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HYMENOPTERA. Banks, N.— Miscellaneous notes, 102, xvii, 

 146-7. Cook, A. J. — The relation of bees to horticulture, 368, iv, 

 426-7. Crawley, W. C. — A remarkable marriage-flight of ants, and 

 some theories, 21, 1915, 205-6. Cuthbert, H. G.^Selective instinct 

 of bees, 392, xxiv, 188-9. Davis, W. T.— (See under General). 

 Howard, L. O. — An unusual color in a hornet's nest, 102, xvii, 148. 

 Natzmer, G. V. — Ueber konvergenzen im leben der ameisen und 

 termiten, 92, xi, 161-5. Pierce & Cushman — A few notes on the 

 habits of parasitic H., 102, xvii, 164-7. Stellwaag, F. — Zum farben- 

 sinn der bienen liefert kranichfeld in Biologischen Zentralblatt, 74, 

 xiv, 427-8. 



Crawford, J. C. — The genus Secodella in N. Am. [4 n. sps.], 102, 

 xvii, 142-4. Cushman, R. A. — Descriptions of new Ichneumonidae 

 and taxonomic notes [8 n. sps.], 102, xvii, 132-42. Girault, A. A. 

 — New genera of Chalcidoid H. [5 n. sps.], 6, xxiii, 165-73. Some 

 new Chalcidoid H. from North and So. America; New Chalcidoid 

 H. [6 n. sps.; 6 n. sps.], 180, viii, 272-78; 179. Meade-Waldo, Mor- 

 ley & Turner — Notes and synonymy of H. in the collection of the 

 British Museum, 11, xvi, 331-41. Rohwer, S. A. — A remarkable 

 new genus of Cephidae Cl n. sp.], 102, xvii, 114-17. Rohwer, Gahan 

 & Cushman— Some generic corrections in the Ophioninae, 102, 

 xvii, 149-50. Santschi, F, — Deux Cryptocerus nouveaux [1 new], 

 87, 1915, 207-9. Woods, W. C. — Biosteres rhagoletis, a parasite of 

 Rhagoletis pomonella [n. sp.], 4, 1915, 293-5. 



Coi^EOPTERA Illustrata by Howard Notman. Vol. I, No. i, Cara- 

 bidae, Brooklyn, N. Y., 136 Joralemon Street. Copyrighted 1915 by 

 Howard Notman. All rights reserved. Price one dollar. — This is a 

 pamphlet measuring 7J/2 x 55^ inches, consisting of two pages of text 

 and fifty plates. The first page of text is an alphabetical "Index Vol. 

 I, No. i" to the 48 genera and sub-genera illustrated in the plates, 

 while the other page is an alphabetical index to 60 species and sub- 

 species represented. Each plate shows a single line-drawing of a 

 dorsal view of one species, below which are the names of genus, species 

 and first describer, the sex, length in millimeters and patria. The 

 species depicted may be learned from an examination of the adver- 

 tisement published elsewhere in this number of the News; they are 

 all of the Palaearctic region, although one, Carabus maeander Fischer, 

 is also quoted as from Hudson's Bay. While the idea of figuring 

 insects is a laudable one, we doubt whether these illustrations will 

 appeal to many students in the United States. For them a more valu- 

 able work would be one which illustrated the details of structure on 

 which the generic and specific characters of our North American 

 Coleoptera are founded, selecting for this purpose those species which 

 are not figured in the easily accessible literature. {Advertisement). 



