l893-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. I3I 



Psyche, Cambridge, Mass., March, 1893.— Notes on Tachinidae, S. W' 

 Williston. Descriptions of new species and genera of West African Le- 

 pidoptera iii, W. J. Holland, i pi. Orgyia badia Hy. Edw. and other 

 notes, with a table to separate the larvae of Orgyia, H. G. Dyar. Syn- 

 opsis of the North American species of Megacilissa, W. J. Fox. 



The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 

 (2), vii, 2, Sidney, Nov. 22, 1892. — A viviparous Australian Peripatus {P. 

 leuckartii Sang.), J. J. Fletcher. Catalogue of the described Hymenop- 

 tera of Australia, pt. 11, W. W. Froggatt. Further notes on the viviparity 

 of the larger Victorian Peripatus, generally known as P. leuckartii, A. 

 Dendy. 



The Canadian EntomolO(3Ist, London, Ont., March, 1893. — Cana- 

 dian Hymenoptera. No. 3, W. H. Harrington. New Chemetidse from 

 the United States, N. Banks. Descriptions of new Braconids bred by 

 Prof. A. D. Hopkins, W. H. Ashmead. Synopsis of the Asilid genus 

 Dioctria, D. W. Coquillett. Notes from the Cornell Insectary— I. Some 

 results of a trap lantern experiment, M. V. Slingerland. 



The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 

 1892, pt. in. — On some eggs of Hemiptera, Dr. D. Sharp, 2 pis.— On va- 

 riation in the color of cocoons, pupae and larvae; further experiments, W. 

 Bateson. Experiments in 1890 and 1891 on the color relation between 

 certain lepidopterous larvae and their surroundings, together with some 

 other observations on lepidopterous larvae. Miss L. J. Gould, i pi. 



Flowers and Insects — Labiate by Charles Robertson, Trans. Acad. 

 Sci. St. Louis, vi, pp. 101-131, Nov. 25, 1892 — [Orchids], Bot. Gazette, 

 xviii, pp. 47-54, Crawfordsville, Ind., February, 1893. These are the 

 most recent additions to a series of papers with the same title, which Mr. 

 Robertson has contributed to various numbers of the Botanical Gazette, 

 beginning with vol. xiv, p. 120, May, 1889, and to the Transactions of the 

 Academy of Sciences of St. Louis, vol. v. 



Midden-Sumatra. — Reizen en Onderzoekingen der Sumatra-Expeditie, 

 exitgerust door het aardrijkskundig Genootschap, 1877-79, beschreven 

 door le Leden der Expeditie, onder toezicht van Prof. P. J. Veth. Natu- 

 urlijke Historic, door Joh. F. Snelleman. Tweede Deel. Leiden. E. J. 

 Brill, 1892. Forficularia, A. de Bormans. Lepidoptera, P. C. T. Snellen. 

 Diptera, F. M. van der Wulp. Hymenoptera, C. Ritsema Czn and Dr. 

 G. L. Mayr. Hemiptera, W. L. Distant and C. Ritsema Czn. Araneje, 

 Dr. A. W. .M. van Ha.sselt. 



