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RECENT LITERATURE. 



John B. Smith. Insects of New Jersey. Suppt. 27 Ann. Rep. State 

 Board of Agriculture for New Jersey for 1899 (1900, 755 pp. 

 and 2 maps ; 328 figs.). 



This comprehensive catalogue is an extension of a similar list pre- 

 pared some ten years ago. After introductory chapters on the deve- 

 lopment of insects, the injury caused by them, insecticides, machinery, 

 &c., a complete list, so far as is known, is given of all the insect 

 orders, twenty-two of these being recognized. Brief diagnoses of the 

 families are followed by an euumeratiou (after each family) of the 

 species, with locahties. Three hundred and twenty-eight figures of 

 the more noteworthy insects are inserted, either in tlie text or in full- 

 page plates ; most of these are from well-known sources, such as Dr. 

 Smith's own 'Experiment Station Reports,' Riley's Missouri lieports, 

 and those of the United States Department of Agriculture. The 

 second map (of New Jersey, showing the location of the San Jos6 

 Scale Colonies) is by mistake numbered fig. 392 instead of 329. 



A very useful feature, for local workers, is the "Index to Localities" 

 (pp. 703-20), stating the best-known centres for collecting, and their 

 characteristics. The total number of New Jersey Insecta is 8537 

 species, an increase of 2439 since the first edition, ten years ago : 

 Coleoptera, with 2845; Lepidoptera, with 1570; Diptera, with 1193; 

 and Hyraenoptera, with 1718, have been the most fully worked orders 



G. W. K. 



E. A. Ormerod. Flies Injurious to Stock (London, 1900, 80 pp. 24 figs.). 



This little work is professedly a compilation, to a large extent from 

 the authoress's previous writings, for the use of those interested or 

 engaged in farm-work. At the same time it contains a large amount 

 of information anent the habits of the various British Diptera impli- 

 cated, particularly (Extras oc/.s (by misprint in list of subjects "oi-inus") 

 and Melophaijiis oviniis on sheep ; (iastrophilus equi, Hlppobosca equina, 

 seven TabanidiB and Hijpoilermit sp. on horse ; and Hijpoderwa bovis on 

 ox. The work ought to be in every British entomologist's library, and 

 it is for this reason, and on account of the nominal price, that a 

 longer notice is not given. The only fault of the book is the length of 

 the extracts from correspondence, which could probably have been 

 much abbreviated, and the gist of the matter more ably submitted to 

 the reader in the authoress's own words. 



G. W. K. 



Coleoptera. — R. Scholz records (1900, Illus. Geit. fur Entom. 298), a 

 beetle, Stenocorus fusciatus, Fabr., with monstrous abdomen. The first 

 ventral segment is, according to the author, twisted out of its place ; 

 the second segment is smashed, part (on the left side) being anterior 

 to the first, part (on the right side) being posterior to the first. 

 G. DE Rossi records {I. c, 813) an example of Geotrypes spiniyer, 



