376 THE CAJ^ADIiLN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



of the wings oi cohimhia nokomis is brighter coloured than that o\ Columbia. 

 "As I have seen but one specimen of the cohimbia zt<i?io?ia/i type, 

 little need be said about it. My specimen may have been representative 

 of an extreme northern group, or it may have been only a strongly-marked 

 specimen oi Columbia 7iokomis." 



BOOK NOTICE. 



Annotated Catalogue of Oriental Culicid/e. By E. Brunetti, 

 Records of the Indian Museum, Vol. I, part 4, No. 25, pages 297 to 

 377, December, 1907, Calcutta. 



The author begins by stating that his work is a compilation only, and 

 that he has not especially studied mosquitoes. Nevertheless, he presents 

 an original classification of Culicidse, dividing them into four subfamilies, 

 in reality but three, omitting the Corethrinse, to conform to our conception 

 of the group. The subfamilies are not defined, but an inspection of their 

 contents indicates that the separation has been made on the basis of the 

 relative lengths of the palpi in the two sexes, thus : palpi long in both 

 sexes = Anophelina3 ; long in the $, short in the $ =Culicin9s; short in 

 both sexes = .'Edeomyinae. Truly, the mosquitoes are an unfortunate 

 group, since their primary divisions are still based on secondary sexual 

 characters, such as we are no longer disposed to admit for genera even, 

 and even so on jnodifications of the length of palpi, not in any structural 

 \ difference of these plastic organs. It is a pity that this unscientific classi- 

 fication should still be perpetuated in the literature. Otherwise our 

 author closely follows Theobald's classification, as, indeed, he must, no 

 other author having covered the ground independently. References are 

 given to every species, with a few notes and full localities, largely com- 

 piled, though we note a few original data. Two hundred and twenty-six 

 species are listed, exclusive of the Corethrinae. A number of species are 

 mentioned which have been omitted by Theobald. Accompanying our 

 copy is a sheet of "errata et addenda," dated March, 1908, with the follow 

 ing naive heading : 'Tl faut regarder ces notes comme des Additions en 

 Manuscrit parce qu'elles ne sont pas actuellement publiees." Probably 

 the sheet accompanies only the author's separates, but is nevertheless 

 clearly "published," being printed and distributed and obtainable from the 

 author. — Harrison G. Dyar. 



Mailed October 2nd, 1908. 



