Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 47I 



To the Entomological Research Committee the Natural History- 

 Museum owes a beautiful enlarged model of the tropical rat-flea 

 (Xenospylla cheopis), which appears to be the main vehicle in the 

 conveyance of bubonic plague to the human subject. The species is 

 believed to have been a native of North Africa, but is now practically 

 cosmopolitan. The model is about 12 inches in length. {Nature, July 

 13. iQii)- 



Entomological Iviterature. 



COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR., AND J. A. G. REHN. 



Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En- 

 tomology of the Americas (North and South), excluding Arachnida and 

 Myriapoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomologj' will not be noted; 

 but contributions to anatomy, phj'siologj' and embryology of insects, how- 

 ever, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. 

 The numbers in Heavy- Faced Type refer to the journals, as numbered 

 in the following list, in which the papers are published, and are all 

 dated the current year unless otherwise noted. This (*) following a 

 record, denotes that the paper in question contains description of a new 

 North American form. 



For record of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, 

 Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. 



2 — Transactions, American Entomological Society, Philadelphia. 

 4 — The Canadian Entomologist. 6 — Journal, New York Entomo- 

 logical Society. 7 — U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of 

 Entomology. 9 — The Entomologist, London. 10 — Nature, Lon- 

 don. 11 — Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London. 12 — 

 Comptes Rendus, L'Academie des Sciences, Paris. 14 — Proceed- 

 ings, Zoological Society of London. 21 — The Entomologist's 

 Record, London. 22 — Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipzig. 35 — An- 

 nales, Societe Entomologique de Belgique. 40 — Societas Ento- 

 mologica, Zurich. 50 — Proceedings, U. S. National Museum. 68 — 

 Science, New York. 72 — Transactions, Kansas Academy of Sci- 

 ence, Topeka. 84 — Entomologische Rundschau. 92 — Zeitschrift 

 fur wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie. 102 — Proceedings. Ento- 

 mological Society of Washington. 107 — Revista, Museu Paulista, 

 S. Paulo, Brazil. 152 — California Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Berkeley. 159 — Bollettino, Laboratorio di zoologia generale e 

 agararia della R. S. Superiore d'Agricoltura in Portici. 179 — Jour- 

 nal of Economic Entomology. 180 — .Annals, Entomological So- 

 ciety of America. 198 — Biological Bulletin, Marine Biological 

 Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. 251 — Annales, Sciences Natu- 

 relles, Zoologie, Paris. 271 — Fauna Artica, herausgegeben von Dr. 



