266 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



14. Horn, W. : "Brulle's ' Odontochila ans dem baltischen Bern- 

 stein ' und die Pbylogenie der Cicindeliden " (Sept. 1st, 1907; 

 Coleoptera). 



Horn (14) divides the subfam. CicindeliniB (of the fam. 

 Carabidse) into two phyla, viz., Alocosternalife (with tribes 

 Ctenostomini and Collyrini) and PlatysternaHae (with tribes 

 Cicindelini, Megacephalini, and Mantichorini). 



Martelli (5) gives a very full account of the biology of the 

 " large cabbage white," with that of its parasites, hyperparasites, 

 &c. Verity (11) enumerates 456 species of Lepidoptera from 

 Vallombrosa in the Tuscan Apennines, viz. : 77 Rhopalocera, 

 255 Macro-Heterocera, and 124 Micros. The list is annotated. 

 Rocci (9) deals only with the butterflies of Piedmont, of which 

 he enumerates 117 ; this list is also annotated, and is preceded 

 by observations on the country. Longstatf (4) precedes his 

 notes on Jamaican butterflies by topographical remarks and a 

 map of the island. 



Massi (7) presents an extensive and well illustrated contribu- 

 tion to the study of the chalcid flies. 



Horvath (2) has summarized the interesting relations between 

 the Hemiptera of Europe and North America. Thirty-three 

 species — lieduvius jpersonatus, Citnocoris lectularius, two Cher- 

 midse, twelve Aphidae, and seventeen Coccidse — are common to 

 both. The summary is as follows : — There exist a certain 

 number of species and genera of Hemiptera common to Europe 

 and North America. The great majority of these Hemiptera 

 has originated in the palaearctic fauna, and belongs to the 

 temperate zone. Their migration has mostly taken place by the 

 Behring Strait. The few southern types common to the two 

 continents have originated from intertropical regions, whence 

 they have independently come to enrich the palaearctic and 

 nearctic faunas. Artificial importation plays only a secondary 

 rule in the propagation of Europeo- American Hemiptera, but 

 Europe has, by means of its cultivated plants, added more 

 species to the American fauna than vice versa. 



Vickery's notes (12) on the external anatomy of Aphidse may 

 be interesting to British workers. Wellman (13) furnishes some 

 biologic notes on an African Pieduviid bug, which preys on a 

 hut-infesting tick {Ornithodorus) . 



Silvestri and his assistants (6) have issued a very important 

 work on the insects injurious to the olive. All orders are dis- 

 cussed very fully as regards their biology and anatomy. 



Theobald (10) has issued a fourth volume on Mosquitoes, 

 extending to over six hundred pages ; he describes seventy-three 

 new species. Hendel's "Genera" of the Lauxaninae (better 

 known as Sapromyzidae) is somewhat extensive, and will doubt- 

 less be very valuable to dipterists. The three coloured plates 



