238 The Ottawa Naturalist. 



8. So rex obscurus, Merriam, Abundant in Brit. Columbia. Occurs 

 at the following localities : Nelson, Ward, Field, Glacier, Golden, 

 Kamloops (Cariboo Lake), Sicamous, Goldstream, V. I., Sumas, 

 Comox, and Port Moody. In Alberta, at Henry House two specimens. 



9. Sorex Hoyi, Baird. A Microsorex. Recorded from Quebec: 

 Godbout. Nova Scotia : Digby. Manitoba : Red River Settlement. 

 British Columbia : Stuart Lake. 



Entomology. The Cambridge Natural History. Vol. V. 

 Macmillan & Co., London and New York. 1895. 



This is the second published volume (Vol. Ill treating of 

 Mollusca having previously appeared) of a series now being issued under 

 the able editorship of S. F. Harmer, M. A., Superintendent of the 

 Cambridge Uuiversity Museum of Zoology, and A. E. Shipley, M. A., 

 University lecturer on the Morphology of Invertebrates. The series of 

 ten volumes when completed will constitute a work indispensable to 

 the library of any one interested in Natural History, and will form an 

 authoritative condensation of the present knowledge of animals in 

 all branches. The present volume contains in the first place a 

 twenty-four page account of the genus Peripatus, a curious slug-like 

 creature, which "stands absolutely alone as a kind of half-way animal 

 between the Arthropoda and Annelida." The species are few in 

 number, but have an extended distribution occurring, in South Africa, 

 Australia, New Zealand, South and Central America and the West Indies. 

 This interesting and complete account of their structure, development 

 and habits is by Adam Sedgwick, M. A., F. R. S., who had previously 

 monagraphed the group (Quart. Journ. of Mic, Science, Vol. XXXVIII.) 

 The Myriapoda are next treated of by F.G. Sinclair, M.A., whose article 

 covers some fifty pages, and is an admirable sketch of these many- 

 legged creatures, which are generally looked upon distrustfully because 

 of the dread insphed by the section known as centipedes, and our innate 

 aversion to any crawling, wriggling creature that delights in darkness 

 and concealment. /v/* ^^V 



