Report of tbe State Entomologist. 293 



Contributions to the knowledge of our Hymenoptera have also been made by Messrs. 

 G. J. Bowles (Canadian Entomologist, xvii, p. 231); J. A. Guignard (id., xviii, p. 68); 

 Wm. H. Harrington (id., pp. 30, 38, 45, and in Trans. No. 6 of Ottawa Field-Naturalists' 

 Club, p. 244) ; G. W. Taylor (Canad. Ent., xvii, p. 250), and T. W. Fyles (id., xviii, p. 38). 



We are greatly pleased to learn that Mr. Ezra T. Cresson, to whom we ai-e more largely 

 indebted than to any other person for the knowledge of our North American Hymenop- 

 tera, is engaged upon a Synopsis of the order, and that such progress has been made in 

 its preparation that its publication may be expected before many 'months. 



In the LEPIBOPTERA, a volume has been given to the public the present year, which 

 we hope will be followed by others of the kind, in other of the orders, that greatly needed 

 wants may be met. 



The Butterflies of the Eastern United States, for the use of classes in Zoology and private 

 students, by Professor G. H. French, of the Southern Illinois Normal University, will 

 enable the intelligent student, by the aid of synoptic tables, descriptions and figures, to 

 name almost any of the species that occur within the United States, east of Nebraska, 

 Kansas, and Texas. Two hundred species are described,' illustrated by ninety-three 

 figures, and where known, the earlier stages are also given. 



A similar work, devoted to a smaller group, is the SpMngidce. of New England, by Pro- 

 fessor C. H, Fernald — a pamphlet of eighty-five pages and six plates, in which the forty- 

 two species known to occur in the Eastern States are described and a few of them 

 figured. 



A feature in both of the above pxiblications which deserves special commendation, is 

 the accentuation of the binomial name of the species. The care that has been bestowed 

 upon the preparation of these lists, entitles them to acceptance and adoption, and we 

 hope will ensure us some degree of uniformity in pronunciation, hereafter. 



Professor Fernald and Mr. Jno. B. Smith have contributed notes upon Some of the 

 Genera of our SphingidcB (Entomologica Americana, ii, p. 2). 



Mr. Smith has continued his Introduction to a Glassification of the North American 

 Lepidoptei'a, in a fourth paper, devoted to the Sphingida; (id., i, pp. 81-87), and has also 

 given a more detailed account, with illustrations, of the scent-organs in some Bombycid 

 Moths, than we have hitherto had (id., ii, p. 79). 



The careful Life-histories of our Butterflies have been continued by Mr.W. H. Edwards 

 (Canad. Ent, xvii, pp. 155, 181, 245), and also his Description of New Species, from the 

 Pacific Slope (id., xviii, p. 61). 



The Kev. G. D. Hulst has published during the last month, Pesonptions of New 

 PyralidcB, embracing such species as are not named in the American collections and are 

 unknown to those who have made special study of the family. Much the larger number 

 of the species described (89 in all) are from the western portion of the United States 

 (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, xiii, July, 1886, pp. 145-168). Mr. Hulst has also published two 

 papers upon the Oeometridce in which several new species are described, viz., Neio 

 Species and Varieties of Geometridce (Ent. Amer., i, pp. 201-208) and Notes upon Various 

 Species of the EnnomincB (id., ii, pp. 47-52). 



Descriptions of new species of Lepidoptera have also been published by Mr. Henry 

 Edwards (Ent. Amer., i, p. 128, ii, p. 8), Mr. J. Elwyn Bates (Can. Ent., xviii, 74, 94), Mr. Ph. 

 Fischer (id., xvii, p. 133), Mr. B. Neumoegen (Ent. Amer., i, p. 92), and Mr. R. H. Stretch 

 (id., ib., p. 101). 



In the Proceedings of the Natural Science Association of Staten Island, for March, 1886, 

 Mr. Davis has recorded sixty species of butterflies as found upon Staten Island, naming 

 the recent additions to a former list. 



Other contributions to the Lepidoptera have been made by Messrs. Beutenmiiller, 

 Bates, Clark, Fischer, Fletcher, French, Goodhue, Grote, Hamilton, Harrington, Kelli- 

 cott, Moeschler, Smith, Stretch, Tepper, and Mrs. C. H. Fernald, and Miss Murtfeldt. 



It is gratifying intelligence that the two volumes of the Butterflies of North America, 

 for which we are indebted to Mr. "W. H. Edwards, is to be followed by a third -v >rk upon 

 which has been commenced. As the volumes already issued have furnished the Ameri- 

 can student with a better series of life-histories of butterflies than have evei been pub- 



