1896.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 89 



iind spider architecture, illustrations of which are in plenty, is skilfully 

 seized to illustrate the pitfalls, forts and ambuscades set up by the Pixies. 

 The work is fully illustrated, the pictures of spider architecture being 

 valuable from a scientific standpoint, while others more calculated to 

 please the juvenile mind are not wanting. Old Farm Fairies is a pleasing 

 book, quite worthy of the author of "The Tenants of an Old Farm." — F. 



2. Annales de l.a Societe Entomologique de Belgiql'e, T. xxxix, 

 12. — New Hemiptera of the Section Hydrocorisae Latr., A L. Montandon. 

 New Bolivian Lathridiidae, R. P. Belon. 



3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, No. 97.— On the 

 Coccinellidas of Japan, G. Lewis. Descriptions of new species of butter- 

 flies of the genus Calasticta in the British Museum, A. G. Butler. New 

 genera and species of Pyralidae, Thyrididge and Epiplemidae (cont.), W. 

 Warren. 



4. The Canadian Entomologist, xxviii, i. — William H. Edwards, 

 C. J. S. Bethune. The " Bombyces," what are they? H. G. Dyar; Con- 

 cerning Feltia and other matters, j. B. Smith. List of Hymenoptera 

 taken at Sudbury, Ontario, J. D. Evans. The Mediterranean flour moth, 

 Ephcstia kueJmiella Zeller, still in Canada, W. G. Johnson. Aspidiotus 

 perniciosus Comstock, and Aonidia fusca Maskell. A question of iden- 

 tity or variation, W. M. Maskell. On Agrotis tritici Linn., ab. S7ib- 

 gothica Haw., and Agrotis jaculif era Gn , J. W. 'I'utt. Exomalopsis, a 

 neotropical genus of bees in the Uiiited States, T. D. A. Cockerel!. 



5. Berichte der Naturforschenden gesellshaft zu Freiburg, 

 i,.l>., ix, H. 2. — On the nerve terminations of the dermal sense organs 

 of the Arthropoda, after treatment with the methyl-blue and chrome- 

 silver methods, O. vom Rath. 



6. ZoOLOGiscHER Anzeiger, No. 493. — Can Diplopoda climb on per- 

 pendicular glass partitions ?, C. Verhoeff. 



7. The Geological Magazine, London, No. 379. — European species 

 of Etoblatt'ina . . . , S. H. Scudder. 



8. Bulletin from the Laboratories of Natural History, Stat^ 

 University of Iowa, iii, No. 4 [Extract]. — A list of some Coleoptera 

 from the northern portions of New Mexico and Arizona, H. F. Wickham. 



9. Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (En- 

 tonitjlogical Division), Bulletin No. 107. — W^ire worms and the bud moth, 

 M. V. Slingerland. Ibid, No. 108. — The Pear Psylla and the New York 

 rii:m Scale, M. V. Slingerland. 



10. Geological Survey of Canada: Contributions to Canadian Palaeon- 

 tology, ii, pt. I. — Canadian fossil insects, S. TL Scudder. 



11. Anxales de la Societe Linneenne de Lyon, T. xli (1894). — 

 Nests and metamorphoses of insects. Fifth Memoir, Capt. Xambeu. 



