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Psyche 6:441-442, 1891.

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April 1893.1 PSYCHE. 441
Telephoridae, 1881, pt. 11-14, p. 65-
106; 1885, pt. 36-38, p. 277-
311. ' 16 151
L~mex~lonidae, 1881, pt. 14, p.
106-112; 1885-86, pt. 38, 46, p.
311-313. 4 8
Melyridae, 1881-82, pt. 14, 16, p.
112-128; 1886, pt. 46, p. 313-
332. 15 83
Cleridae, 1882, pt. 17-19, 21, 24, p.
129-193; 1886, pt. 46-47, p. 332-
346. 27 200
Ptinidae, 1883, pt. 24, p. 194-29;
1886, Pt. 47 P. 347-352- IS 43
Bostrychidae, 1883, pt. 24, p. 210-
218; 1886, pt. 47, p. 352-354- 7 15
Cioidae, 1883, pt, 24, p. 218-224;
1886, pt. 47, p- 354-360- 6 24
Species of the following genera are fig- ured :-
Lycidae. - Caenia, I. *Caller~~, 4. *Calo- cladon, 2,4, 11. *Calolycus, 4. Calopteron, i, 2, 4, 11. *Linoptes, XI. Lucaina, 12. *Lycinella, 11. Lycostomus, I, 2, 11. Ly- cus, I. Lygistopterus,~, 2, 11. Plateros, I, 2. 11.
Larnpyridae. - Aethra, 3, I I. Aspido-
soma, 3, 4, 12. Cladodes, 3. Cratomorphus, 4, 11, 12. *Drilolampadius, 3, 11. Hyas, 3. Lamprocera, 3, 1 I. Lucidota, 3, 4, 11. Mega- lophthalmus, 11. Phaenolis, 3. Phengodes, 3, 5. Photinus, 3, 4, 12. Photuris, 3, 4, 12. Pyrectomena, 3, 4.
Telefhoridae, -Belotus, 6. Chauliogna-
thus, 5, 6, 12, *Daiphron, 5. *Discodon, 5, 6. Lobetus, 6. Malthinus, 6. *Maronius,
'6. 12. Silis,~, 6, 12. *Thinalmus,6. Try- pherus, 6.
Lymessylonidae, -Atractocerus, 7. *Eury- opa, 6. Melitomma, 7. *Ptorthodius, 6.
Melyridae.-Anthocomus, 6,7. "Antixoon,
13. Astylus, 7, 12. Attalus, 13. Collops, 6, 13. *Cymbolus, 13. *Dromanthus, 7, 13.
Ebaeus, 7. Lemphus, 13. Listrus, 13.
Cleridae. - Aulicus, 8. *Blaxima, 8.
Chariessa, 12. Clerus, 8, 12. Colyphus, 7, 8, 12, 13. Cymatodera, 7, 13. Epiphloeue, 8, 12. Hydnocera, 9, 13. Ichnea, 9, 10, 12. Lebasiella, 9. Orthopleura, 9. Pelonium, 9, 12. Phonius, 7. Platynoptera,g. Poecil- ochroa, 13. Priocera, 7, 13. Pyticera, 9. Sallaea, 8. Tillus, 9, 13.
Ptinidae. - Anobium, 13.
Cathorama, 10-
Dorcatoma, 10. *Lioolius, 10. *Micrano-
bium, 10. Mirosternus, 13 *Pitnus, 10.
*Priotoma, 10. Ptinus, 10. *Thaptor, 10. Trichodesma, 10. Trigonogenius, 10, 13.
Bostrychidae. - Bostrychus, 10. Dino-
derus, 13. Polycaon, 10. Tetrapriocera, 10 Xylopertha, 10.
Cioidae. - Ceracis, .IO. Cis, 10, 13. Mac- rocis, 10. Xylographus, 13.
The figure following the name of the genus denotes the number of the plate ; new genera are marked (*).
VANESSA MILBERTI, A CORRECTION.- In
the current volume of Psyche, p. 10, I notice reference to a specimen of this butterfly hav- ing been caught at Polegate, Sussex, in
England. At the time I questioned the
authenticity of the specimen, and at the meeting following that at which it was
exhibited, enough information had been
obtained to prove that it was not taken in England and had been palmed off as a variety of V. wticae on a gentleman who gave
rather high prices for varieties of British Lepidoptera. y. W. Tuft.
ENTOMOLOGICAL No~~s.-The twelfth part
of Kolbe's Introduction deals with the diges- tive tract and its appendages and the secre- tory organs, apparently completing the study of the internal structure of insects, though the outline of the plan of the work announced in the first part has not been strictly fol- lowed. The special bibliographies to each section are, as heretofore, important acces- sories to the work, but do not appear always to have been compiled with sufficient care, many minor references being given which
hardly deserve mention in a selected series,



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PSYCHE.
[April 1893,
while some of much greater significance are omitted.
In an interesting paper on Acronycta,
which has been for some time running
through the pages of the Entomologists'
Record, Dr. T. A. Chapman states that in its two last stages the larva of Cusfidia aZni emits a strong odor when irritated. "The odor is suggestive of an escape of ordinary illuminating coal gas.
A friend of chemical
and engineering experience to whom I sub- mitted some examples says the odor is that of carburetted hydrogen. The scent is emitted most strongly when the larva is ready to search for a place to pupate in. It is so strong that I have several times wondered whether there was not an escape of gas in the room in which the larvae were. It is perhaps proper to suggest that this odor is protective, and in this sense associated with the brilliant 'warning' coloi- and conspicuous station (on the middle of the upper surface of a leaf) of the larva."
H. F. Wickham in a recent bulletin of the University of Iowa gives a detailed account of his search for Coleoptera in southern Alaska.
A paper on the Gryllidae of Indiana just published by W. S. Blatchley (Proc. Ind. acad. sc., 18g1), enumerates sixteen species, belonging to t"he genera Ti-idactylus (I), Gryllotalpa (2), Gryllus (3), Nemobius (3), Anaxiphus (I), Phylloscirtus (I), Orocharis I), Apithes (I) and Oecanthus (3).
Bolivar has recently published in the
Annales of the French entomological society a detailed account of a new genus of purblind cockroaches (Nocticola) from caverns in the island of Luzon, one of the Philippines. Its structure is so remarkable that he believes it should form a tribe apart among cockroaches. The eyes consist of a few clustered ocelli. Two species were found.
In an abstract of a paper on the Descent of the Lepidoptera, published in the Proceed- ings of the American association for the advancement of science, Prof. J. H. Com- stock proposes their division into two great groups, the Frenatae and Jugatae, according as the line of development has been toward the production of a frenulum connecting fore and hind wings during flight to insure their synchronous action, or of a so-called jugum, a special lobe of the fore wings answering the same purpose.
Details are reserved for the
final paper.
Riihl has begun the publication of an
extended work entitled Die palaearktischen grosschmetterlinge und ihr naturgeschichte, to be completed in seventy-five parts. The first (double) part has been issued.
A profusely illustrated work of unusual
'extent on the genus Ornithoptera by R. H. I?. Rippon is publishing in England.
Five
of the twenty parts are already issued.
The last number of Psyche (203) was issued March 6th, delayed for the plate by a mistake of the printer.
All preceding numbers of the
current volume have been issued on the last day of the month preceding that for which they were issued ; except that when that day fell on Sunday, they were issued one day earlier.
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