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January 1894.] PsycK!?. 15
EDWARDS'S BUTTERFLIES OF NORTH
AMERICA.-If we do not become tolerably
familiar with the transformations and his- tories of our Satyrids it will not be for lack of any effort or skill on the part of Mr. W. H. Edwards, for he again devotes an entire part of his Butterflies of North America to their elucidation. Four species of Chio- nobas and one of Neominois, the latter
genus for the first time, are depicted in Part xiv. The egg of C. cramtis is shown and
all the stages of C. macounii, except the chrysalis (never yet reared), besides numer- ous details of their structure, with the preci- sion and copiousness we are accustomed to in this work. Every stage of N. ridingsii is shown, no less than twenty-seven figures being devoted to them, besides separate
drawings for the early and late forms of the butterfly. Besides all this two other species or varieties of Chionobas (C. oeno and C. assimiZis, the latter regarded as a variety of the former) are figured in their perfect stage. The text for all the species (excepting C. crambt's) is unusually full and rich in
interest and contains extended quotations from his correspondents who have seen the insects in life; but of the greatest impor- tance are all the details of breeding experi- ments in this extremely difficult group of Satyrids, whose behavior is so contrary and variable.
As series I11 approaches completion, every naturalist must hope that some way may be found for the continuation of this incompar- able work, as far into a fourth series as life and health permit the indefatigable author. He has been able to carry on the present series for six years or more only by consider- able grants in aid from funds for the support of scientific research. They should be forth- coming as long as he can make such excellent use of them.
ENTOMOLOGICAL No~~s.-The entomo-
logical a collections of the late Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe, who died last June in his eightieth year, have been acquired by the trustees of the British museum. Mr.
Pascoe's monographs of the Australian and Malayan Longicornia, describing the collec- tions brought together by Dr. A. R.
Wallace are among the most important of
his writings.
Though the Noctuidae of North America
have been frequently listed no comprehensive catalogue has been issued since 1874 when Grote's "List of the Noctuidae of North
America" appeared in the Bulletin of the Buffalo academy of natural sciences, v. 2, p. 1-77. Since 1874 very many new species
have been described and the literature has increased enormously. Prof. John B. Smith's 'Catalogue of the lepidopterous superfamily Noctuidae found in Boreal America," recently issued as Bulletin No. 44 U. S. National museum (424 pp.) will, therefore, be espe- cially useful. In the preface Professor Smith reviews at length the character and condition of the principal collections, American and European, containing typical noctuid mate- rial; to Professor Smith all the specimens studied when the original description is written are types and the plan of placing types in several collections is commended.
The catalogue enumerates nearly 1,700 spe- cies, and is both synonymical and biblio- graphical ; the habitat and present location of the types are noted; critical and descriptive notes *re frequent, an index to authors and works cited is given together with a full index to every name used in the body of the work. To the Bihang to the Swedish academy'h
Handlingar for 1892, Schott contributes a paper on Californian Collembola, with four excellent plates ; eighteen species of eleven genera are recorded.
Wickham describes and figures the early
stages of nine species of our Coleoptera in the Iowa State university's bulletin.
"The sclerites of the head of Danais
archippus" are discussed by V. L. Kellogg in the Kansas university quarterly for Octo- ber last, in which the author dissents from some of Burgess's views.




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