1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 69 



Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard 

 College, xxii, 3, Cambridge, January, 1892.— Amitosis in the embryonal 

 envelops of the scorpion, H. P. Johnson, 3 plates. 



Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College Experiment 

 Station, Bulletin No. 17.— Insects injurious to stored grain, H. E. Weed. 

 December, 1891. 



Transactions of the American Entomological Society, xviii, 4, 

 September-December, 1891.— The species oi Agrilus of Boreal America, 

 G. H. Horn, M.D., i pi. On a collection of Hymenoptera made in 

 Jamaica during April, 1891, W. J. Fox. Notes on North American 

 Tachinidae sens. str. with descriptions of new genera and species, C. H. 

 Tyler Townsend. 



NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED 

 IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE. 



NEUROPTERA. 

 Ptynx furciger McLachlan, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., '91, p. 509. Ariz. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 

 Albuna modesta Kellicott, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 46. Ohio. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



Aulax nabali Brodie, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 13. Ontario. 



Cephus occidentalis Riley and Marlatt, Insect Life, iv, p. 177. Cala. 



Acoloides emertonii Howard, Insect Life, iv, p. '202. 



Braconfurtivus Fyles, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 35. 



Pompilus propmquus Fox, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii, p. 339; P. czneo- 

 purpureus, p. 339; Salius opacifrons, p. 340; Agenia compressa, p. 340; 

 Planiceps euferalis, p. 341; Epeolus riifoclypeus, p. 344; Megachile Mar- 

 imdalei, p. 344; M. multidens, p. 345; M. pedalis, p. 347; all from Jamaica. 



ORTHOPTERA. 

 Xiphidium Scudderi Blatchley, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 26. Indiana. 

 Apithes McNeiUi Blatchley, 1. c. p. 27. Indiana. 

 Pezottettix hoosieri Blatchley, 1. c. p. 31. Indiana. 



DIPTERA. 



Bertsmyia n. gen., Stratiomyida;, Giglio-Tos, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. 

 Comp. Aniv. Torino, vi, 108, p. 2, fig. Type Beris aniericana Bellardi. 



Rhopalosyrphus, p. 3, figs.; Oniegasyrphus, p. 4, figs.; Megamepoton, 

 p. 5, figs., n. gen. Syrphidae, Giglio-Tos, 1. c. Types to be hereafter 

 described. 



