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Marsh., of which the left elytron is entirely red; a male example of 

 Ptinus brnnneus, Dft., with a round vesicle {blase) on each elytron; one 

 of Melasoma cuprenw, Fb., which has only the rudiment of an anterior 

 tarsus with the claw-segment; Adalia hipunctata, L., with the left 

 elytron var. hfrbsti, the right var. pruni. In nine hundred examples of 

 Ltptinntdrsa 10-iineata, Say, only three were abnormal. 



J. JozsA notes (1900, ' Eovartani Lapok,' p. 152, with 2 figures and 

 resiume 14) a monstrosity of Carahus honijiei, Kust., collected at Dees. 

 The left posterior femur is very strongly thickened and divided into two 

 parts close to the apex ; from each of these parts arises a normal tibia; 

 on tiie upper tibia are arranged in a row the normal five tarsal seg- 

 ments ; on the under tibia there are only two tarsal segments, the 

 second of which is somewhat flat and pointed at the apex. 



Diptera. — J. J. Kieffer discusses the Claws and Arolia in the 

 Diptera (1900, " Ueber die Krallen und die Haftlappcheu der Di- 

 pteren," in Illustr. Zeitschr. fiir Entom., v. pp. 337-40. Plate). 



L. Weber notices the Diptera parasitic, &c., on Man and the other 

 "higher Mammalia") Abh. Ber. Ver. Naturk. Cassel., xlv. pp. 1-20 

 [? Sep.] . 



Hymenoptera . — W. Pospjelow contributes an article on the para- 

 sites of the Hessian Fly {C'ccidomi/ia destructor) in Eussia(1900, Illustr. 

 Zeitschr. fiir Entom., 261-4 ; 6 JBgs.). 



Bhynchota. — W. W. Froggatt monographs the Australian PsyllidaB 

 (1900, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 250-302 ; plates xi.-xiv.) ; 

 10 genera (3 new) and 25 species (18 new) are described. 



Economic Entovwlogy . — W. W. Froggatt has lately published (1900) 

 a number of small pamphlets on Avistralian Insects, in the " Miscel- 

 laneous Publications " of the Department of Agriculture of New South 

 Wales, viz. : — 



(a) " Notes on Australian Coccida," no. 358, 9 pp., 1 plate. 



{(i) " Plague Locusts," no. 363, 9 pp., 1 plate. 



(y) " The Hessian Fly [Cecidomyia destructor, Say) and allied 

 Grain Pests," no. 369. 6 pp., 1 plate. 



(3) " Insects living in Figs, with some account of Caprification," 

 no. 388, 10 pp., 1 plate. 



(e) " Insects and Birds," no. 387 ; 11 pp. 

 Also a pamphlet — which appears from negative evidence to be a sepa- 

 rate publication — on "Scale Insects that produce Lac"; 5 pp. and 

 1 plate. 



Fossil Entomology. — Herbert Goss. " The Geological Antiquity 

 of Insects." 2ud edition (Gurney & Jackson) ; 52 pp. Practically a 

 reprint of the useful first edition published twenty years ago, with a 

 preface embodying the more recent discoveries of Palaeozoic Insects. 

 Unfortunately the author has been unable to discuss the vast mass of 

 information anent fossil Kainozoic insects published within the last 

 decade by Scudder and others. 



G. W. K. 



