94 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March, 



Die PALiEARKTiscHEN Grossschmetterlinge und ihre Naturges- 

 CHiCHTE, Bearbeitet von Fritz Ruhl. i. Doppel-Lieferung (Lief, i and 2), 

 Leipzig, Ernst Heyne, 1892, 8vo. To be completed in about 75 " Liefer- 

 ungen" at i mark 20 pf. each. This double part contains the general 

 part of 76 pages and the beginning of the descriptions. 



Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vii, pp. 1-44, De- 

 cember, 1892. — Catalogue of the described South American species of 

 Calyptrate Muscidae, C. H. T. Townsend. 



Principles of Zoology. — A Guide for Beginners, by Richard C. 

 Schiedt, professor of Natural Sciences in Franklin and Marshall College, 

 Lancaster, Pa. Lancaster, 1892, i2mo., 310 pp., I1.35. "Based upon 

 the larger text-books of Professors Arnold Lang, Berthold Hatschek 

 and Korschelt and Heider, which present the latest results of morpho- 

 logical research not yet published in the English language. . . . The 

 embryological element preponderates on account of its importance for 

 modern thought in general." — Preface. Tracheate Arthropoda, pp. 180- 

 194, 207-220. 



The Kansas University Quarterly, I, 3, Lawrence, Kan., January, 

 1893.— On the Apioceridae and their allies, S. W. Williston, 2 pis. Dip- 

 tera Brasiliana, III,*t id. 



Rendiconto dell 'Accademia delle Scienze Fisiche e Matem- 

 atiche (2), vi, 7-12, Naples, 1892.— Some effects of the venom of the 

 Tunisian scorpion i^Buthus tunetanus) on man, A. Costa. 



■ Zoologische Jahrbucher, vi, 5, Jena, Dec. 30, 1892.— Observations 

 on butterflies living in water, G. W. Mueller, i pi. On the diflference in 

 time in the appearance of the sexes in butterflies, W. Petersen. Contri- 

 butions to the biology of the Hymenoptera, C. VerhoefT, 2 pis. 



Akchiv fur Naturgeschichte, Iviii, II, 2, Berlin, December, 1892. — 

 Review of the scientific literature on Entomology for the year 1891, P. 

 Bertkau. 



Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1892, 2, Berlin, December. 

 1892. — Hadrosticta nov. gen. Cetonidarmn from Central America near 

 Argyripa lansbergii Sall^, Dr. G. Kraatz, i fig. On the biology of some 

 ant guests, E. Wasmann. 



HoR/E Scientatis Entomologic^ Rossic^ xxvi, 1-2, St. Peters- 

 burg, 1891.— Biology of the coprophagous and necrophagous flies, I, J. 

 Portschinsky; 3-4, 1892. Biology of the Lepidoptera of Russia: III. Color 

 marking and ocellate spots, their origin and development (cont.), J. 

 Portschinsky, 2 pis. 



The Entomologist's Record, London, Jan. 15, 1893.— Life-history 

 of Dasycampa rubiginea, Dr. W. S. Riding. Practical hints on the ar- 

 rangement of our cabinets, A. J. Hodges. 



* Contains new species other than North American. f Contains new genera. 



