408 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



this work has already been attained, and it was found as the result 

 of an investigation made during the summer of 1912-13 that the 

 shore line property values between Jersey City and Rumson had 

 increased by -"15,600,000. Incidentally the drainage operations 

 have greatly increased the production of marsh hay on the lands 

 treated. 



Next in importance to the salt-marsh group is the house group, 

 to which the House Mosquito (Ciilex pipiens L.) and the Malarial 

 Mosquito (Anopheles quadrimaculatus Say) belong. The control 

 of these forms is considered together with that of the woodland 

 and swamp group, the problem in all such fresh-water forms con- 

 sisting in finding the breeding-places and in one way or arfother, 

 according to circumstances, rendering them uninhabitable for the 

 larvae, either by draining, filling, stocking with fish, or, if these 

 methods cannot be carried out, by oiling the surface or using a 

 substance (larvicide), which will mix with the water and kill the 

 larvfe by contact. 



This excellent report is copiously illustrated, the greater 

 number of figures having been taken from Dr. J. B. Smith's elabor- 

 ate work. In addition to the figures of the various species of 

 mosquitoes and their larval characters, the methods employed 

 in draining the salt-marshes, characteristic breeding-places and 

 the kinds of fish useful in mosquito control are also well illustrated. 



CoLEOPTERA Illustrata. By Howard Notman, Vol. I, No. 1. 

 CarabidcC, 136 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Price $1.00). 



This is a very peculiar little book, consisting, as it does, of 

 fifty outline drawings of beetles, forty-one belonging to the genus 

 Carabus, and the remaining nine to Calosoma, Damaster, Procerus 

 and Procrustes. None of the species figured are North American. 

 There are no descriptions, but merely an index to genera and sub- 

 genera, species and sub-species. The drawings are clear and well- 

 executed, each species depicted occupying a single page. As there 

 is no introduction, we are unable to form any conjecture as to the 

 author's object in issuing this publication. 



C. J.S. B 



