90 The Ottawa Naturalist. 



NOTES, REVIEWS, AND COMMENTS. 



RECENT GEOLOGICAL PUBLICATION'S. 



i. Taylor, Frank >. Niagara and the Great Lakes, Amer. J. Sc. 

 and Arts, Vol. XLIX., 3rd Ser., No. 292, New Haven, April 

 1895, PP- 2 49 2 7- 



2. BEECHER, Chas E. Structure and Appendages of Triundeus, ibid. 



PP- 3 7-3n, PL HI- 



3. Chalmers, Robert. On the Glacial Lake St. Lawrence of Professor 



Warren Uphams, ibid., pp. 273-275. 



4. Wright, G. Frederick. Observations upon the Glacial Phenomena 



of Newfoundland, Labrador and Southern Greenland, ibid., pp. 

 86-94. 



5. Williams, H. S. On the Recurrence of Devonian Fossils in Strata 



<>f Carboniferous As;e, ibid., pp. 94-101. 



6. Coleman, A. P, Ph. I)., etc Antholite from Elzevir, Ontario. 



\mer. J. Sc. and Arts, Vol. XLVIIL, 3rd Ser., No. 286, New 

 Haven, Oct. 1894, pp. 281-283. 



7. Dana, James I ). -Manual of Geology, 4th edition, New York,. 



[895, 1,088 pages; contains 1.574 illustrations besides two 

 geological maps. 



8. Hoffmann, G. C. -Chemical Contributions, tic. Geological Survey 



of Canada. Part Annual Report V., Ottawa, 1895. Contains a 

 large amount of valuable information on the geological resources 

 of all the Provinces of Canada and espe< tally of British Columbia. 



Entomology. - Tntm-ai. Abundanci 01 Meloid I \k\ 1 - 



On Saturday afternoon, June 81b, near the steps leading down to 

 the Canoe Club House at RocklifTe Park, my attention was caught by 

 a number of small bees which were busy upon the blue flowers of a 

 Cynoglossum. These bees belonged to a common species, Halictus 

 disats,\\W\ch is black, with white bauds upon the abdomen, and somewhat 

 fulvous pubescence on the legs and thorax. The individuals which had 

 attracted my attention, however, had apparently a bright rufescenl 01 

 orange thorax, and I recognized immediately that they were carrying, 

 albeit unwillingly, numerous little larvae, which are known as triungu- 

 lins, the first stage in the life of blister-beetles. Continuing my stroll 

 along the river road eastward, I found that around every plant in 

 bloom, and especially around the abundant clumps of raspberry, the 

 swarming bees carried their load of the little active larvae. The bee 



