276 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October, 



Anatomischer Anzeiger. Jena, Aug. 5, 1893.-011 the remarks of' 

 Dr. Ballowitz concerning the sperm of Djy discus marg^tualts, L. Auerbach. 



Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society. London, 1893, i 

 pt. 4. — Notes on some of the digestive processes in Arachnids, H. M. 

 Bernard, i pi. 



Insect Life, v, 5. Washington, July, 1893.— The present year's ap- 

 pearances of the periodical cicada, Eds. Further notes on Yucca insects 

 and Yucca pollination, C. V. Riley, figs. On the pollination of Yucca 

 whipplei in California, D. W. Coquillett. The cocoanut and guava mealy- 

 wing {Aleurodicus cocois Curtis) Eds., figs. Further notes on the cotton- 

 tail-bot with the breeding and identification of the fly, C. H. T. Townsend. 

 The sugar-beet web-worm {Loxostege sticticalis L.), Eds., figs. Report 

 on a trip to northwest Missouri to investigate locust injuries, H. Osborn. 

 The angoumis grain moth or "fly weevil" {Gelechia cerealella), L. O. 

 Howard. Descriptions of Noctuidae from the Death Valley, J. B. Smith, 

 figs. The red-legged flea beetle {Crepidodera rufipes L.), Eds. figs. 



Verhandlungen der k. k. zoologisch-botanischen Gesell- 

 SCHAFT IN WiEN, xHii, I, March 1893. — On the eye of Scutigera coleop- 

 trata, Dr. T. Adensamer. — 2. July, 1893. On parthenogenesis among 

 spiders, N. Damin. To the knowledge of the Coleopterous genus Tri- 

 chodes Herst., a monographic study, K. Escherich, 2 pis. 



Nature. London, Aug. 24, 1893. — The fungus-gardens of certain 

 South American ants, J. C. Willis [Abstract of Moller's paper, see Ent. 

 News, September, p. 239]. A few remarks on insect prevalence during 

 the Summer of 1893, Miss E. A. Ormerod. 



Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaf- 

 ten, lix, Vienna, 1892. — New species of the genera Phytopsis Duj. and 

 Cecidophyes Nal., A. Nalepa, 4 pis. 



Reports of the United States Commissioners, Universal Exposition. 

 Paris, 1889; vol. v. — On the useful and injurious insects, C. L. Marlatt. 



Review.— Part III of Brauer and Bergenstamm's Monograph of 

 Ti^E Muscaria schizometopa. — The third part of this work has recently 

 appeared (Denkschr. d. Math.-Naturwiss. CI. d. Kais. Akad. d. Wissen- 

 schaft., bd. Ix, Wien, 1893). It contains 152 pages quarto, no plates, and 

 comprises in the main an analytic table of sections, and another of genera. 

 These tables cover 91 pages, and will be of great use in the determination 

 of the genera erected by the authors. The value of the work is enhanced 

 to American students by the fact that the authors have examined the large 

 collection of Tachinidae, etc., of the U. S. National Museum, sent them 

 by Dr. Riley, the results being considered in this part. Following the 

 tables there are 30 pages of notes and descriptions, which number 115 in 

 all, of much use in defining the position of recently described and other 

 genera in the Brauerian system. The numerous genera erected by the 



