1898.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 49 



vol. i, 1769-1771, there is a paper entitled, " Observations concerning the 

 Fly-Weevil, tnat destroys the Wheat ; with some useful Discoveries and 

 Conclusions, concerning the propagation and progress of that pernicious 

 Insect, and the Methods to be used for Preventing the destruction of 

 Grain by it. By Colonel Landon Carter, of Sabine Hall, Virginia, com- 

 municated by Colonel Lee, of Virginia." Pp. 208-217. Following this 

 paper is a report on the "Same Subject, by the Committee on Husbandry." 

 Pp. 218-224. Pages 224-230 are taken up with observations on the native 

 Silk Worms of North America, by Moses Bartram, which was read before 

 the Society March 11, 176S. A letter of economic interest is printed on 

 page 243, and is entitled, " Extract of a Letter from Mr. Peter Miller, of 

 Ephratah, to Mr. Charles Thomson, on the time of sowing pease, so as 

 to preserve the Crop from being Worm-eaten." A second edition of this 

 volume is dated 1789. Volume II of the same publication, dated 1786, 

 contains one article relating to entomology ; it is entitled, "The whole 

 Process of the Silk-Worm, from the Egg to the Cocon (sic), communica- 

 ted to Dr. John Morgan, Physician at Philadelphia, in two Letters from 

 Messrs. Hare and Skinner, Silk Merchants in London, July 27, 1774, and 

 February 24, 1775." Pp. 347-366 In 1799, Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D., 

 published his " Fragments of the Natural History of Pennsylvania." 

 Of this work but one part seems to have been issued ; this is devoted 

 primarily to the birds of Pennsylvania, but there are also observations on 

 other animals. The concluding pages contain some notes on noxious 

 insects. It is of interest to know that all these papers were published in 

 Philadelphia.— William J. Fox. 



Entomological Literature. 



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 t 

 physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic 

 species, will be recorded. The numbers in h*-avy-faced type refer to the journals, as 

 numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published; * denotes that the 

 paper in question contains descriptions of new North American forms. 



4. The Canadian Entomologist, London, Ont., Jan., '98 — 5. Psyche, 

 Cambridge, Mass., Jan., '98. — 6. Journal of the New York Entomological 

 Society, December, '97. — 8. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 

 London, Jan., '98.-9. The Entomologist, London, Jan., '98. — 11. The 

 Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London, Dec, '97. — 12. 

 Comptes Rendus. L'Academie des Sciences, Paris, '97. — 13. Comptes 

 Rendus. Societe de Biologie, Paris, '97.— lo. Biologia Centrali-Amer- 

 icana, part cxxxviii, London, Nov., '97. — 22. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 

 Leipsic, Dec. 13, '97.— 25. Bolletino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia 

 Comparata d. R. Universita di Torino, 1897.— 36. Transactions of the 



