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Br. Columbian coleoptera. 4, liv, fi.3-6. Liljeblad, E. A revision of 

 the N. A. species of Mordella related to M. melaena. 4, liv, 51-5S. 



HYMENOPTERA. Caudell, A. N. A diving wasp. 10, xxiv, 

 125-6. Crawley, W. C. Formicidae. A new species and variety. 

 21, xxxiv, 85-6. Cushman, R. A. The identity of Habrobracon bre- 

 vicornis. 10, xxiv, 122-3. Donisthorpe, H. Mimicry of ants by 

 other arthropods. 36, 1<)21, 307-11. The subfamilies of Formicidae. 

 36, 1921, xl-xlvii. Friese, H. Eine neue gattung der Urbienen: 

 Brachyglossa n. g. (Apidae). Eine neue bienengattung aus Sudanie- 

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 Hill, C. C. A preliminary account of two Serphoid (Proctotrypoid) 

 parasites of the hessian fly. 10, xxiv, 109-17. Middleton, W. De- 

 scription of some N. American sawfly larvae. 50, Ixi, Art. 21. Tay- 

 lor, L. H. Notes on the biology of certain wasps of the genus Ancis- 

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Cushman, R. A. On the Ashmead manuscript species of Ichneu- 

 monidae of Mrs. Slosson's Mount Washington lists. 50, Ixi, Art. 8. 

 Gahan, A. B. Descriptions of miscellaneous new reared parasitic H. 

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THE PSYCHIC LIFE OF INSECTS by E. L. BOUVIER. Translated by L. 

 O. HOWARD. Illustrated, New York, The Century Co., 1922. 12 mo. 

 pp. xvii, 377. 16 figs., $2.00. It is very fitting that this volume by the 

 Vice President of the Academy of Agriculture of France should be 

 translated by a Member of the same academy and that the latter in 

 his preface should sketch the chief biological activities of the author 

 and the interest which the present work aroused in the translator. 

 Dr. Howard writes that it is "a broad summary of an interesting field 

 in which much work has been done by many men of many nations, but 

 which is as yet almost unexplored. It has interested me enormously, 

 and I feel sure that it will have the same interest, not only for students 

 of some one restricted field of biology, but also for all nature-lovers, 

 especially those to whom the constant question 'why' occurs." 



Many of us who knew this work in the original French, before the 

 publication of Dr. Howard's translation, owed our introduction to it 

 to Dr. W. M. Wheeler's review in Science for November 13, 1920, 

 pages 443-446. In view of the existence of that review and its recent 

 appearance it is not necessary to give here more than the merest out- 

 line of its contents. 



After a brief Introduction the original is divided into a Fundamental 

 and a Special Part, but although the former appears as a heading 

 in the translation (page 1), the latter must be sought on page 196. The 

 Fundamental Part embraces the first nine chapters : I. Directive Action 

 of Light, Phototropism ; II. The Differential External Stimuli and 

 the Tropisms which they provoke. III. Vital Rhythms and Organic 

 Memory. IV. Differential Sensitiveness. V. Differential Sensitiveness, 



