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eacli genus to its equivalent in Meigen's paper 

 in niiger's Magazine of 1803.' Now being 

 available to all, tbe paper will doubtless kindle 

 many nomenclatorial controversies. Accord- 

 ing to Hendel, there will be changes in 47 

 generic names. It would be of great advan- 

 tage to entomologists, if others, who have 

 access to rare papers, would follow the ex- 

 ample of Dr. Hendel and republish them. 



Me. E. Shelford has described a strange 

 new genus of Diptera,' which shows still more 

 than its allies a deceptive resemblance to the 

 cockroaches. The creature is wingless, with 

 deflected head, small eyes, no ocelli, an en- 

 larged globular basal antennal joint, reduced 

 mouth parts, flattened femora, no tarsal 

 pulvilli, and the venter of the abdomen shows 

 no segmentation. It comes from Africa, but 

 nothing further is known about its occur- 

 rence. 



The third and concluding part of the 

 Monograph of the Phasmidffi or stick insects 

 has been issued.* This part contains the 

 tribes Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini and Ne- 

 croseiini, and is all by Eedtenbacher. There 

 are a great many new species described from 

 his own collection, or from continental mu- 

 seums. Unfortunately he has omitted many 

 species described in the last few years by 

 American writers. The plates, by the author, 

 well represent the remarkable structures of 

 these marvels of insect life. 



Mr. V. E. Shelford, who for several years 

 has been gathering ethologic material on the 

 tiger beetles, has published the first of a 

 series of articles upon this attractive group of 

 insects." There are notes on the habits of 



^ " Nouvelle classification des mouches a deux 

 ailes (Diptera L.) d'apres im plan tout nouveau," 

 par J. G. Meigen, Paris, an VIII. (1800). Mit 

 einem Kommentar herausgeben von F. Hendel, 

 Verh. zool.-lot. Oes. Wien, 1908, pp. 43-69. 



* " jEnigmatistes afrioamus, a New Genus and 

 Species of Diptera," Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. 

 Zool, XXX., 150-155, 1 pi., 1908. 



* " Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden," Leipzig, 

 1908, pp. 341-589; 12 pis., folio; by K. Brunner 

 V. Wattenwyl and J. Eedtenbacher. 



• " Life Histories and Larval Habits of the 



various species occurring in the vicinity of 

 Chieag-o. The life history is given of C. pur- 

 purea, and more or less completely for 0. 

 cuprascens, C. lepida, 0. punctulata, C. sex- 

 guttata, G. hirticollis, 0. scutellwris, 0. tran- 

 queharica, C. duodecimguttata, 0. repanda, C. 

 generosa and C. limbalis. The plates show the 

 larvEe, their burrows, the pupal cell, and the 

 head and prothorax of the larvae of the species ; 

 the position of the bristles on these parts 

 furnish good distinguishing characters. 



Op all our families of Homoptera the 

 Fulgoridffi are perhaps the least known. Sev- 

 eral years ago Mr. E. P. Van Duzee studied 

 one group of them, and lately he has taken up 

 some of the larger forms." Descriptions are 

 given of many new species from various parts 

 of the United States, and tables to the sub- 

 families, several genera and some of the 

 species. The same author, as the result of a 

 brief trip to the island of Jamaica, has pub- 

 lished a list of the Hemiptera of that island.' 

 Nearly fifty species are described as new in 

 the list of over 230 collected on the trip. Dr. 

 O. M. Reuter has elsewhere described some 

 of the Capsidse taken by Mr. Van Duzee in 

 Jamaica. And in the same society Mr. Van 

 Duzee has published a comprehensive review 

 of our tree-hoppers." Synoptic tables are 

 given to the genera and usually to the species. 

 The author has placed more reliance upon 

 the shape of the prothorax than many writers. 

 It is hoped that the paper will lead to a mono- 

 graphic treatment in the near future. 



Dr. W. M. Wheeler has contributed two 

 more articles to the ant fauna of our country. 

 One, a revision of the Myrmecocysti" or 



Tiger-beetles ( Cicindelidae ) ," Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 Lond. Zool., XXX., pp. 157-184, 4 pis., 1908. 



' " Studies in North American Fulgoridse," Proc. 

 Acad. 2fat. Sei. Phil., f. 1907, pp. 467-498, 1908. 



' " Notes on Jamaican Hemiptera," Bull. Buffalo 

 Soc. Nat. Sci., VIII. (No. 5), 79 pp., 1907. 



' " Studies in North American Membraeidse," 

 Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci., IX., pp. 29-129, 2 

 pis., 1908. 



" " Honey Ants, with a Revision of the Amer- 

 ican Myrmecocysti," Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Bist., 

 XXIV., pp. 345-397, 1908, 28 figs. 



