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special terms (caudad, ventrad, &c.), proposed by Prof. Wilder, we 
think their omission in some of the cases where used would have been 
of decided advantage: for instance, on page 10, he says ‘‘ The gen@ or 
cheeks are the lateral portion of the epicranium, which are usually 
ventrad of the eyes and caudad of the mandibles.” Would it not have 
been just as accurate, just as scientific, and much more intelligible to 
have located them ée/ow the eyes and dehind the mandibles? We really 
cannot see the advantage of the unnecessary use of unusual and ultra- 
technical terms in an Introductory work. With these small faultfind- 
ings, we most heartily reeommend the book to all students of Entomo- 
logy, old or young. . 
Washington, D. C. Joun B. Smiru. 
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October. 
Prairie Farmer, Oct. 1888. 
Proc. Amer. Ass’n for Adv. of Science, Vol. XXXVI, 1887. 
West American Scientist, May, 1888. 
Ottawa Naturalist, April and June, 1888. 
Review of Species of Pleocoma, by Dr. Geo. H. Horn. 
Obs. on Corn Insects, by F. M. Webster. 
Report on Insects of ‘the Season in Iowa, by H. M. Osborn. 
Journal Trenton Nat. Hist. Society, No. 3. 
Journal of Cinn. Society of Nat. History, Vol. II, Nos. 2 and 3 
Canadian Naturalist, Vol. XX, Nos. to and 11. 
Hawk Moths of North America, by A. R. Grote. 
Le Naturaliste Canadienne, Vol. XVIII, No. 3 
Naturae novitates, Nos. 17 to 20. 
Correspondenzblatt des Entomologischen Vereins ‘‘Tris’”’? zu Dresden, Vol. V. 
Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae, Vol. XXI. , 
Bulletin de la Société entomologique Suisse, Vol. VIIT; No. 
Comptes-rendus de Séances de Ja Société entomologique de Balsttces Nos. 1— 
Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Kéniglichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft 
in Wien, Vol. XXX VIII, Nos. I and 2. 
Bulletin de la Société Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscow, Nos. 1 and 2, 1888. 
November. 
Prairie Farmer, November, 1888. 
Naturae novitates, Nos. 16 and 21. 
Ottawa Naturalist, September and October, 1888. 
Preliminary List of Myriapoda of Arkansas, by Chas. H. Bollman. 
18th Annual Report of Entomoloyical Society of Ontario, 1887. 
Entomologiske medelleser udgivne of Entomologisk forening, ved Fr. Meinert, 
Copenhagen, 1888. 
Comptes-rendus de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, No. 104, 
Introduction to Entomology by Prof. J. Henry Comstock, Part I. 
Trans. Amer. Ento. Socicty of Phil., Vol. XV, Nos. 2 and 3. 
Proc. of Acad. of Nat. Sciences of P nila. rf Part 2, 1888. 
Psyche, No. 149 and 150. 
Report of Prof. Riley, U. S. Entomologist, for 1887. 
Journal N. Y. Microscopical Society, Vol. VI, No. 4 
Bulletin 2 and 4 of Experiment Station of College of Agriculture, University of 
Minnesota. 
Annales del Museo Nacional, Republica de Costa Rica, Part I, 1888. 
R. T. PEARSALL, Lzdrarian. 
