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Referate. 



Rothschild, Walter, and Karl Jordan. A Revision of the American 

 Papilios. — Novit, zool., Vol. 13, 1906, p. 411—745, t. 4—9. 

 Der allgemeine Teil bringt zunächst eine sehr eingehende Besprechung 

 der Literatur, besonders der alten, ferner Erörterungen nomenklatorischer Fragen 

 sowie zweifelhafter Fälle bei der Entscheidung über Priorität alter gleichnamiger 

 Arten. Im systematischen Teil werden unter Verzicht auf eine Aufteilung in 

 Gattungen oder Untergattungen nach Flügel-Form und -Zeichnung sowie nach 

 morphologischen Merkmalen und Lebensweise der Raupen 3 Sektionen unter- 

 schieden, die wieder in zahlreiche, nach den typischen Arten benannte Unter- 

 gruppen zerfallen. Den Beschreibungen der Arten und Unterarten sind sehr aus- 

 führliche Angaben über Literatur, Synonymie und Verbreitung beigefügt. Die 

 Uebersicht wird durch die beigegebenen Bestimmungstabellen sehr erleichtert. — Gr. 



Anstralictn JEntomofof/ical Literattire in 1909. 

 By W. J. Rainbow. Sydney. 



W. VV. Froggatt, F. L. S.: Official Report on Fruit Fly and Other Pests 

 in Various Countries. Published as a Separate Work by the Minister for Agri- 

 culture (New South Wales). The Report contains 115 pages and eight plates, 

 and is divided into three parts. Part I — General Report deals with: (1) The 

 Commercial Value of Introduced Parasites to deal with Insects that are Pests; 

 (2) The Range and Spread of Fruit Flies and the Methods Adopted in Other 

 Countries to Check Them; (3) The V^alue of Parasites in Exterminating Fruit- 

 Flies; (4) Habits of Cosmopolitan Insect Pests. Part II — Notes on Parasites or 

 Insects that have been introduced from Foreign Countries to Check or Extermi- 

 nate Injurious Insects. This part deals with parasites, and their value and limi- 

 tations in Controlling injurious insects of the garden and orchard. Part III — 

 Fruit Flies. In this part we have a general account of the flies belonging to the 

 family Trypetidae, that damage sound fruit,- with descriptions of the different 

 Speeles (of which some are new to science, and are now described for the first 

 time), and their habits, ränge and suggestions for destroying them. There is 

 also a list of Walke r's species (with references and localities) of the gQnxx^ Dacus, 

 together with a list of other species of the same genus by other authors from a 

 Wide ränge of localities, and which were not represented in any of the collections 

 inspected during the author's tour. 



C. French. senr., F. L. S., F. E. S.: Handbook to the Destructive Insects 

 of Victoria. Melbourne, 1909, pp. 195. 20 coloured plates. Contains brief des- 

 criptions and details of life-histories of a number of destructive insects common 

 to Victoria; also populär descriptions and illustrations of Insectivorous Birds, and 

 reprints of the Vegetation Diseases Acts. 



C. French, junr.: The Tomato Weevil. Journ. Dept. Agric. Vict., VII,, part 

 10, 1909, p. 642, plate. 



C. French. junr.: A New Fruit Pests. Tomato Moth. Heliothis arniigera^ 

 Hübn. Journal Dept. Agriculture of Victoria, Vol. VIII., Part 1, January, 1910, 

 pp. 50—52, and plate showing plums damaged by larvas of this insect. 



W.W. Froggatt: Plant Bug Pests. Agric. Gaz. N. S. Wales, Vol. XXL, 

 Part IL, February, 1910, p. 151. Deals with certain Hemiptera destructive to 

 economic plants, and how to combat them. The species named are: Nysius 

 rinit(n\ Dictt/otus plebejus, Peltophora pedicelldtciy and Stilida indecora. 



H. J. Carter, B. A., F. E. S.: Notes on Australian Coleoptera: with 

 descriptions of New Species of Tenebrionidae. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 

 XXXIV, Part 1, 1909, pp. 120 — 156. This paper contains notes made during a 

 Visit to Europe, especially to the Museums of Brüssels, Paris, London and Ox- 

 ford. The notes refer to three families — Bvprestidae^ Tenebrionidae, and very 

 briefly, Cerambycidae. About twenty new species of Tenebrionidae are described, 

 some of which are illustrated by figures in the text. 



Rev. Thos. Blackburn, B. A. : Further Notes on Australian Coleo- 

 ptera, with descriptions of New Genera and Species. No. XXXIX. Ib. Vol.XXXIIl, 

 1909, p. 18. This paper deals with and tabulates species of the genus Heteronyx, 

 and describes a number of new forms; it also contains notes on species of the 

 genus Diphucephala, Saulostonms, Pseudo?^yctes, and Omeurystypus. 



J. C. Goudie: Notes on the Coleoptera of North Western Victoria. Parti. 

 Vict. Naturalist, XXVI, No. 4, 1909, pp. 39—47. 



T. G. Sloane: Second Supplement to the Revision of the Cicindelidae of 

 Australia. Proc. Linn. Soc. .New South Wales, XXXIV, Part 2, 1909, p. 296—301. 



