270 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. {NoV 



of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum at Honolulu- Ed- 

 ited by David Sharp, vol. 1, part ii, pp. 123--75, pis. iii-vii- 

 Cambridge, University Press, June 8, '99. — M o o r e , F. Lepi- 

 doptei-a Indica, partxxxix Loudon, Lovell Reeve & Co., '99 Rec'd. 

 Sept. 28. [Pp.'33-64, pis. 303-308. Vol. 4 Nymphalinae-Limenitina.] 

 — R othschild, W. and Jordan,K. A monograph of 

 Charaxes and the allied prionopterous genera (cont.), figs Novi- 

 tates Zoologicae, vi, 2^ Ti-ing, Aug. 15, '99 — S c h a u s , W. New 

 species of Lithosiidae from tropicxl America,* 6. -Schwartze, 

 E. To knowledge of the development of the gut of Lepidop- 

 tera, 4 pis., Zeitschrift fur Wisseuschaftliche Zoologie, Ixvi, 3, Leip- 

 sic, Sept. 22, '99. Smith, J. B. New species of nocturnal 

 mothsof the genus Campometra and notes,* 50, No. 1184.— Ste ven- 

 s o n, C. Chlorippe celtis Bd.-Lec. captured on Montreal Islands 

 4.— Stic he 1, H. Critical remarks on the specific detei'mina- 

 tion of butterflies, i, Catonephele and iVesscea Hbn.. figs , 1 pi., 

 Berliner Entomologische Zeitung. xliv, 1-2, July, '99. — We y mer 

 Gr . Papilio orthosllaMs, n sp., 41, July. 



Hymenoptera . — Ashmead, W. H. Classification of the ento- 

 raophilous wasi)S, or the superfamily Sphegoidea, v, 4.— B u r g e r- 

 stein, A. Plants and Ants, Wiener IllustrirteGxrten-Zeitung, 

 Aug.andSept.,'99.— C o c k er e I 1, T. D. A. The Panm\gine 

 bee8,5: See also Coleoptera.— F o w 1 e r, C. The Habropoda and 

 Didasia of California,* 4 — F r i e s e , H . Monograph of the bee 

 genera Meqacilissa, Caupolicana, Diphaglossa and Oxcua, 64. — 

 J a n et, C . See Boutan L. aud Janet C- in the General Subject. — 

 Konow, F.W. New South American Tenthredinidfe, 60.— 

 K r i e g e r , R . On some Ichneumonid genera allied to P/mpla, 

 1 pi.. Sitzungsberichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschatt, Leipsic, 

 '97-'98. Rec'd Oct. '99- — P e r e z , J . Three new Megachile from 

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 habits of Psithprus, 8 . 



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Insects, Their Structure and Life. A Primer of Entomology . 



By George H. Carpenter, B. Sc. Lond AssistantNaturalist in 



the Science aud Art Museum, Dublin Loudon: J M. Dent & 



Co., 29 and 30 Bedford street, W. C. 1899. 12mo Pp. xii, 404. 

 183 figs in the text. Furnished by the New York publishers, the 

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