ABSTRACTS OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF 



AtiRICULTURE. 



DIVISION OF ORNITHOLOGY AND MAMMALOGY. 



NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA No. 4 (pp. 55). 



Descriptions of twenty-six new species of North Ameri- 

 can MAMMALS, C. Hart Merriam (illustrated). — This number includes 

 descriptions of seven species of the little striped skunks (genus Spilo- 

 gale), with suggestions regarding revision of the genus; five ground- 

 squirrels of the genus Tam'ias ; an Evotomys from Colorado ; two species 

 of ^rotowi?/s from the Pacific coast regiju; a ma,vtQ.\i {Mustela caurina) 

 from the Northwest coast; a species of Molossus from California; a 

 prairie-dog from Wyoming ; three ground-squirrels of the Spermophilus 

 sinlosoma group ; three kangaroo rats, with remarks on the identity of 

 Dipodoniys ordii of Woodbouse; a pocket gopher of the genus Geomys, 

 from Western Nebraska; and a species of Eesperomys from Southern 

 Florida. The illustrations consist of three plates with eleven figures, 

 and three figures in the text. 



DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



Insect Life, Vol. Ill, No. 2, September, 1890 (pp. 41-87, illus- 

 trated). — The principal articles in this number are on the clover mite 

 {Bryobia pratensis, Garman), by C. V. Riley and C. L. Marlatt; an out- 

 break of the army-worm, and some other insects affecting grain in 

 Maryland, by W. H. Ash mead ; some of the bred parasitic Hymenoptera 

 in the national collection (continued), and descriptions of certain iepi- 

 dopterous larvte, by H. G. Dyar. There is also a report of the proceed, 

 ings of the Entomological Club of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, at Indianapolis, August, 1890, by F. M. Web- 

 ster, secretary. 



DIVISION OF POMOLOGY. 



BULLETIN No. 3 (pp. 14). 



Classification and generic synopsis of the wild grapes of 

 North America, T. Y. Munson. — "This is intended as preliminary to 

 a complete monograph on the wild grapes of this country, now in course 

 of preparation by this Division." 



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