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(2) The necessity of organizing a service trained in the handling of 

 different apparatus and in implements and methods of destruction. 



(3) The necessity of providing resources by che establishment of 

 a special tax after the example of the English in the island of Cyprus. 



These conclusions were recoaimended by the Agronomic section of 

 the French Association for the Advancement of Science March 30, and 

 the whole association in general assembly April 3,sanctioned the prop- 

 ositions of the section. As a result the President of the French Ento- 

 mological Society has been charged by the minister of public instruc- 

 tion, at the request of the Governor- general of Algeria, with the organ- 

 ization of a scientific commission for the study of the locusts which 

 ravage the French Algerian colony. 



AN IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO LEPIDOPTEROLOGY.* 



This paper gives a review in monographic form of a very interesting 

 group of species. All the species heretofore described are noted here, 

 while a considerable number of species are for the first time character- 

 ized. Lord Walsingham says ^'Auophorinse," and in his introductory 

 remarks gives the characters of the group so termed. The number -of 

 generals increased from three to thirteen, and the characters are struct- 

 ural. The genera are therefore easy of determination, if somewhat nu- 

 merous. A leading character is the apical vein, which is said to be 

 either forked or not forked. The number of American species is in- 

 creased from eight to seventeen. One noteworthy feature of the paper 

 is that the male genital organs are described for almost every species, 

 putting them on a sound basis in every respect. Figures of the most of 

 these structures are also given. In the terminology of the parts the 

 words " uncus" and " clasper" are employed. We shall have some re- 

 marks on the nomenclature of these parts in some future number. 



The arrangement of the American species, according to the result of 

 Lord Walsingham's studies, is as follows : 



Neolophus Wlsra., gen. nov. 



furcatus Wlsm., sp. uov., Arizona. 

 Eulejnste Wlsm. 



cressoni Wlsm., Texas. 



mactt/i/erWlsm., sj). uov., Arizona. 

 HyloclopusWlsm.jgeu. uov. 



griseus Wlsm., sp. nov., Arizona. 

 Acrolor)hH8 Poey. 

 , tiimnlatus Wlsm., Texas. 



plumifrontellus Clem., North Carolina, 

 Massachusetts, New York. 

 bombyciiia Zell. 



mortipennellus Grt., Central Alabama. 



cervinus Wlsm., sp. nov., Texas. 



texanellus Cliamb., Texas. 



arizoneUus Wlsm., sp. nov., Arizona. 



*A revision of the genera Acrolophus Poey, and Anaphora Clem. By the Right 

 Honorable Lord Walsingham, M. A., F. Z. S., etc. Trans. Ent. Soc, Loud., 1887, 

 pp. 137-173, pi. VII and VIII. 



Anaphora Clem. 



morrisonl Wlsm., sp.nov., Florida. 



propinqua Wl8m.,sp. uov.. Florida. 



popeanella Clem., Missouri, Texas, 

 North Carolina. 

 a(jrolipenneUa Grt. 

 scanVina Zell. 



tenuis Wlsm., sp. nov., North Carolina. 



macrogaster Wlsm., sp. uov., Arizona, 

 Felderia Wlsm., gen. nov. 



filicornis Wlsni.,sp. uov., Arizona. 

 Ortholophns Wlsiu., gen. nov. 



variabilis Wlsm., Arizona. 

 Pseudanaphora Wlsm., gen. nov. 



arcanella Clem., Minn. 



