1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 1 27 



Entomologist (London), April, 1892.— Portrait and sketcii of Henry 

 Walter Bates. Hellebore as an insecticide, W. W. Smith. " Assem- 

 bling" in Lepidoptera, H. D. Sykes. Notes on Lepidoptera taken in 

 1 891, Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge. Notes on British Lepidoptera, Me- 

 lanippe, R. South. Notes on the synonymy of Noctuid Moths, A. G. 

 Butler. Descriptions of some new species of Phytophagous Coleoptera 

 and synonymic notes,* M. Jacoby. 



SociETE LiNNEENNE Du NoRD DE LA FRANCE (Amiens), No. 232, Oc- 

 tober, 1891.— Contributions to the local fauna (Arachnida), M. Du Roselle. 



Zoological Record for 1890. — Published by the Zoological Society, 

 London, 1892. Insecta by D. Sharp. Arachnida and Myriapoda by R. 

 L Pocock. 



NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED 

 IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE. 



COLEOPTERA. 



Nine n. sp. Rhipidophorus, Nemognatha, Zotiiiis, Mex., Centr. Am., 

 Champion, Biol. Centr. Amer., Coleop. iv, pp. 361-368. Phytopbaga, 

 n. genera and species, Jacoby, id., vi, suppl., pp. 281-312. 



Zygops {Apatorhyttchus) leopardinus des Loges, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 

 XXXV, p. 40, Mex. 



Ama7'a femoralis Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, p. 30. A. robusfula, 

 p. 32, Calif A. iiupera, p. 33, Col., N. Mex. A. iinitatrix, p. 34, Calif., 

 Wash., Vancouver. Trechus barbara;, p. 41, Calif Platyims inyrme- 

 codes, arizonensis, languidus, p. 42, Ariz. Pitiodyfes Hamiltoni, p. 45, 

 Pa. P. piisio, p. 45, Cal. Dendrophiliis californicus, p. 46, Cal. Aula- 

 coscelis purpurea, p. 46, Ariz. Notoxiis Schwarzi, p. 47, Utah. 



DIPTERA. 



Syrphidse: n. gen., sp. and synopses of genera, Williston, Biol. Centr.- 

 Anier. Diptera, III, pp. 1-72. 



One new genus (Clistoniorpha) and ten new species of Tachinidae, U. 

 S., Townsend, Can. Ent. x.xiv, pp. 77-82. 



Hceniatobia aids, Snow, 22d Rep. Ent. Soc. Ont., p. 96, Minn. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



Cercopales Stretchii, Fox, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, p. 52, Cal. 



Nematus borealis Marlatt, Proc. Acad. Phila. 1892, p. 133, Disco Is. 



Ichneumon disccensis Fox, Proc. Acad. Phila 1892, p. 134, Disco Is. 



Notopygus america?ia Harrington, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 98, Prionopoda 

 canadensis p. 98, Ischyrocnemis otiawaensis p. 98, Pimp/a ellopia: p. 99, 

 Can. 



• Contains new species other than North American. 



