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Psyche 8:324, 1897.

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324 PSYCHE. [February 1800.
enabled them to issue a work of the liveliest interest and importance. It should stir
many another to like industry. The habits of some twenty-two genera, often of several species under each, are studied, and even their individual idi~sync~acies in many cases discovered and related. The illustrations add much to the value of the book, but the inspiring example of faithful work is its chief merit.
Mr. W. F. Kirby of the British Musenm
has jnst issued a little book, entitled Marvels of Ant Life (London, S. W. Partridge & Co). Although a compilation and so lacking the spirit of the work of an original observer, it is very well compiled, and in the short space of 174 pages covers sixteen chapters in the separate consideration of ants as architects, agriculturists, mushroom-growers, hunters, honey-pots; cattle-keepers, slaveholders, soldiers, etc., and culls from the abundant but widely scattered literature the best instances that can
be given, and which are
put together with skill. A general bibliog- raphy is appended, in which we miss Forel's extended paper on ants' nests, published in Zurich in 1893, and translated for the Smith- sonian Report of 1894.
Chancellor W. J. Holland's Butterfly Book (New York, Doubleday and McCIure Co.), is a " popular guide " to North American but- terflies, and has its special value from illus- trating in color some five hundred species with 750 figures. They are three-color
prints,"and are astonishingly accurate repro- ductions from nature to the minutest detail, surpassing the best chromolithographs and only occasionally falling short, where the registry is imperfect or the original speci- mens are not altogether satisfactory ; Nature, not a draughtsman, does the work for color as well as pattern. The work will add
greatly to the interest of the butterfly col- lector,for it is published at Ibe extraordin- arily low price of three dollars, and figures most ol our species north of Mexico.
We
are disappointed to find the life histories ignored.
STATE ENTOMOLOGIST OF NEW YORK.-
The Country Gentleman states that the re- gents of theuniversity of New York have ap- pointed Ephraim Porter Felt, state entomol" ogist, a previous appointment by the gover- nor having proved to be without authority in law.
Guide to the Genera and Classification of the Orthoptera of North America north of Mexico. By SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. go pp. 8'. Contains keys for the determination of the higher groups as well as the (nearly 200) genera of our Orthoptera, with full bibliographical aids to further study.
Sent by mail on receipt of price ($1.00). E. W. WHEELER, 30 BOYLSTON STREET, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. A. SMITH & SONS, 269 PEARL STREET, New York. MASLil'ACTUREttS ASH IBBORTEilS OF
GOODS FOR ENTOMOLOGISTS.
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