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the American Entomological Society contains a synopsis of 
North American Trichopterygide, by Rev. A. Matthews, of Eng- 
land. He regards this as the most extensive family of the whole 
order of Coleoptera. Dr. Horn notices the species of Anomala of 
the U. S. and gives a synopsis of the U. S. species of Notoxus 
and Mecynotarsus, while pp. 177 to 244 are devoted to a synopsis 
of the Philonthi of boreal America. Among the papers of 
value to American students in parts 1-3 of the Transactions ot 
the Entomological Society of London, are Elwes’ additional notes 
on the genus Colias; E. B. Poulton’s notes upon or suggested 
by the colors, markings, and protective attitudes of certain lepidop- 
terous larve and pupa, etc. ; Lord Walsingham’s North American 
Tortricidae ; E. Saunder’s notes on the terminal segments of acu- 
leate Hymenoptera, and Forsayeth’s life-histories of sixty species ot 
Lepidoptera of Central India. e Transactions of the Imperial 
Zoological-botanical Society of Vienna, for 1884, are rich in valu- 
able entomological papers. Dr. R. Latzel describes (p. 127) two 
new species of Euryp pus, myriopods of the order Pauropoda, 
from Austria, showing that this genus is common to North America 
and Europe. In the same volume von Wattenwyl, under the 
title “Ueber hypertalische nachahmungen bei den Orthoptera,” 
notices and illustrates two cases of mimicry of dead colored 
leaves by a Phaneropterid grasshopper. The second form is 
wingless and strikingly resembles a worker ant. It is named 
Myrmecophana fallax. The fourth part of the Transactions 
of the Entomological Society of London contains, among other 
papers two of much general interest by Baron Osten Sacken, 7. e., 
facts concerning the importation or non-importation of Diptera 
into distant countries, and an essay on comparative chetotaxy, 
or the arrangement of characteristic bristles of Diptera. A 
_ carefully prepared and very just tribute to the memory of our 
greatest entomologist, Dr. John L. LeConte, by S. H. Scudder, 
appears in advance from the Transactions of the American Ento- 
mological iety. We have received a well illustrated report 
on the tea-mite and the tea-bug of Assam, by J. Wood-Mason, of 
Calcutta ; the mite puncturing the leaves so that “a badly smitten 
garden may be recognized from a distance by its red color,” and 
the bug also blighting the leaves. It appears that of the two spe- 
cies of tea plant cultivated in Assam the indigenous species 
which affords the strong and rasping liquor, when pure, enjoys 
an almost complete immunity from attack, while the milder juices 
of the imported Chinese bush render it liable to attack. Mr. 
Mason then asks how the bugs distinguish between different but 
closely similar plants, infallibly selecting the right food-plants for 
their larve. At a meeting of the London Entomological So- 
ciety held July 2, Dr. Sharp remarked that Cyédister reseli has 
been kept alive from five to seven years by being fed on earth- 
worms once or twice a day. Dr. Witlaczil has published in 
