98 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 



European Apanteles parasitic on the cabbage butterfly. In the latter case 

 the only result was the discovery that the insect had been well known in 

 America for fifty years past. So with the Merisus, there are no specific 

 characters to separate nigripes from our well-known M. destructor (Say) 

 and all the species referred to this genus in this country are synonyms. 

 In fact the genus contains but one species. The subgenus Homoporiis 

 was founded upon dessicated or worn specimens, and the other subgenus 

 named by Thomson was similarly founded upon imperfectly developed 

 individuals. I have bred M. destructor Say from the chrysalids of Orgyia 

 leucostigtnaz.\. Hartford; an hitherto unknown host for the species, afford- 

 ing the peculiarity of many (often up to 100) flies emerging from one pupa, 

 whereas in the Hessian Fly each pupa aflfords room for but one parasite- 



Wm. H. Patton, Hartford, Conn. 



Identiflcation of Insects (Imagos) for Subscribers. 



Specimens will be named under the following conditions: 1st, The number of speci- 

 mens to be unlimited for each sending ; 2d, The sender to pay all expenses of transporta- 

 tion 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. III. 

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

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Insects have been named for W. W. Newcomb, W. E. Longley, Geo. 

 Miller, D. S. Harris, W. M. Hill, H. Caracciolo, H. C. Denslow, A. A. 

 Wright, H. E. Weed, W. Metcalfe, A. Sheriff, Frank H. Johnson, A. G. 

 Weeks, Jr. 



Entomological Literatuire. 



To those who can master the German language there is no work pub" 

 lished in recent years which will give greater assistance to the student of 

 Coleoptera than the " Coleoptera of Middle and Southern Europe," by 

 Dr. L. Ganglbauer. The work is filled with useful tables, and abundantly 

 illustrated by well-executed wood-cuts of details, which will be found 

 extremely useful. It would be diflficult to make any adverse criticism, 

 except that based on purely personal opinion, and to this extent his method 

 of separating the tribes of Carabidae seems not that which will enable the 

 student to make the most certain progress. The first volume, containing 

 the Cicindelidae, Carabidae and Dysticidae, is all that has thus far appeared. 



