342 . Scientific News. [ May, 
man, Mr. Distant remarked that he had learned from Mr. Chennell 
that Erthesina fullo,a very common eastern hemipterous insect 
was largely eaten by the Naga Hill tribes of North-eastern India. 
Mr. Meldola remarked that chitine, which comprised the crust of 
insects had been shown by analysis to contain about six per cent. 
of nitrogen, and as reg gards phosphates, Mr. Wm. Cole had burned 
some insects and found phosphoric acid in the ash 
— A laborious work, redounding to the credit oF both parties, 
is Mr. Samuel Henshaw’s list of the entomological writings of 
John L. LeConte. It forms a pamphlet of eleven pages, edited 
by George Dimmock, and is No. 1 of Dimmock’s Special Bibli- 
ographies. Dr. LeConte has thus far published 250 papers and 
works. We hope to record the publication of many more from 
his pen. The second number comprises the entomological writings 
of George H. Horn, compiled by Samuel Henshaw, edite 
George Dimmock. ‘The titles number 80. The third part is in 
vate maeaeds giving a list of the writings of Samuel Hubbard 
Scudder; compiled and edited by George Dimmock. - Mr. Scud- 
der’s pains number over 250 titles. These have, or will appear 
in the Advertiser of Psyche, the organ of the Psyche Entomologi- 
cal Club, Cambridge. These bibliographies are done with unex- 
ampled faithfulness and care, and can be purchased of the editors 
of Psyche, Cambridge, Mass. This journal desires and needs 
more subscribers. The subscription is $1.00 a year. It is doing 
a good work for the progress of entomology in this country, an 
contains matter of much general interest; the bibliographical 
portion being a valuable feature. We would only make one criti- 
cism, 7. e., in the use of lower case initial letters of names of 
genera and higher groups; this is an innovation which we should 
not desire to see followe 
— The fourth volume of the Transactions of the Wisconsin 
Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, just received, among a 
number of comparatively worthless papers, contains besides Prof. 
Birge’s notes on Cladocera, already noticed in this journal, a paper 
by Dr. E. Andrews on discoveries illustrating the literature and 
religion of the Mound-builders. Dr. P. R. Hoy contributes two 
papers entitled, How did the Aborigines of this country fabricate 
copper implements ? and Why are there no upper incisors in the 
Ruminantia? Dr. J. N. de Hart writes on the antiquities and 
age ip sinc of the Mound-builders of Wisconsin, while Prof. 
C. Chamberlain publishes an essay on the extent ‘and signifi- 
cance of the Wisconsin kettle moraine. 
— At its last session Congress appropriated $10,000 for the 
completion of the investigation of the Rocky Mountain locust 
by the United States Entomological Commission. The wor 
during the coming season will be carried on in Colorado and the 
Western Territories, particularly Utah and Eastern Idaho, where 
the locust abounds each summer, doing í more or less ‘dama mage. 
