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271-3 are new; fig. 205 is reduced from 204 of the first edition; the 

 total number is thus greater by four. Some of these illustrations have 

 suffered sadly in the printing, such as 15 (p. 9), 34 (p. 24), 199 



(p. 123). 



A few errors of the first edition have been carried over into the 

 second, as the statement (p. 133) that the seventeen-year locust moults 

 about twenty-five or thirty times, in spite of Marlatt's repeated asser- 

 tion (1898, 1907) that the number is but six, and the use of "exuvia" 

 for "exuviae," on the same page. 



Additions have been made to each section of the very useful Bibli- 

 ography at the end of the book, but the gaps between the dates cor- 

 responding to the appearance of the first and second editions, are usu- 

 ally marked and one feels that the author has not been able to observe 

 a uniformity in his selection of titles worthy of inclusion. A note- 

 worthy omission, both in the bibliography and in the text under Geo- 

 logical Distribution and under Interrelations of the Orders, is any 

 reference to the comprehensive work of Handlirsch, Die Fossile In- 

 scktcn (1906-08). Escherich's papers on Termites and especially his 

 useful summary Die Termiten ( 1909) also should have been mentioned. 



A notice of the first edition of Prof. Folsom's book was published 

 in the NEWS for September, 1906 (vol. xvii, p. 226-3), and we reaffirm 

 what was said there as to its excellence, even though we have been 

 compelled to point out some minor defects in the new. 1 P. P. C. (Ad- 

 vertisement). 



FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS, or the Zoology of the Sandwich (Hawaiian) 

 Isles : Being Results of the Explorations instituted by the Joint 

 Committee appointed by The Royal Society of London for Pro- 

 moting Natural Knowledge and The British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science and carried on with the assistance of 

 those Bodies and of the Trustees of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop 

 Museum at Honolulu. Edited by David Sharp, M.B., M.A., F.R.S., 

 Secretary of the Committee, Cambridge. At the University Press. 

 4to., Vol. I, Part VI. PREFACE by the EDITOR, INTRODUCTORY 

 ESSAY ON THE FAUNA by R. C. L. PERKINS, pp. I CCXXVIII, 

 16 plates, January 15, 1913. (Rec'd at the Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 

 July 7, 1913.) 



Dr. Perkins began collecting in the Hawaiian Islands early in 1892. 

 Three large volumes, now brought to a conclusion by his Introductory 

 Essay, are chiefly based on the results of his field labors of twenty 

 years and form a noble monument to his industry and interest. As may 

 be seen from the titles of the parts of these volumes, listed below, the 

 insects have come in for by far the major part of his attention. His 

 highly interesting essay has the subtitle, "A Review of the Land Fauna 

 of Hawaiia," and occupies 214 pages. It deals with the general fea- 



