150 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, 



Brathinus, H. G. Hubbard. A peculiar structural feature of the Elasmina;, 

 L. O. Howard. A parasitic Scolytid. E. A. Schwarz. The curious de- 

 fenses constructed by Melipona and Trigona, F. Benton. Note on the 

 ovipositor of some species of Donacia, E. A. Schwarz, tigs. Degenera- 

 tion by disuse of certain organs in spiders, G. Marx. A synopsis of the 

 Spalangiinae of North America, VV. H. Ashmead. Note on the Coruco, 

 a hemipterous insect which infests poultry in southern New Mexico, C. 

 H. T. Townsend. Descriptions of two Rhynchophorous Coleoptera from 

 semi-tropical Florida, E. A. Schwarz. Notes upon wasps — i, W. H. Pat- 

 ton. Synopsis of the North American species of Toxoneura Say, W. H. 

 Ashmead. Continuation of the life-history of the whip-tail scorpion, G. 

 Marx. Notes on the family Pachylommatoideae, W. H. Ashmead. The 

 Death's-head moth in relation to honey bees, F. Benton. Further notes 

 on Lachnostenia, C. V. Riley. Notes on Coccidae, id. 



15. Transactions of the City of London Entomological and 

 Natural History Society for the year 1893 (1894). — This volume, with 

 those for 1891 and 1892, has been received within the past month, their 

 first appearance, to our knowledge, in Philadelphia. Their contents, of 

 course, mainly concern British insects, while such papers as have a gen- 

 eral bearing have been already published in the Entomologist's Record. 

 One looks in vain in these volumes for an index or table of contents. 



16. CoMPTES Rendus. L'Academie des Sciences. Paris, Feb. 26, 

 1894. — Anatomy of the salivary glands of the Philantidte, M. Bordas. 

 Researches on the anatomy and development of the male genital armor 

 of Lepidoptera, M. Peytoureau. — March 19. Anatomy of the tracheal 

 system of the larvae of Hymenoptera, M. Bordas. 



17. The British Naturalist. New series. No. i. London, Jan. 15, 

 1894. No. 3, March 15. — What constitutes a British insect at the present 

 time? C. S. Gregson. The Pterophorina of Britain (cont.), J. W. Tutt. 

 Air breathing Arthropods, L. Greening, 3 pis. 



18. Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. 

 Bulletin No. 64. Ithaca, N. Y., 1894. — On certain grass-eating insects: 

 A synopsis of the species of Crambus of the Ithaca fauna, E. P. Felt, 

 figs., 14 pis. 



19. BiOLOGiA Centrali-Americana. Part cxiv. London, January, 

 1894.— Arachnida Araneidea, pp. 121-136, O. P. Cambridge. Coleoptera, 

 vol. vi, pt 2, pp. 165-180, pi. V, G. C. Charhpion; vol. vii, pp. 177-192, pi. 

 X, H. S. Gorham, Hymenoptera, vol. ii, pi. xii. Lepidoptera Rhopal- 

 ocera, vol. ii, pp. 329-352, pis. Ixxvii-lxxviii, F. D. Godnianand O. Salvin. 

 Orthoptera, pp. 105-128, pl. vi, H. de Saussure and L. Zehnter.— Part cxv. 

 February, 1894. Coleoptera, vol. vi, pt. 2, pis. vi, vii. Hymenoptera, 

 vol. ii, pp. 257-304, P. Cameron. Lepidoptera Rhopalocera, vol. ii, pis. 

 ixxix, ixxx. Orthoptera, pp. 129-160, pl. vii, H. de Saussure and L. 

 Zehnter. 



