1896.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 315 



ures is one of, if not the most interesting and most useful ever issued by 

 the Division. Some thirty species or groups of species found in American 

 (not European) houses are described and figured, and the various reme- 

 dies for their destruction or abatement are given. 



29. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. London, November, 

 1896. — Economic specimens in the insect gallery of the Natural History 

 Museum, South Kensington, C. O. Waterhouse. Oceanic migration of 

 a nearly cosmopolitan dragonfly {Pantala flavescens F.), R, McLachlan. 

 Note on Eristalis tenax in New Zealand, W. W. Smith. Histeridse, etc., 

 associated with owls, J. J. Walker. 



30. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural 

 History, Urbana, 111., iv. Springfield, 111., 1896. — Art. ix. A check list 

 of the Coccidae, T. D. A. Cockerell. Art. xii. On a bacterial disease of 

 the squash-bug {Anasa tristis DeG.), B. M. Duggar, 2 pis. Art. xiii. De- 

 scriptions of five new species of scale insects with notes, W. G. Johnson, 

 6 pis. 



31. Psyche. Cambridge, Mass., November, i89'5. — Notes on the- 

 Acrididae of New England — ii. Tryxalinae — vii, A. P. Morse. New 

 Sminthuri, including myrmecophilous and aquatic species, J. W. Folsom,. 

 I pi. Partial life-history of Halisidota cinctipes Grote, H. G. Dyar. 



32. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, xxiii, 

 3. Philadelphia, July-September, 1896. — On Illinois grouse locusts, J. L. 

 Hancock, 4 pis. A classification of the Geometrina of North America, 

 with descriptions of new genera and species, Rev. G. D. -Hulst, 2 pis. 



33. Rules for regulating Nomenclature with a view to secure a 

 strict application of the law of priority in entomological work. Compiled 

 by Lord Walsingham and John Hartley Durrant. Longmans, Green & 

 Co. London, New York and Bombay. 2 Nov. 1896, 18 pp. Price 6d. 



34. The Entomologist's Record. London, Oct. 15, 1896. — On the 

 hybernation of certain British butterflies in the imago stage, J. W. Tutt. 

 Mimicry — vi. Selection guided by utility at work, id. The habits of Por- 



thetria dispar, id. Nov. i, 1896. — The antennae of Lepidoptera. Their 



structure, functions and evolution, J. W. Tutt. i pi. Nervures, id. Notes 

 on the life history of Papilio machaon, A. Bacot. 



35. MiTTHEILUNGEN DER SCHWEIZERISCHEN ENTOMOLOGISCHEN Ge- 



sellschaft, ix, 8. Schaffhausen, July, 1896. — Note on the tribe of the 

 Embina, H. deSaussure, i pi. On Cetonidae, Dr. G. Schoch. Coleop- 

 tera helvetica (cont), Dr. Stierlin. 



36. On Some Scale Insects. By L. O. Howard (read before the Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society, Feb. 15, 1896). Boston: Press of Rock- 

 well and Churchill, 1896, 15 pp , 4 pis. 



37. Bulletin 116. New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Stations, 

 Sept. 22, 1896. — The pernicious or San Jos^ scale, J. B. Smith, figs. 



