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have had species placed to their credit; page 39, Anempheres had a 

 species assigned to it early last year (1911), Idechthis is misspelled; 

 page 40, As'mamora is misspelled ; page 42, Campoletis had a species 

 assigned to it early last year (1911), Ameloctonus had a species as- 

 signed to it by Ashmead in the 1900 edition of the New Jersey List of 

 Insects; page 55, Aperileptus is misspelled; page 65, Aniseres pallipes 

 is misspelled ; page 68, the type of Plelictes Haliday is the same as that 

 of Myriarthrus Foerster, these genera are therefore synonymous, but 

 not the same as Megasiylus Schiodte, Hclictcs being the older genus 

 replaces Myriarthrus Foerster; page 70, Nesomesochorini and Ne- 

 somesochorus are misspelled; Cidaphus Foerster and Plesiophthalmus 

 Foerster are isogenotypic, therefore Cidaphus replaces Plesiophthalmus 

 Foerster which is preoccupied. Ashmead's Plesiophthalmus is very 

 likely not congeneric with Cidaphus Foerster; page 76, Parabates 

 (Foerster) Szepligeti is preoccupied by Parabates (Foerster) Dalla 

 Torre and should be replaced by Ophcltoidcus Ashmead ; page 84, 

 Ceratogastra is misspelled; page 85, Xenoschcsis and Polycinetus are 

 misspelled. 



The author is to be congratulated upon having finished the Ophion- 

 ina? and it is to be hoped that in a supplementary part he will recon- 

 cile the Foerster collections in this subfamily at least with his work as 

 it now stands. H. L. VIERECK, U. S. National Museum, Washington, 

 D. C. 



DAS TIERKEICH, 26 Lieferung IXODIDAE. 169 pp., 1911, by L. G. Neu- 

 mann. Dr. Neumann's long-deferred part on the ticks has just been 

 issued. It was prepared in 1907 and does not contain species published 

 since the early part of 1908. Yet it will be of the greatest value to 

 the systematist as a summary of the author's well-known "Revision 

 de la famille des Ixodides," and the "Notes." The family is divided 

 into two sub-families, Ixodinae and Spelseorhynchid?e, the latter for a 

 peculiar mite which is probably more related to Gamasidae. The Ixo- 

 clina? is divided into two sections, Ixodini and Argatini, the latter the 

 Argasidse of many writers. The genera of Ixodini are arranged in 

 three tribes; Ixodaria (the same as my Ixodini), the Rhipicephalaria 

 (the same as my Rhipicephalini, plus the exotic genus Hyalommd), and 

 the Amblyommataria, which includes Amblyomma, Hacinaphysalis and 

 Dermacentor. The author correctly places Boophihis as a synonym of 

 Margaropus, and Rhipiccutor as a Rhipicephalus, widely separated from 

 Dermacentor. Aponomma is retained as a valid genus. Cerati.vodes 

 and EschatocephaluiS are put as subgenera of Ixodfs. Our chicken tick, 

 A gas viMfiattts, is put as a sub-species of A. pcrsicits. Altogether 207 

 species and 40 sub-species are held as valid. In the back is a useful 

 host-list. N. BANKS, East Falls Church, Virginia. 



