260 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Aedes Smithii, new species. 



Black, the pleura largely, venter, bases of halteres, coxpe and bases 

 of femora yellow, scales of upper sides of body dark brown, some on the 

 abdomen having a violaceous reflection, scales of femora black, those on 

 the under side light yellow, scales of hind tibiae black, those on the inner 

 side and on the front and middle tibi;e and their tarsi light yellow, tarsal 

 claws simple ; wings hyaline, first submarginal cell nearly twice as long 

 as its petiole ; length 3 mm. Two males and three females bred from 

 material received from Prof. J. B. Smith, after whom the species is 

 named. Type No. 5799, U. S. National Museum. 



Habitat. — Lahaway, New Jersey. 



At the suggestion of the writer, Prof. Smith submitted specimens of 

 this species to Mr. Samuel Henshaw, of the Museum of Comp. Zoology 

 at Cambridge, Mass., for comparison with the type of Aedes fuscus, and 

 Mr. Henshaw replied that the two forms are very distinct. The new 

 species will readily be recognized by the absence of cross-bands of yellow- 

 ish scales at the bases of the abdominal segments. 



BOOK NOTICE. 



Catalog der Lepidopteren des Palaearctischen Faunengebietes von 



Dr. Phil., O. Staudinger und Dr. Phil., H. Rebel. Dritte Auflage des 



Cataloges der Lepidopteren des Europoeischen Faunengebietes: 



Berlin. Friedlxnder & Sohn, Mai 1901. 



This is an old friend in a new dress, and yet the dress is not at first 



so different, for general arrangement, typography, method of citation, 



etc., are very much like those of the preceding edition. Part I., 



Papilionida to Hcpialidcc, is by Staudinger and Rebel, and contains 411 



pages, aside from the 30 pages of introduction and explanations. Part 



II., Pyralidce to Micropterygidce, is by Dr. Rebel, and contains 368 



pages, which, however, include the generic and specific indices to both 



parts. That the work fully equals in all respects the previous edition 



goes without saying ; it does even much more, and represents, though not 



fully, the intermediate progress in classification. 



No one who has not met both authors can understand the real 

 marvel of this combined work. 



Dr. Staudinger, old, slow* and conservative; utterly out of touch with 

 modern methods ; distrustful and suspicious of characters unfamiliar to 



