300 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [DeC 



SOT), J. On Calinai/a, the single genus of an aberi-ant sub- 

 family of butterflies, 118. 



Hymenoptera.— A 1 f k e n, J . 1). The Xylocopn species of the 

 Hawaiian Islands, not X (uneipenms DeG , but X, chloroptera 

 Lep., 41. -C a m e r o n , P . Description of a genus and species* 

 probably representing a new tribe of Hymenoptera from Chili, 118* 

 — C o c k e r e 1 1 . T . D . A • The species of the bee genus Diev- 

 «ow/«,* 9.— F o r e 1 , A. Hymeuoptera. vol. iii, pp. 1-80, pis. 

 i-iii.* [Foi'micidae, Myrmicidae] 15 ; Letter from Faisons [North 

 Carolina, dated July 28, 1899, containing observations on ants], 35. — 

 Fox, W . J • Contributions to a knowledgeof the Hymenoptera 

 of Brazil, No. 7 : Euraenidae (genera Zethus, Labus, Zeihofdes, Eu- 

 onenes, Montezmnm and Nortoni'a) I.— Kouow, F W. New 

 Tenth red inidje from South America, 41. — Paulcke, W- Ou 

 the question ot the parthenogeuetic origin of the drones {Apfsmelli- 

 fca male), figs., ixiiatomischer Anzeiger, Jena, Oct. 5, '99. — 

 Plateau, F . See the General Subject. 



Insects. Paist U. Ilymenoptei-a continued (Tubulifera and Acu- 

 leata), Coleoptera. Strepsiptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Aphaniptera. 

 Thysanoptera, Hemiptera, Anoplura. By David Sharp, London - 

 Macmillau and Co., Limited. New York : The Macmillau (. o. 1899, 

 8vo, pp. xii. 626: 293 figs. Peceived from John Wanamaker. 



This, the sixth volume of the Cambridge Natural History, edited 

 by S. F. Harmer and A. E. Shipley, concludes the account of the 

 insects begun in Vol. V. This latter, published in 1895, dealt with 

 Peripatus and the Myriapods by different authors, and devoted 483 

 pages to a general account of Insects and of the orders Aptera, 

 Orthoptera, Neuroptera (in the wide sense), and the Hymenoptera 

 Sessili vent res and Petiolata-Pai-asitica. 



Those who know Dr, Sharp's previous volume need only be told 

 that the present one is truly a coutimiatioH. By its completion we 

 have now an excellent series ot modern books of reference, none of 

 which deals Avitii precisely the same aspect of entomology, although 

 they must and do repeat many facts of primary impoi'tance. Thus 

 for a genei-al sketch we have Carpenter's "Insects, their structure 

 and life," noticed in the November News, for an introduction to 

 taxonomy Comstock's "Manual;" Packard's "Text Book of Ento- 

 mology " is a store house for anatomy and physiology ; Smith's 

 "Economic Entomology" presents the applied science; while 

 Sharp s "Insects'' deeply interests us by the prominence which is 

 given to habit&. 



Probably most persons will be puzzled, like ourselves, at the order 

 in which the different groups of insects are discussed by Dr. Sharp, 

 In a general way that order corresponds to increasing complexity, 

 but the position of the Hymenoptera in pai'ticular seems abnormal. 



As our readers may be interested in having presente<i to them au 



