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Prof. C. H. T. TowNSEND, curator of the Institute of Jamaica at King- 

 ston, has recently been elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society of 

 London. 



We have just received the great work on the Proctotrypidae of North 

 America by Mr. W. H. Ashmead, of the Department of Agriculture at 

 Washington. D. C. Nearly 700 species are treated. It is a work of nearly 

 300 pages. It will be noticed later in the literary review. 



The recent addition to the fine collection of Mr. B. Neumoegen, of 

 New York, will run up into many thousands of specimens from all parts 

 of the world. 



Identification of Insects (Imagos) for Subscribers. 



Specimens will be named under the following conditions : ist, The number of species 

 to be llmitad to twenty-five for each sending; 2d, The sender to pay all expenses of trans- 

 portation and the insects to become the property of the American Entomological Society ; 

 3d, Each specimen must have a number attached so that the identification may be an- 

 nounced accordingly. Exotic species named only by special arrangement with the Editor 

 who should be consulted before specimens are sent. Send a 2 cent stamp with all insects 

 for return of names. Before sending insects for identification, read page 41, Vol. IIL 

 Address all packages to Entomological News, Academy Natural Sciences, Logan 

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Entomological Litera.tu.re. 



Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, Ixi, i. Paris, 

 July 20, 1892. — On the American Oestridae, whose larvae live in the skin 

 of man, Dr. R. Blanchard, figs. Study of the cavernicolous Arthropods 

 of the island of Luzon: Coleoptera, A. Raffray; Orthoptera, I. Bolivar; 

 Arachnida, E. Simon. — 2, Oct. 12, 1892. Contribution to the microscopic 

 study of the larval nervous system of Strationiys longicortiis Sc, F. 

 Henneguy and A. Binet, i pi. — 3, Dec. 28, 1892. New, or little-known 

 Diptera, J. M. F. Bigot. — 4, April 28, 1893. Revision of the Pselaphidae 

 of Sumatra, A. Raffray, i pi. Additional notes on the American Oestridae, 

 whose larvae live in the skin of man, R. Blanchard (pp: ccix, ccxlvi). 



AcTES DE L.\ Societe Linneenne de Bordeaux, xlv, 1893. — On the 

 habits of some Hymenoptera of Provence of the genus Osmia Panzer, C. 

 Ferton. On artificial fecundation of Cantharus grisetis, M. Kunstler. 



Annals of the New York Academy ok Sciences, viii, 1-3, July, 

 1893. — The Myriapoda collected by the United States Eclipse Expedition 

 to West Africa 1889 and 1890, O. F. Cook and G. N. Collins, 2 pis. 

 Studies on the life-histories of some Bombycine moths, with notes on the 

 setae and spines of certain species, A. S. Packard. 



The British Naturaist. London, October, 1893.— British spiders 

 (cont.). Rev. F. O. P. Cambridge. 



