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A Classificatiom of North American Spiders. — By Prof. Jo'in Henry 

 Comstcck, Ithaca, N. Y. Comstock Publishing Co., 1903. Large 

 8vo., p]). 56. (Price, 50 cents.) 



Anyone taking up the study of Spiders will find this a useful manual, 



as the tables will give him a clue, without much difficulty, to the families 



and genera ; for the determination of species he will require to have 



recourse to some other work, such as Eraerton's " Common Spiders of the 



United States." The tables require for their use some previous knowledge 



of the external anatomy of the Spiders and the technical terms used in 



their description. The author has in preparation a textbook of North 



American Arachnida, and publishes these tables in advance in order that 



they may be tested before publication of the larger work. 



The Insect World : A monthly magazine, edited by Y. Nawa, Gifu, 

 Japan. Vol. VII., 1903. 



Recent numbers of this remarkable magazine have contained a page 



or two in English, giving an illustrated description of some Sphinx Moth 



or other interesting insect. Hitherto one has only been able to read the 



English title, admire the excellent illustrations and turn over the pages 



with a great longing to be able to read Japanese. In the January number 



there was an account of a remarkable moth, whose larva lives as a parasite 



on certain species of Cicada ; a coloured plate is given showing the 



different stages of the insect, the neuration of the wings of the moth and 



the host with parasites attached. Mr. Marlatt gave, at the meeting of 



Economic Entomologists, very interesting descriptions of Mr. Nawa and 



his entomological laboratory and museum, which he visited last year. 



DEATH OF PROFESSOR GROTE. 



It is with profound regret that we record the death of our greatly- 

 esteemed friend, Professor Augustus Radcliffe Grote, A. M., the 

 tidings of which has just reached us. The sad event occurred on 

 Saturday, September 12th, at Hildesheim, Germany, where he had been 

 living for the past nine years ; during the previous ten or eleven his 

 home had been at Bremen. With the exception of this last score of years, 

 his life was spent in the United States, and was devoted almost entirely 

 to the study of the Lepidoptera of North America, 



We beg to offer our deepest sympathy to his widow and children in 

 their affliction. It may be some slight consolation to them to know that 

 their grief is shared by many on this side of the Atlantic who were his 

 friends and colleagues in earlier years. 



Mailed October 3rd, 1903. 



