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RECENT LITERATURE. 



1. Three Belated American Species of ^■Eschna (Odonata) — ^^. multi- 



color, Hag., ^.mutata, Hag., Sind ^^ . jalapens is, nov. sp. 



2. A New Dragonfly [Odonata) belonging to the Cordulina, and a 



Bevision of the Classification of the Subfamili/. [The new 

 species is Platycordidia xanthosoma.'] Both by E. B. William- 

 son, ' Entomological News,' June, July, and November, 1908. 

 PeobaBLY the general notes embodied in these two papers will 

 be of most interest to English readers. 



W. J. L. 



The Annals of Scottish Natural History. Edinburgh. 1908. 



Not a great amount of entomological matter appears this year, 

 but some of the articles and notes are of importance. These are — 

 Notes on Coleoptera of St. Kilda (T. H. Beare) ; do. : mainly from 

 Birds' Nests (N. H. Joy) ; Scottish Species of Oxyura (Procto- 

 trypidae), pt. iii. (P. Cameron) ; Lepidoptera of East Ross, &c., and 

 on Amhlyptilus punctidactylus (D. Jackson) ; Insect Fauna of Isle of 

 May (P. H. Grimshaw) ; Sirex noctilio (Sawfly) in Forth, Aleochara 

 spadicea (Coleopteron) in Scotland, Quedius longicornis (Coleopteron), 

 in Forth, and Bethylus cephalotes (Proctotrypidae) in Scotland (W. 

 Evans) ; Death's Head in Kircudbrightshire (R. Service) ; Palloptera 

 ustulata in Edinburgh and Ceratophyllus borealis in Berwickshire 

 (J. Waterston). W T I 



Descriptions of Tertiary Insects. By T. D. A. Cockeeell. (From 

 ' The American Journal of Science,' vol. xxvi. pp. 69-75, July, 

 1908.) 



These descriptions are illustrated by figures of three fossil dragon- 

 Hies — Lithagrionhyalinum, Scudder, Enallagma florissantella, sp. nov., 

 and Trichonemis aliena, Scudder. 



Some Besults of the Florissant Expedition of 1908. By Professor 

 T. D. A. Cockeeell. (Reprinted from ' The American Natura- 

 list,' vol. xHi. pp. 569-81, September, 1908.) 

 Some of the most interesting fossils found in 1908 in the Floris- 

 sant beds are discussed and illustrated by photographs. Among 

 these are a dragonfly (Phenacolestes parallelus, Ckll.), and two bees 

 {Galyptapis florissantenis, Ckll., and Anthophora melfordi, Ckll.). 



The Agricultural Journal of India. Vol. iii., parts 1 and 2. Calcutta 

 and London : Thacker k Spink and W. Thacker & Co. 1908. 

 The contents of part i. (January, 1908) comprises an article by 

 H. Maxwell-Lefroy, M.A., the Imperial Entomologist, on " The To- 

 bacco Stem Borer (Gnorimoschema heliopa, Low.)." This is accom- 

 panied by an excellent coloured plate showing the insect in all 

 stages. 



