460 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



"reared from hickory limb bearing large black knots, and from which were- 

 reared Dicerca lurida^ CJirysobothris femoratiis^ Magdalis olyra, Leptur- 

 ges querci and Chra?nesus icorics, the Magdalis being perhaps the more 

 abundant." E. P. Felt /;/ ///./ i ? , Washington, D. C. (W. H. 

 Ashmead) ; i ?, Norfolk, Va.; 2 (^ 's Len Haven Road, Va., bred by 

 Hopkins from a Rattan Vine; 2 ^ 's, Cocoanut Grove, Fla., May, 1887 

 (E. A. Swartz) i i ^, Santa Cruz Mts., Cal; i 9, Los Angeles, Cal; i 

 $, Tuscon, Ariz., reared Feb, 1897, from Mesquite twigs by H. G. 

 Hubbard; i 9, Panamint Mts.. Cal., April, 1891, and i c^ , 12th Aug.^ 

 1907, Ithaca, N. Y. 



The other species of the genus Metapelma are distributed as follows 

 M. gloriosa, West., Luzon, Philii)pines ; AI. rtifi7nana^ Westw., Sarawak, 

 Borneo ; M. tap7-obafice, Westw., Ceylon ; M. obsairata, Westw., Eastern 

 India ; M. mirahilis, Brues, Cape Colony. 



A NEW NAME IN MEGACHILE. 



Mfgachile geophila, n. n. — Megachile terresiris, Ckll., Ann. Mag, 

 Nat. Hist., March, 1908, p. 260 (not of Schrottky, 1903). Florissant, 

 Colorado. T. D. A. Cockerell. 



BOOK NOTICE. 



Insect Stories : by Vernon L. Kellogg, New York ; Henry Holt and 

 Company. 298 pages, 12 mo. Illustrated. (Price $1.50 net, by 

 mail $1.62.) 



One hardly expected that the writer of such serious works as 

 "Darwinism To-day," "American Insects," etc., should present us with a 

 collection of charming stories about insects and their strange doings. 

 Professor Kellogg has, however, accomplished a somewhat difficult task, 

 and produced a book of fascinating interest that appeals not only to 

 youthful readers, but to their elders as well. Whoever begins to read it^ 

 if he has any love of nature in his composition, will hardly put the book 

 down till he has finished. Furthermore, the stories are all true ; there is 

 no attributing human reasoning to the creatures described, as is so often 

 done in tales about animals. The actual doings of the insects are 

 described, their haunts and habits, their enemies and their prey. It would 

 be difficult to find a more delightful Christmas gift for young people, or a 

 book more suitable for reading to children in a nature-study cLiss. 



Mailed December 8th, 1Q08. 



