360 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India. Entomological 



Series, vol. ii., No. 8. " Life-Histories of Indian Insects. — 



Coleoptera I." By H. Maxwell-Lefroy, M.A., F.E.S., &c. 



Pp. 139-163, plates xiii.-xix. (June, 1910.) Thacker, Spink & 



Co., Calcutta and London. 



Deals with the life-histories of seven Indian beetles — Phyllocjna- 



thus diomjsius, Anomala varians, Galerucella singhara, G. rugosa, 



A'pomecyna ijertigera, A. histrio, Cy las forviicariics, Sbud Clonus Jiortit- 



lamis var. major. The various stages of all these insects, except 



A. histrio, are beautifully depicted on the plates. 



The following have also been received : — 

 An Introduction to the Study of Becky Mountain Bees. By T. D. A. 

 CocKERELL and W. W. Robbins. Pp. 179-195, with eight 

 plates of figures showing wing and other structural details. 

 (Reprint from 'University of Colorado Studies,' vol. vii.. No. 3; 

 Boulder, Colorado, March, 1910.) 



The Type-Species of the North American Genera of Diptera. By 

 D. W. CoQUiLLETT. (Reprint from ' Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus.,' 

 vol. 37, pp. 499-647, Aug. 4th, 1910.) 



Haivaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Division of Entomology. 

 Bulletin 207. — " Army Worms and Cut Worms on Sugar-Cane 

 in the Hawaiian Islands," by 0. H. Sweezey (pp. 32, plates 3). 

 Bull. No. 8. — "A Bibliography of Sugar-Cane Entomology," by 

 G. W. KiRKALDY (pp. 72). 



Insects and Entomologists : their Belations to the Commnnity at Large. 

 By Professor John B. Smith. Pp. 209-226 and 467-477. (Re- 

 print from the 'Popular Science Monthly,' March, May, 1910.) 



Injuries to Forest Trees by Flat-headed Borers. By H. E. Burke. 

 (From ' Year-book of Department of Agriculture for 1909,' 

 pp. 399-415.) 



U.S. Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Entomology : Technical 

 Series : — No. 18 : " The Anatomy of the Honey Bee," by R. E. 

 Snodgrass. No. 19, pt. i. : " The Parasites Reared or supposed 

 to have been Reared from the Eggs of the Gipsy Moth," by 

 L. 0. Howard, Ph.D. Part ii. : " Descriptions of Certain 

 Chalcidoid Parasites," by J. C. Crawford. 

 Bulletins : — 64, pt. viii. : " The Woolly White Fly : a New Enemy 

 of the Florida Orange," by E. A. Back, Ph.D. 80, pt. v. : "On 

 the Nut-feeding Habits of the Codhn Moth," by S. W. Foster. 

 82, pt. iv. : "The Life-History and Control of the Hop Flea 

 Beetle" (Psylliodes punctulata), by William B. Parker. 85, 

 pt. iii. : "The Clover-root Curculio," by V. L. Wildermath. 

 pt. iv. : "The Sorghum lsi\(\.ge {Contarinia sorghicola, Coq.)," 

 by W. Harper Dean. Pt. vi. : " Contributions to a Knowledge 

 of the Corn Root- Aphis," by R. A. Vickery. Pt. viii. : " The 

 Cow Pea Curculio," by Geo. G. Ainslie. 



