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RECENT LITERATURE. 



Les Odonates dii Continent Australien, par M. Rene; Martin, ia the 

 ' Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de France,' toiie xix. 

 p. 220. Paris : 1901. 



In an article extending to tweuty-nine pages M. Martin has given 

 us a concise account of the Australian Dragonflies. Little worked as 

 this region has so far been, still the number of species at least equals 

 those known for Europe, and the number is likely to be added to con- 

 siderably, whereas the tale for Europe is no doubt almost complete. 

 Just as is the case with the higher animals of Australia, so it is with 

 the dragonfly fauna — it has cliaracteristics peculiarly its own, and we 

 are not surprised to find that about a quarter of the known species are 

 peculiar to that continent ; and this individuality shews up even more 

 clearly when reference is made to the genera. Several new species 

 are characterized, and in some cases figures are given which will 



assist in the identification of them. 



W. J. L. 



E. P. Felt, " Insects Injurious to Elm Trees." (1902, Fifth Ann. Rep. 



Fisheries Comm. New York State, pp. 351-79 ; 8 coloured 



plates and 7 text figs.) 

 We noticed (Entom. xxxiii. p. 254) Dr. Felt's report on insects 

 injurious to maple ; the present beautifully prepared memoir deals 

 with the elm, and discusses and figures in their various stages the 

 following insects : — Galerucelia liiteola, Sapeida tridentata, Magdalis 

 arinicollis and barhita (Coleoptera) ; Euvanessa antiopa, Thriduj^teryx 

 ephemercBformis and Hyphantria cuaea (Lepidoptera), and Gossyparia 

 uhni (Rhynchota). r W X 



General: H. Gadeau de Kebville, in an exhaustive account of the 

 marine and maritime faunas of a part of Normandy, enumerates 117 

 species of maritime insects viz. one Thysanuron (Anurida vtaritima), 

 4 Orthoptera, 65 Coleoptera, 8 Hymenoptera, 2 Lepidoptera, 21 Rhyn- 

 chota, and 16 Diptera (including the remarkable Clunio bicolor dis- 

 covered by the author). The two Lepidoptera are Deilephila eupJiorhicB 

 and Zygana trifolii which, with var. orobi and ab. minoides, is discussed 

 in some detail (" Recherches sur les faunes marine et maritime de 

 la Normandie ; 3" Voyage," 1901, Bull. Soc. Amis Sci. Nat. Rouen 

 (for 1900), pp. 194-206), We are indebted to the same autlior for an 

 extended resume on " Galls and Gall-Insects " (" Les Cecidozoaires et 

 leurs Cecidies," 1901, Causeries Sci. Soc. Zool. France, i, pp. 281-307; 

 2 plates and 1 text figure). 



The remarkable genus Koe?ienia, of the Arachnid order Palpigradi 

 is fully discussed by H. J. Hansen (" On six species of Koenenia, with 

 remarks on the order Palpigradi," 1902, Entom. Tidskv. (for 1901), 

 xxii. pp. 193-240, plates 2-4). The same author has monographed 

 the Myriapod order Paicropoda (" On the genera and species of the 

 order Paiiropoda," 1902, Vidensk. medd. naturh. foren Kjoben. (for 

 1901), pp. 321-424, plates i.-vi.). English students will congratulate 



