. Entomology of Granada 

 and its neighborhood, by F. A. Walker. Contributions to the chemistry 

 of insect colors, by F. H. P. Coste. Notes, news, captures, etc. Doings 

 of societies. 



Obituary. — The death is announced of Mr. Ferdinand Grut, F.L.S., 

 who was at one time vice-president of the Entomological Society of Lon- 

 don, and also occupied other important positions in the Society at various 

 times. 



