l8o ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [JunC, 



■ Identification of Insects (Imagos) for Subscribers. 



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Entomological Liter a.ttJ.re. 



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. Annales de LA SociETE Entomologique de Belgique, T. xl, 2. 

 — New species of Thysanoptera, E. Bergroth. New Curculionidae from 

 British East Africa, J. 'Faust. 



2. Journal ok the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, xviii 

 — The probable origin and diffusion of Blissus leucopteriis and Mtir- 

 gantia histrionica, F. M. Webster. 



3. Entomologische Nachrichten, xxii, H. 6. — Some new Cetonidae, 

 G. Schoch. 



4. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, April, 1896. — On an 

 intermediate "Aonidiform" stage in Aspidioius, E. E. Green. On the 

 grouped abdominal glands of the Diaspinae, ibid. 



5. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, April, 

 1896. — Tabulation of the subgenera included in Apatela, Hb., with their 

 respective types, A. R. Grote. Larval genera and subgenera in Apatela, 

 ibid. On the genera in the Apatelidae (= Acronyctidae). 



6. Transactions of the Horticultural Society of Central 

 Illinois, vol. xxix (new series) [Extract]. — Insects beneficial to horti- 

 culture, W. G. Johnson. 



7. Nineteenth Report of the State Entomologist of Illinois, Appendix 

 [Extract]. — The Mediterranean flour moth {Ephestia kuehniella Zell.), 

 W. G. Johnson. 



8. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, April, 1896. — Notes 

 on some Ethiopian species of Ischnurinae . . . , R. I. Pocock. On the 

 genus Dadylipalpus Chapuis, and two new genera of Scolytidae from 

 Africa, W. F. H. Blandford. 



9. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (2), vi, 

 [Extract].— New Mallophaga, I . . . , V. L. Kellogg. 



