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teres, 379, ix, 699-742. Leng & Mutchler — Supplement to prelim- 

 inary list of the C. of the West Indies, 153, xxxvii. 191-220. Lesne, 

 P. — Notes sur les coleopteres terediles. Variabilite de certains 

 Lyctides de I'Amerique du Nord, 284, 1916, 92-100. McDermott, F. 

 A. — Observations on the light emission of American Lampyridae, 

 4, 1917, 53-61. Pic, M. — Nouveaux malacodermes exotiqiies, 283, 

 xl, 95-7. Xambeu, C. — Moeurs et metamorphoses des insectes, 16 

 memoire, 307, Ixii, 25-42. 



Blanchard, F. — Revision of the Throscidae of No. America [7 n. 

 sp.], 2, xliii, 1-26. Fall, H. C— Short studies in the Malachiidae [24 

 n. sps.], 2, xliii, 67-88. 



HYMENOPTERA. Brethes, J.— Un caso anormal en "Polistes 

 canadensis" var. "Ferreri"; Le genre "Xylocopa" dans la Repu- 

 blique Argentine. 548, iii, 423; 407-21. Carpenter, G. H. — The scar- 

 city of wasps, 10, xcviii, 413. Kojewnikov, G. — Sur les abeilles her- 

 maphrodites, 379, ix, 743. Santschi, F. — Formicides sudamericains 

 nouveaux ou peu connus, 548, iii, 365-99. Stoehr, L. M. — "Micro- 

 bembex monodonta," 37, xliii, 113-19 (cont.). Wheeler, W. M. — 

 The phylogenetic development of subapterous and apterous castes 

 in the Formicidae, 532, iii, 109-17. 



Brues, C. T. — Adult hymenopterous parasites attached to the 

 body of their host [l new sp.], 532, iii, 136-40. Mickel, C. E. — New 

 sps. of H. of the superfamily Sphecoidea [many new], 2, xlii, 399-434. 

 Parker, J. B. — A revision of the bembicine wasps of America, north 

 of Mexico [some new], 50, Iii, 1-555. 



Check List of Lepidoptera of Bore.\l America. By Wm. Barnes, 

 S.B., M.D., and J. McDunnouch, Ph.D. Decatur. Illinois, Feb- 

 ruary, 1917. Published under the patronage of Miss Jessie D. 

 Gillett, Elkhart. Indiana. 

 It has been thirteen years since we have had a list of North Ameri- 

 can Lepidoptera and. as the authors say, many new species have been 

 described and revisions made in m.any groups and also changes in 

 classification. Such a list is always useful, as far as it goes, and the 

 present one has brought the Lepidoptera up to the present state of 

 our knowledge. Six hundred and sixty-one species of Rhopalocera 

 are listed as compared with six hundred and ninety-eight listed by 

 J. B. Smith in 1903. This difference is due to some of them beinj 

 reduced to the synonymy and others being considered varieties or 

 aberrations. The genera used are more in harmony with common 

 sense than as hitherto used by some persons, but of course there is 

 much to be done to place them on a firm foundation. Eight thousand 



