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A Century of Orthoptera, commenced by Mr. S. H. Scudder in 1868, and continued 

 at intervals in vols. 12-20 of Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Las been completed during the 

 present } r ear by the publication of the last three decades, in vol. 20, op. cit. The species 

 described pertain to the Gryllides, Locustariae, Acridii and Forficul arise. The several 

 parts as originally published have been reprinted in a pamphlet of 84 pages. Mr. 

 Scudder has also published (Psyche, vol. ii., p. 154) a short list of Orthoptera collected in 

 Appalachicola. 



Entomological Notes, No. vi., by Mr. Scudder, issued the past year, is mainly a 

 reprint of papers upon the Orthoptera originally published in the preceding year. The 

 accompanyingindex furnishes a ready means of reference to the species contained in the 

 several papers. 



In the Annual Keport of the Chief of Engineers for 1878, Prof. Cyrus Thomas 

 reports upon a small collection of Orthoptera made in the Explorations and Surveys of 

 the San Juan region of Colorado. The same volume contains a report by Mr. H. Strecker, 

 on the Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera and Coleoptera from the same region, in which several 

 new species of Heterocera are described, and a few figured. 



Of our Entomological serials, the Canadian Entomologist continues to sustain its 

 high reputation, and to merit the contributory aid which it is receiving from nearly all 

 of our American Entomologists, and from some of our European friends. 



Psyche, the organ of the Cambridge Entomological Club, is near the completion of 

 its second volume. With the commencement of its third volume such improvements 

 are promised as will render it of still higher importance to every student of American 

 Entomological literature. 



The Transactions of the American Entomological Society have reached the seventh vol- 

 ume. Although the Society has become a section of the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia, it is proposed to continue the publication of the Transactions as at 

 present as rapidly as the 4, limited means available for the purpose will permit. 



The Bulletin oj the Brooklyn Entomological Society is contmued. That of the Long 

 Island Society has been discontinued. 



The second volume of the Butterflies of North America, by Mr. W. H. Edwards, is in 

 course of publication. It continues to maintain the high reputation which it has com- 

 manded, from its admirable delineations of forms and colouring, and the exceedingly 

 interesting new biological details presented. 



The North American Entomologist is a new candidate for favour and support, of 

 which two numbers have appeared. It is a monthly periodical, published at Buffalo, 

 N. Y., under the editorial charge of A. R. Grote. It purposes to present articles of value 

 both to the specialist and the agriculturist on the subject of North American insects, to- 

 gether with notices of current entomological literature, 



Descriptions of the Noctuidae have been continued by Prof. A. R. Grote in contribu- 

 tions to the Canadian Entomologist and in the North American Entomologist. With a 

 diminution in the number of new forms of Noctuae presenting themselves, Mr. Grote has 

 directed his attention to the Pyralidae, and has published a paper in the Bull. U. S. 

 Geolog.-Geograph. Survey (vol. iv., pp. 669-705), entitled, A Preliminary Study of the 

 North American Pyralidce, in which a number of new species are described, the species 

 of Botis enumerated, and the venation given of certain genera of the Phycidae. A sup- 

 plement to this paper follows in the North American Entomolouist, No. 2, pp. 9-12. 



To the study of the Tortricidae — a family which has received scarcely any attention 

 in this country since the death of Mr. C. T. Robinson, Prof. C. H. Fernald, of Orono, 

 Me., has been devoting special and earnest attention. He has been able to examine 

 nearly all the material contained in the principal collections in this country, and during 

 the past winter has visited the larger collections in Europe for their study and a com- 

 parison with our forms. In England, the Tortricidae in the following collections were 

 critically examined by him : those of the British Museum, of H. T. Stainton, R. 

 McLachlan, C. J. Barrett and Lord Walsingham ; and on the continent, the collections in 

 Brussels, Berlin, Munich, Naples, of Prof. Zeller in Stettin, Dr. 0. Staudinger, MM. 

 Deyrolle and Ragenot and the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. The above amount of pre- 

 liminary work should certainly enable Prof. Fernald, as is his hope, to present us with 



