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Identification of Insects (Imagos) for Subscribers. 



Specimens will be named under the following conditions: ist, The number of speci- 

 mens to be unlimited for each sending; 2d, The sender to pay all expenses of transporta- 

 tion and the insects to become the property of the American Entomological Society ; 

 3d, Each specimen must have a number attached so that the identification maybe an- 

 nounced accordingly. Address all packages to Entomological News, Academy Natural 

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Entomological Liter atuire. 



Lepidopter.\ Heterocera in the British Museum parts. — Illustrations 

 of typical specimens of Lepidoptera- Heterocera in the collection of the 

 British Museum. The Lepidoptera-Heterocera of the Nilgiri district, bj- 

 George Francis Hampson, 144 pp. plates 139 to 156. Tliese are fine col- 

 ored lithographic plates, and contain many figures. 



The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, vol. viii. No. 45. 

 — Descriptions of two new species of Lycaenidse from West Africa, in the 

 collection of Mr. Philip Crowley, by Emily Mary Sharpe. 



Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and 

 Philosophical Society, 1890-91. — Hymenoptera Orientalis; or. Contri- 

 butions to a knowledge of the Hymenoptera of the Oriental zoological 

 region, by P. Cameron. 



Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. hx, pt. 2, Suppl. 

 No. 2. — Catalogue of the Insecta of the Oriental region. No. 4, Order 

 Coleoptera, Families Dytiscidie, Gyrinidae, Paussidae, Hydrophilidae, Sil- 

 phidse, Corylophidae, Scydmaenidae, Pselaphidae, Staphylinidae. Vol. Ix, 

 part 2, No. I. A list of butterflies of Engano, with some remarks on the 

 Danaidae, by William Doherty, Cincinnati, U. S. A. New and rare Ly- 

 caenidae, by William Doherty. 



The Report of the State Horticultural Association of Penn- 

 sylvania contains "A pen sketch (with portrait) of Dr. S. S. Rathvon, 

 Professor of Entomology," by T. W. Goding, Rutland, 111. 



On a Bacterial Disease by S. A. Forbes, Ph. D. (reprint from the 

 " North American Practitioner," September, 1891.) The paper describes 

 the internal anatomy of the chinch bug Blissus leiicopteriis, and gives an 

 account of the Micrococcus insectorimi which is found in the alimentarv' 

 canal. This subject of bacterial disease is a very interesting and impor 

 tant one not only to the economic entomologist, but to the general 

 bacteriologist. 



Le Naturaliste (Paris), Sept. i, 1891.— Some different galls produced 

 by Acarines on vegetables, by M. Menegaux, figs. Description of a new 

 Hecatera, by P. Dognin. 



