1896.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 53 



America, C. H. T. Townsend. Note on Smerinthus cerysii Kirby, F. L. 

 Harvey. 



19. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia, 1895, pt. 3 [Extract]. — Synopsis of the North American species 

 of Gorytes Latr., W. J. Fox. 



20. University of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Bulletin viii, 4. —The Chinch Bug, C. E. Chamblis. 



21. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift herausgegeben von 

 der Gesellschaft Iris zu Dresden, Jhg., 1895, 2es lepidopterolog- 

 isches Heft (Iris, Dresden, Bd. viii, H. 2). — Descriptions of new Lepid- 

 ■optera from Tibet, O. Staudinger. On Lepidoptera from UHassutai, ibid. 

 New exotic butterflies, ibid. 



22. Ento.mologische Nachrichten, xxi, Heft 23 and 24. — Ethiopian 

 Heterocera, ii, F. Karsch. Corrections on species of Agrias, O. Staud- 

 inger. 



23. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, 1895. — The Mexican cotton 

 boll weevil. The San Jos6 scale. Appearance of insect pests. 



24. ZooLOGiscHE Jahrbucher. Abtheilung f. Systematik, Geo- 

 ■graphie und Biologie der Thiere, ix, i. — On the morphology and 

 physiology of the ovaries of the worker-ants, E. E. Bickford. 



25. Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 60 Bd., 3 H. — 

 The double-spermatozoa of the Dytiscidse, E. Ballowitz. 



26. Le Naturaliste Canadien, xxii, 12. — The last descriptions of 

 I'Abbe Provancher (cont), Hymenoptera. 



27. Annales of the New York Academy of Sciences, viii, 6-12. — 

 The Arachnida of Colorado, N. Banks. Coleopterological Notices, vi, 

 T. L. Casey. 



28. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, December, 

 1895. — The life-histories of the New York slug caterpillars, H. G. Dyar. 

 On the probable origin, development and diffusion of North American 

 species of the genus Diabrotica, F. M. Webster. Final note on the 

 Platypterygidae, A. R. Grote. A new Datana, H. G. Dyar. Schrank's 

 genera, A. R. Grote. Early stages of some Bombycine caterpillars, A. 

 S. Packard. Preliminary Handbook of the Coleoptera of Northeastern 

 America (cont.), H. F. Wickham. Correction of a misidentification — 

 Attacus splendidus, H. G. Dyar. Egg-capsules of Chrysochus auratus 

 (Fab.), J. L. Zabriskie. 



29. Review. There has recently appeared from the press of MacMillan 

 & Co. (London and New York) Volume V of the Cambridge Natural 

 History series with the modest title of "Peripatus, etc." which certainly 

 deserves the careful perusal of all students of the articulata. 



The book begins with a scheme of classification (to be continued in a 



