72 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Memoirs of the Department of Af/riculture in India. 

 Numbers 1-5, published during 1907, have been received. In 

 these Mr. H. Maxwell Lefroy, the Imperial Entomologist, treats of 

 " The Bombay Locust " (No. 1), and "The More Important Insects 

 Injurious to Indian Agriculture" (No. 2), pp. 1-252. In No. 3, "The 

 Indian Surface Caterpillars of the Genus Agrotis" are dealt with by 

 Mr. Lefroy (pp. 253-259) ; and Mr. C. C. Ghosh contributes " The 

 Life-history of Agrotis ypsilon" (pp. 260-274). Dr. Harold H. Mann 

 discusses " Individual and Seasonal Variation in Helopeltis theivora, 

 Waterhouse" (No. 4), and adds a description of a new species of the 

 genus (pp. 275-337). No. 5 contains a paper by Mr. E. E. Green 

 and Dr. Mann, entitled " The Coccidae attacking the Tea-plant in 

 India and Ceylon " (pp. 338-355). There are a number of plates, 

 mostly coloured, and many illustrations in the text. 



United States Department of Agriculture : — 



Bulletin No. 68, parts i.-v. — Papers by A. A. Girault and A. L. 

 Quaintance on Deciduous Fruit Insects and Insecticides. 



Bulletin No. 69. — The Chinch Bug [BUssus leucopterus, Say). By 

 F. W. Webster. 



Bulletin No. 70. — Eeport of the. Meeting of Inspectors of Apiaries, 

 San Antonio, Texas, November 12th, 1906. 



Bulletin No. 72. — Information concerning the North American 

 Fever Tick, with Notes on other Species. By W. D. Hunter and 

 W. A. Hooker. 



Bulletin No. 74. — Some Factors in the Natural Control of the 

 Mexican Cotton Boll Weevils. By W. E. Hinds, Ph.D. 



Bu^lletin No. 75. — Miscellaneous Papers on Agriculture. Part i. : 

 Production and Care of Extracted Honey. By E. F. Phillips, Ph.D. 

 Methods of Honey-testing for Bee Keepers. By C. A. Browne, Ph.D. 

 Part ii. : Wax Moths and American Foul Brood. By E. F. Phillips. 



From the ' Proceedings of the United States National Museum,' 

 vol. xxxiii. : — 



Descriptions of New North American Tineid Moths, with a Generic 

 Table of the Family Blastobasidae. By Lord Walsingham (October 

 29th, 1907). 



The Dragonflies (Odonata) of Burma and Lower Siam. ii. Sub- 

 families Cordulegasterinae, Chlorogomphinae, and Gomphinse. By 

 Edward Bruce Williamson (December 13th, 1907). 



Papers by John B. Smith, Sc.D. : — 



Notes on the Species of Amatlies, Hiibn. Pp. 345-379, plates ix. x. 

 (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxxiii., November, 1907). 



Notes of the Brephidae. Pp. 369-371 (' Canadian Entomologist,' 

 November, 1907). 



New Species and Genera of the Lepidopterous Family Noctuidae 

 for 1907. Pp. 91-127 (Annals New York Acad. Sci. vol. xviii. pt. ii. 

 January 22nd, 1908). 



Obituary. — We have heard with very great regret of the death of 

 Mr. Herbert Goss. A further notice will appear in our next issue. 



