ABSTRACTS OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE TNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF 



AGRICULTURE. 



DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



Insect Life, Vol. Ill, No. 1, August, 1890 (pp. 1-41).— The priucpal 

 articles are those ou a peach pest ( Ceratitis capitata, Wied.) iu Bermuda; 

 the cauker-worm, bj' C. W. Hargitt; Monostegla ignota (Kortou), by F. 

 W. Mally ; larvte of a craue fly destroying youDg wheat iu Indiana, by 

 F. ^I. Webster ; some of the bred i)arasitic Hymenoptera iu the i^atioual 

 Collection (continued from Volume II); and how are insect vivaria to 

 be lighted? by A. II. Swiutou. The index and table of conteuts for 

 Volume II are also sent out with this number. 



DIVISION OF ORNITHOLOGY AND MAMMALOGY. 



NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA No. 3 (pp. 136). 

 KESULTS of A BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE SAN FRANCISCO 



Mountain region and desert of the Little Colorado, Ari- 

 zona, C.Hart Merriam and Leonhard Si ejneger (illustrated). — 

 The survey was made during August and September, 1889. "The pres- 

 ent paper consists of five parts : (1) an announcement of the general re- 

 sults of the survey, with special reference to the geographic and vertical 

 distribution of species; (2) results of a brief visit to the Grand Canon 

 of the Colorado ; (3) an annotated list of the mammals of the San Fran- 

 cisco Mountain region, including the desert of the Little Colorado, with 

 descriptions of new species ; (4) an annotated list of the birds; (5) an 

 annotated list of the reptiles and batrachians, with descriptions of new 

 species." 



The first four parts are by Dr. Merriam and the fifth by Dr. Stejneger, 

 curator of reptiles in the U. S. National Museum. The bulletin is illus- 

 trated with five colored nuips, among which are a map of Arizona, 

 showing the life areas of the Colorado Plateau; a biological map of the 

 San Francisco Mountain region, Arizona, showing the seven life zones 

 <lefined by the survey ; and a i^rovisional biological map of North 

 America, showing the principal life areas. There are also thirteen 



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