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Identification of Insects (Imagos) for Subscribers. 



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

 to be limited to twenty-five for each sending; 2d, The sender to pay all expenses of trans- 

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

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

 nounced accordingly. Exotic species named only by special arrangement with the Editor, 

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Entomological Literatuire. 



Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North 

 and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology, unless monographs, or con- 

 taining descriptions of new genera, will not be noted. Contributions to the anatomy of 

 insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species will be recorded. 



1. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, xix, 

 pt. 2. — Notes on Victorian and other Blattariae and descriptions of new 

 species, J. G. O. Tepper. Descriptions of new genera and species of 

 Australian Coleoptera, T. Blackburn. 



2. Mittheilungen aus DEM RoEMER-MusEU.M, Hildesheim, No. 3. — 

 The Apatelidae, A. R. Grote. 



3. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, xvii. 

 — Some peculiarities of the mouth-parts and ovipositor of Cicada septen- 

 decetn, J. D. Hyatt. 



4. Archives de Biologie, xiv, fasc. 2. — Physiological studies on the 

 Orthoptera, L. Cu^not. 



5. Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, etc., de Dane- 

 mark (D. Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab Skrifter), viii, No. 1. — 

 The lateral organs of the larvae of the Scarabaeidae, F. Meinert. 



6. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 

 1895, pt. 5.— President's address: The Speculative Method in Entomology, 

 R. Meldola. 



7. The International Journal of Microscopy and Natural Sci- 

 ence, pt. 29. — Predaceous and parasitic enemies of Aphides (including a 

 study of hyper-parasites), pt 3, H, C. A. Vine. The origin of insect 

 transformations, G. H. Bryan. 



8. Journal of the Trinidad Field Naturalists' Club, ii, No. ii.- 

 — Description of a new genus and species of Proctotrypid bred by Mr. 

 F. W. Urich from an Embiid, W. H. Ashmead. The cattle fly {Comp- 

 somyia macellaria), C. W. Meaden. 



