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Casey, Thos. L. A Revision of the Tenebrionid Suhfamily Coniontina;. 

 (' Proceedings of the AVashiugtou Academy of Sciences,' vol. x. 

 pp. 51-1G6; April 25, 1908.) 



The Autlior divides the Tenebrionids which have no coriaceous 

 hind margins of the abdominal segments into the following sub- 

 families : — Tentyriinne, Coniontinse, Asidinoe, and Zopherinae. The 

 ConiontiucG ai'e again subdivided into Prajocini, Branchini, Conion- 

 tini, and Coelini, the first of which are omitted in the present paper, 

 being South American. The bulk of the paper consists of an 

 elaborate and purely technical monograph, which cannot be further 

 noticed here. In the Addenda an additional South-American 

 group, Nycteliini, including the genera Nyctelia and Nycteliana, is 

 referred to the Coniontini. Some general remarks on entomological 

 bibliography and the relative validity of figures and descriptions 

 follow, and the article concludes with some remarks and corrections 

 relating to a former paper by the Author on the Tentyriinge. 



C. HoiTARD, Docteur de Sciences, Laureat de I'lnstitut. Les 

 Zoocecidies cV Europe et chi Bassin de la Mediterranee. Description 

 des GaVes. Illustration. Bibliographie detaillee. Eepartition 

 Geographique. Index Bibliographique. 1365 figures dans Ic 

 texte, 2 planches hors texte, 4 portraits. Tome premier. Crypto- 

 ganies, Oymnospermes, Monocotyledones, Dicotyledones. (li^re 

 Partie.) 8vo. Paris, 1908. Pp. 570. 



Majtt books have recently appeared on galls, but this is of consider- 

 able importance, being written mainly from a botanical standpoint, 

 and may consequently be regarded as an amplification of Kalten- 

 bach's well-known and most useful ' Pflanzenfeinde,' as far as galls 

 are concerned. Under each plant we have the galls infesting it 

 classed under groups and separately described, so as to allow of easy 

 identification ; and the numerous figures in the text are well 

 executed and characteristic. No descriptions of insects, however, 

 are given, but only of the galls. Under Querciis we were much 

 surprised to read, on p. 249 : — 



" Minime bosselette, Q. ped. Lestes viridis, van der Lind 1296. 



Pierre, 1902, p. 185. 



This refers to a paper thus noticed in the ' Zoological Eecord ' 

 for 1902 :— Ins. p. 57. " 1065. Pierre, Abbe. Sur la ponte d'un 

 Nexiroptere cecidozoon, Lestes viridis, Van d. Lind. Eev. Sci. Bour- 

 bonnais, xv. pp. 181-194." and p, 300 Ins. " Lestes viridis, ovi- 

 position " (with the above reference). 



We have called special reference to this most interesting and 



