Vol. XXV] ENTOMOLOGICAL NE\\' S 477 



WATER REPTILES OF THE PAST AND PRESENT. B ^ SAMUEL WENDELL 



WILLISTON, Professor of Paleontology in th< e University of Chicago. 



The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. Published 



October, 1914. 8vo, pp. viii, 251. 131 figr 11 " 63 - 



extra, weight 2 Ibs., 5 oz. 



Although this volume has been sent "to the "terary editor for edi- 

 torial use," we confess that we would find it impossible to notice it in 

 an entomological journal were it not that its autn 9 r . 1S ^ famous dip- 

 terologist. Perhaps the word "insects" may o cc " r m lt elsewhere than 

 on page 141, but if it does it is hardly likely t be more than the mci ' 

 denlal mention of the class to be found there. li 1S not 

 men in our day to achieve distinction in two groups so distinct as the 

 Diptera and the Reptilia, and we regret that Prof - Williston has more 

 or less abandoned the former for the latte 1 "' Certainly the extinct 

 reptiles, of which this work chiefly treats, ap f 3eal more strongly to the 

 imagination, by reason of their size and oft en grotesque shape, than 

 do the flies, even though the influence of th e la J- ter " *"? raan , exist - 

 ence has been, and is, a thousand fold greate r - P , r Williston s non- 

 entomological book is very interesting both to the entomolo ist and 

 the non-entomologist, and the most general Chapter in it- 

 on the "Adaptation of Land Reptiles to Life m the Water ' 

 gestions of value even for the first kind of i eacle rs. 



There is one feature of the book which v*" e mu , st criticise unfavor- 

 ably, just as we did in speaking of anothef P roduct ' OI l . f V ie same 

 University Press in the NEWS for February last - Thls s its great 

 weight avoirdupois. We urged then, and w re re P eat " ow -, that bo 1 k ' 

 intended to be read should have light weigf* P a P er fo . r f the text - the 

 heavy sort to be used only as plates for palf-tones, if necessary at 

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Doings of Soc ieties - 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION; ACADEMY OF 

 XATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 



Meeting of March 26, 1914. Mr. P hili P Laurent, Director, 

 presided. Eight persons were present- 



Dr. Skinner exhibited a race of An lblll y* ^ric/ilis (Lepid.) 

 from Florida, taken at Miami, by Mr. Morgan TIebard. This 

 is the form called cartcri by Rothsch il(1 ancl Jordan. 



Mr. R. C. Williams exhibited specimens of An/ytnn's laurcnti 

 from Park County, AFontana. taken J1y 5 to 7- T 9i3- Also 

 Cociwnymfha haydrni and Ercbia cf l P sodca froni the same 

 locality. 



Mr. Rehn said he and Mr. Hebard ha(I latd >" 1)CC ' n ^udyino: 

 the genus Mclano^lus. The last mor-S ra P h was h . v ^cuddcr 

 in 1897, while Morse has done conside rahlc ^ork on the genus. 



