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R. F. Pearsall on Geometrids, p. 205. Two new species, and numer- 

 ous new records ; no collector given. 



E. M. Ehrhorn on Coccidae, p. 275. Several new species; no com- 

 parison with allies. 



A. D. Macgillivray on Einfria, p. 305. 21 new species; no compari- 

 son with allies. More species on p. 341 et seq. 



Barnes & McDunnough on Cea on p. 318. Two new species; no col- 

 lectors given. One has two localities, type locality not stated. 



C. R. Crosby on Derostcnus, p. 414. New species ; no comparison 

 with allies. 



T. W. Fyles on Gnorlmoschema, p. 422. New species; no comparison 



with allies. 



T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



THE NORTH AMERICAN DRAGONFLIES OE THE GENUS AESHNA. By E. M. 

 Walker, B.A., M.B., Lecturer in Zoology in the University of 

 Toronto. University of Toronto Studies, Biological Series, No. 

 n, University of Toronto Library: Published by the Librarian, 

 1912. Pp. viii, 213. 28 plates (6 of them in colors). Received 

 April 20, 1912. Price, $2.00. 



This monograph, by the Editor of The Canadian Entomologist, deals 

 with the species of Aeshna, in the narrower sense (excluding those re- 

 ferred to Coryphaeschna Williamson), which have been found north of 

 Mexico. It is doubtful whether anyone hitherto has produced a work 

 treating of so many aspects of a group of Odonata as this one does. 

 The systematic portion occupies pages 56-202. Preceding it is a discus- 

 sion of the taxonomic characters of adult and of nymph; the variations 

 of the adults, climatic, colorational and geographic; and the general life- 

 history. 



The discussion of the taxonomic characters devotes much space to 

 descriptions of the color-pattern and external genitalia of the adults 

 and to the relationships of the Aeshninae of the world inter se. The 

 author's views on this latter subject are summarized in a phylogenetic 

 tree (p. 24), according to which Gomphaeschna, Jagoria, Linacschna. 

 Boyeria, Allopetalia, Basiaeschna, Oplonaeschna and Aeshna are placed 

 as the most generalized of living genera. Aeshna is thought "to suggest 

 a polyphyletic origin from several parent genera resembling Basiaeschna 

 and Oplonaeschna," while Anax is considered to be in most respects 

 "very highly specialized.' 



The climatic variations noted are that "with an increase of the 

 mean summer temperature there is an increase in the length and a de- 

 crease in the depth of [abdominal] segment 3, and an increase in the 

 length of the female appendages." (p. 29.) 



