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In this volume Dr. Lintner has given a more than usually varied Report, ex- 

 tending over several Orders of Insects, with full details. It is impossible to specify 

 these in the space at our disposal. We note, however, that the little House Ant 

 {Motwmorium pharaonis, L.) has been known to clear a house of bed bugs in a single 

 day, so it is not an unmixed evil. An appendix gives a list of insects affecting the 

 apple tree in America, in which no less than 356 species are mentioned, mostly 

 Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, and Hemiptera. 



The Hemiptera-Homoptera of the British Islands : by James Edwards, 

 F..E.S. 8vo, pp. 271, and 2 plates ; large paper edition, with 28 coloured plates- 

 London : L. Reeve and Co. 1896. 



Mr. Edwards has already done good work at this group, and published an exhaus- 

 tive account of the British genera and species of the Cicadina in the Transactions of the 

 Entomological Society of London for 1886 (Part II) and 1888 (Part I). The present 

 volume is in great measure a reproduction of these articles, with the addition of the 

 Psyllina ; the latter are carefully compiled, and the descriptions are clear and full. 

 Four new species are added, viz., Liburnia Tkoulessi, Fsi/lla concinna, Psylla 

 hrunneipennis, and Psylla venata. There is a useful introduction and two good 

 structural plates. In his preface Mr. Edwards notices the meagreness of the records 

 of localities, and rightly ascribes it to the paucity of collectors of the group ; but 

 we think mere might have been found, and at all events more advantage might have 

 been taken of Dr. Power's collection, which has apparently been overlooked. The 

 records, however, will probably be largely increased by the publication of the work, 

 which will be of very great service to all who desire to study the British Homoptera. 

 The large paper edition contains twenty-eight coloured plates ; the great majority 

 of the figures are plain and easy to recognise, and, taken together with the descrip- 

 tions, they ought to render the identification of the species an easy matter. 



The Butterflies of North America. Third Series, Pt. xvii : by W. FI. 

 Edwards. 4to. Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston and New York. 1897. 



We infer that this Part is not only practically the last of the Series, but also 

 of the entire work. If so, it brings to a conclusion a monumental enterprise com- 

 menced by the author nearly thirty years ago (1868), and carried ou with a single- 

 ness of purpose that is most commendable. Most of the Parts have been noticed 

 in this Magazine as they appeared. Of the work as a whole it may be said that it 

 commenced at a time when the number of North American species was very 

 uncertain, and of the transformations, distribution, and habits little was known. 

 Thanks largely to the energy of Mr. Edwards the biology of American species is 

 almost as well known as of those of Europe, and in some respects better knswn, 

 for there is probably no European work in which the larval details are delineated 

 iu the same minute manner. It is an ouvrage de luxe, but at the same time probably 

 the most important faunistic work on Butterflies that has ever appeared. 



(ibituaru. 



James B. Hodgkinson, F.E.S., was born at Preston on October 27th, 1823, and 

 died at Ashton-on-Ribble, a suburb of the same town, on February 17th, 1897. 

 About 1827 his family removed to Carlisle, and an acquaintance with Mr. T. C. 



