254 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



EECENT LITEKATURE. 



E. P. Felt. Insects Injurious to Forest Trees. (1898, Fourth Ann. Rep. 

 Coramiss. Fisheries, &c., of New York, pp. 1-31 [? sep. pag.] . 

 Plates 1-3 and 11, text-figures, &c.). 



Although dated 1898, copies of this valuable paper have only 

 recently arrived in London. It consists of a report on the insects 

 injurious to maple-trees, the following species being discussed, viz. 

 Notolophus leucostirpna, Clisiocampa disstria, Zeuzera pyi-ina, and Sesia 

 acerni [Lepid.] ; Plarjionotus speciosus and Elaphidion villosnm [Coleopt.] ; 

 and the Coccid Pulvinnria innumerahiJis. Of these the life-history, 

 habits, distribution, natural enemies, and remedies against their depre- 

 dations are discussed, with coloured illustrations of the various stages 

 of the pests and of their operations, with text-figures of their foes, and 

 various other details. 



Of special interest to the workers who limit their energies to palfe- 

 arctic forms will be the account of the " leopard-moth " [Zeuzera pyrina), 

 an accidental introduction into America, the earliest authentic record 

 there being as recent as 1882. Twelve years later it was characterized 

 as "one of the worst insects we have to contend with." Limited at 

 present to New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, &c., it will doubtless 

 rapidly extend its distribution, especially in a northerly direction. It 

 has been recorded as attacking eighty-three species of trees and shrubs, 

 elms and maples suffering most severely, and in Central Park almost 

 every species of tree and shrub, except evergreens, was injured to some 

 extent. 



The Report is prepared in the thorough and lucid manner usual 

 with the entomologists of New York State Museum, and the three 

 coloured plates and the plain figures — three of which are full-page, 

 representing a spraying outfit in operation, a defoliate sugar orchard, 

 and details of the hymenopteron Thalessa lunator — are all well executed. 



G. W. K. 



W. A. Luff. The Insects of Alderney (Trans. Guernsey Soc. Nat. Sci. 

 1899, pp. 1-23 [sep. copy ?] ). 



Five hundred and nineteen species are now recorded from this in- 

 teresting island, consisting of 138 Lepidoptera, 64 Rhynchota, 143 

 Coleoptera, 113 Hymenoptera, 45 Diptera, 4 Trichoptera, 7 Orthoptera, 

 and 5 " Neuroptera " ; so that additions will probably be made among 

 the Homoptera, Diptera, and smaller Hymenoptera. 



23 Lepidoptera, 10 Rhynchota, 15 Coleoptera, 31 Hymenoptera, 

 and 2 others — a total of 81 — are noticed as not occurring in Guernsey, 

 but no comparison is made with Jersey. Among the insects not found 

 in Britain may be noted Eubolia peribolata (Lep.), LygoRus panctato- 

 guttatus (Rhynch.), Ehizotrogus cestivus and Cryptocephalusvittatiis (Col.) 

 AndrenaflesscB and two Ichneumonidas (Hym.). 



We trust that Mr. Luff will shortly prepare a work on the Insect- 

 Fauna of the Channel Isles, in which he will include a map of the 

 islands, and tabular comparisons of the faunas of the various islands 

 inter se, and with the South of England and Normandy. 



G. W. K. 



