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Psyche 17:169-176, 1910.

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somewhat local, species in California.
It flies in the hot sunshine
and seems to have a preference for open plots in wooded localities and along the roadsides. Professor French, in his paper already ,
alluded to, has fully described the preparatory stages, there being but one brood a year. The food-plant is Pentestemon and Professor French has also fed the larv~ on Ribes aureum (lfissouri Currant). In fact, the larv~, like other Arctians, should prove to be quite general feeders. About San Francisco Bay, the adult insect emerges in late April and May. I have taken specimens in the Sierra Nevadas in Placer County, early in April. REVIEWS.
Meunier, F,
Monographie der Leptiden und der Phoriden des Bernsteins. Jahrb. d. konigl. Preuss. Geolog. Landenanstalt, Vol. 30, pp. 64-90, PIS. 3-7. Berlin, 1909.'
Meunier has given in the present paper descriptions of a number of species of Leptidze and Phoridze (principally the latter) occurring in Baltic Amber. Of Leptidze, he recognizes two genera, Leptis and Atheris, seven species of the former and three of the latter, while in the Phorid~ three genera are recorded, Phora, Aphiochmta and Conicwa with fourteen, five and one species respectively. A comparison of the Phorids with recent species is rather dificult as their describer fails to mention many of the characters used for the separation of living forms, and lays great stress upon the comparative length of the ta'rsal joints which have not been hitherto extensively used in the classification of recent species. There are several species, however, which are of especial interest. One, Phora vincta Meun. resembles greatly in the armature of thz legs, species of the section Dormiphora Dahl, represented in both the American and the Malayan regions and the antiquity of this very minor group may explain its present wide distribution. Another, Phora comcimmal has a peculiar flattened space on the hind tibia resembling a structure seen in certain Platypezidz and Dolichopodidz, but known among the Phoridz only in three species of Aphiochzta (A. smithii Brues from America.and A, hi&- wmtris Wood, and A. de~asa Wood from Europe). Five tolerably well exe- cuted plates accompany the paper. C. T. BRUES. Banks, Nathan. Catalogue of Nearctic Spiders. Bull. U. S. National Museum, No. 79, pp. SO. Washington, 1910. The little attention which systematic zoologists have bestowed upon spiders in this country has undoubtedly been due in great measure to the INot the Phora conchna of Meigeu (1830) which is a common European specie8, and entirely different from this one to which Meunier inadvertently givea the same name.




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Iack of a satisfactory catalogue of the group. This want Im been Med in the present paper which should serve to call the attention of entomolupjsta to this interesting group of Arthropods as well as to furnish them with /
some basis for taxonomic work. Mthougb, as the author says, the cata- logne presents PO changes in nommclatnre or d8~8fication it cannot fail io h d a field of usefulness, Over 1300 species are hchded, belonging b nearly 975 genera in 5B families.
C. 'I!. Eam~.
Howwd, L. 0. Preventive and Remedial Work against Mosquitms. Bd. U. S, Bureau of Enkirndogy, No. R8, pp. 1% (Jmt, WIO). This is a very complete amount of the methods of mosquito prevention and destruction, and also conbins a most instractive wount of the re- sults accomplished by mosquito crusades in a number of countries. At- tention is called particuhr1y !o the fact that while the United States has done much toward exterminating mosquitoes in Cuba md the CmaI Zone, measures relating io mosquito control within its own territory have hen received with most deplorable indiffe~nte. C. T. B~mh
Snodgrass, R+ 33.
The Anatomy of the Honey Bee. Bull, U. S. Bureau of Entomology, Tech. k., No. 18, pp. 162, fig. 57. Asfde from its especial nsefulness to those Werested in bee-keeping, fie p~smt account will he of vdue to many others on account of its most excdknt illustrations and good descriptio~s of both the external and in- ternal matomy, The several parts of the paper are preceded by short general considerations of the structure of more gemraliied hwts, which will serve to m&e the whole 1nteUgibLe to those mfadIiar with insect anatomy. C. T. hum
Forks, William T. M. A Structural Study of Some Caterpillars. Ann.
Entom. Soc Arner., Vd. 3, No. 5& pp. 94-139, pls. X-XX. This is a systematic wxount of the characters present in the caterpil- lars of a large series of Lepidopkra bdonghg to many famiks. The
major part of both kt md illustrations deak with the comparative ex- ternd anahmy of the heed and tl-& disposition of ik seh, &l‰âÂhou some attention ha.s barn given to the body set= and armature of the pr01e.p. The mthor kds many useful dassificatory eharachrs and reathe8 a num- ber of conclusions regarding the phylogeny and relationships of certaia of famjlies and genera.
C!. T. Bnma
Mnttkmki, Richard A, C&talogue of the Odonata of North Americ~ Bull. Public Museum, Milwauks Vol. I, pp. WT. This important catdogue ad& mother group of wnsiderabJ.e size to the %ria of North American insecb which ham ken listed withtn the past few yews and form e welcome addition. Mthongh the !kt primarily jn- dnda only Nearctic species fount3 north of Mexico, s number of Mexican and d Cuban species are included, the southrn limit being phced at 90å laBtude, which, with a few exceptions, the mthur believes "closely ap proximatea the natnrd mgeoptphlcal limit." Sn& a treatment slsould




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been dealt with by a conservative application of the International Zo- ological Code. C. T. BRUES.
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Doctor Hewitt has put together in the present book his three valuable. papers on the house flyy which appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Micro- scopical Science during 1907y 1908 and 1909y and has added several short appendices dealing mainly with matters of practical importance. The ap- pearance of this book just at present is very timely? when general inter- est is awakening in the economic importance of the ho~~se fly and it is to be hoped that Doctor Hewitt's fine work may find many appreciative readers. C. T. BRUES.
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Anon. On the Relation between European and American Noc- tuina. 4 pp., 1875,
Beuten~nuller~ W. Descriptions of some New North American Moths. 3 pp., 1890,
Chambers, V. T.
The Classification of the Tineidz. 3 pp., 1883y Dimmock, George. Notes on Pterophoridz of North America, 1 p., 1882y
. The Cocoons of Cionus mxophuluria. 4 pp.å 1882, Dyar, H. G. Notes on Two Species of Datana, with Descrip- tions of Their Larval Stages. 6 pp,, 1890, . Preparatory Stages of Ceruru multiscriptu. 3 p$., 1890, Edwards, W. H. The Number of Molts in Butterflies, with some History of Cullosumiu~ prom@theu. 5 pp., 1881, Elwes, H. J. The Argynnides of North America. 10 ppaY Fieldy L. W.
The Offspring of a Captured Female of Basil- urchiu proserpinu.
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Forbes, S. A. The American Plum-borery Euzopheru semi- funeralis. 5 pp.,
F'ernald, C. H. Note on Phoxopteris un,~ulifusciun,u. 1 p., 1880, Holland, W. J. Descriptions of New West African Lycznidz. 8 pp., 1890,
Jones, J. M. On an Immense Flight of Small Butterflies (Terius &a) in the Bermudas. 5 pp., 1875,
Lintner, J. A. A New Sexual Character in the Pup= of Some Lepidoptera. 4 pp., 1883,
Morrison, H. K. Notes on White Mountain Noctuidz. 3 pp., 1875, . Summer Butterflies at the White Mountains. 4 pp., 1874,
. Varieties of Cleora pulchruriu. 3 pp., 1875, Newcomb, H. H.
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, The Life History of Sierurctiu echo. 3 pp., 1890, Scudder, S. H.
Early Spring Butterflies at the White Mountains. 4 pp., 1874å
Scudder, S. H.
The Introduction of Damida plexippus into the Pacific Islands. 4 pp., 1875,
, Notes on Helitta cucarbit~ and a Related Species. 2 pp., 1885,
. A North Greenland Butterfly. 3 pp., 1875, . Cosmopolitan Butterflies. 3 pp., 1889, , Pieris rupm in Midocean. 1 p., 1876,
. The Natural History of Anosiu plexippus in New Eng- land. 4 pp., 1888,
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The Means Employed by Butterflies of the Genus Basil- archia for the Perpetuation of the Species. 7 pp., 1888, . The Arrangement of the New England Species of Thanaos. 2 pp., 1888,
Soule, C. G. Notes on the Early Stages of Some Heterocera. 11 PP.,
, Description of the Larva of Sphimx lu8citiosa. 2 pp., 1888,
. Description of Egg and Larva of Aputeloda torrefuctu. 2 pp., 1888,
Sprague, I?. H. Notes
Thaxter, R. List of
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. Hibernation
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of Amphipyru pyrumidoides.
2 pp., 1875,
Coleoptwu.
Austin, E. P.
Rediscovery of Cicindelu limbuta Say.
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Austin, E. P.
Geographical Distribution of North American Cole- optera. 7 pp., 1879,
Blanchard, I?. Some Account of Our Species of Geotrupes. 8 PP9
. Lims ~ub8llt6s Randall. 2 pp., 1876,
Dimmock, George. The Scales of Coleoptera. 25 pp., 1883, Edwards, H. On the Localities and Habits of the Various Species of Omus, 3 pp., 1875,
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The Life Histories and Immature Stages of Some Eumolpini. 8 pp.å 1884,
Gissler, C. I?. The Anatomy of Amblychila cylindriformis Say. 11 pp., 1 plate, 1879,
Henshaw S. List of Coleoptera Collected in the Vicinity of Clifton- dale, Mass. 4 pp., 1874,
Hubbard, H. G.
Notes on the Habits of Mugdalinus urmicollis Say. 2 pp., 1874,
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Schwarz, E. A. List of Coleoptera Collected in Michigan in 1874, 5 pp., 1876,
Dtptera.
Brauer, F. The Larvse of Oestridse. 6 pp., 1885, Coquillett, D. W.
The Systematic Position of the Genus Apiocera. 3 pp., 1885,
Gillette, C. P.
A New Cecidomyid Infesting Box Elder. 3 pp., Smith, J. B.
Notes on the Structure and History of Hwmatobia serrata. 5 pp., 1890,
Snow, F. H. Hominivorous Habits of Chrysomyia macellaria. 4 pp., 1883,
Wheeler, W. M. Descriptions of Some New North American Dolichopodidae. 23 pp., 1890,
Williston, S. W. The Screw-worm Fly (Chrysomyia macellaria). 3 pp., 1883,
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. Hilarimorpha and Apiocera. 5 pp., 1888, Hymenoptera.
Bassett, H. A. On the History of a Cynipidous Gall-fly. 4 pp.,
1889,
Brues, C. T.
A New Species of Telenomus Parasitic on the Eggs of Tussock Moths.
2 pp., 1910,
Cockerell, T. D. A. Some Bees of the Genus Nomada from Wash- ington State. 8 pp., 1910,
Dimmock, George. Salivary Glands in Bees. 3 pp., 1883, Gillette, C. P. Notes on Certain Cynipidse, with Descriptions of New Species. 14 pp., 1889,
Lintner, J. A. An Egg Parasite of the Currant Saw-fly. 4 pp.,
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Weed, C. M. Biological Notes on Some North American Ichneu- monidse. 3 pp., 1888,
Wheeler, W. M. Colonies of Ants Infested with Laboulbenia formicarum. 4 pp., 1910,
Van Duzee, E. P. Synonomy of the Homoptera Described by Say, Harris and Fitch. 5 pp., 1890,
. A New Species of Pediopsis. 4 pp., 1889, Weed, C. M. Contribution to a Knowledge of the Autumn Life History of Certain Little Known Aphididae. 12 pp.,
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Life History of Certain Little Known Aphididse. 3 pp., Woodworth, C. W. Synopsis of North American Cicadidse. 3 pp., 1888,
. On the Genus Cicadula. 3 pp., 1888,
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The Nervous System of Phylloxera.
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The Mandibles of the Larva of Eros. 3 pp., 1876, Morrison, H. K.
On an Appendage of the Male Leucarctia acrcea. 2 pp., 1874,
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Spiders Common to New England and Europe. 3 pp., 1876,
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