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extremely small size and secretive habits only an accident, as in my 

 experience, might bring them to our attention. .\s it happens, none 

 of the several species taken by me under the above conditions has 

 licretofore been recorded from New York. They are as follows: 

 Adistcmia watsoni W'oll.. originally described from Funchal in the 

 island of Madeira. .Mso taken in the Canaries, Algeria, Cape of 

 Ciood Hope. Venezuela and Chili, and in this country recorded from 

 Washington. D. C. This species in numbers far exceeded the others 

 found in the mouldy bo.xes. Cartodcrc costulata Reitt.. taken in 

 Japan and Germany, and in this country recorded from Mass., Penna. 

 and Mich. Cartodcrc clcgans Aube. From the Mediterranean re- 

 gion, and in this country recorded from Washington, D. C, only. 

 Corticaria fulva Com. Cosmopolitan, recorded here from Mass., Va., 

 Ky., Mich, and Lower California. For the foregoing records I am 

 indebted to Mr. H. C. Fall's review of the family published in 

 Trans. Am. Fnt. Soc, XXVI. pp. 101-190. Apparently the beetles 

 in question subsisted entirely on the mould, as no evidence whatever 

 was discovered of any consumption of the mounted beetles in the 

 invaded boxes. — Lewis B. Woodruff. 



BOOK REVIEWS. 



Les Insectes. Ax.xto.mie et Physiologie Generales. Introduc- 

 tion' .\ l'Htude de l'Ento.mologie Biologique. By C. Houl- 

 RERT. Second, revised edition. One volume supcrroyal i8mo, 380 

 pp., with 207 text figures. Librairie Octave Doin. Paris, 1920. 

 Price: francs 8.00. unbound; francs 10.00, cloth bound. 



This handy little volume is part of an " Encyclopedia of Science " pub- 

 lished under the direction of Dr. Toulouse and covering all branches of human 

 knowledge. It contains a general account of the structure and habits of in- 

 sects. Intended as an introduction to the study of entomology, it admirably 

 serves its purpose. .After a short definition of the class Insecta, the reader 

 plunges at once into a fascinating history of entomology. Perhaps this part 

 of the book will be most popular with the advanced entomologist because it 

 contains so many little-known details of the life and work of the early French 

 entomologists. It is rather curious that the author does not point with pride 

 to the Entomological Society of France as the senior scientific body exclusively 

 devoting its activities to the study of insects. Its first meeting was held 



