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should be a few typographical and other errors and some minor inconsistencies. 
This work brings together in one volume a vast amount of information and the 
author is to be congratulated upon having produced a very readable compre- 
hensive work, which should prove attractive and e.xceedingly helpful to the 
amateur as well as essential to every investigator. E. P. P'. 
A Catalogue of the Erycinidae, with the synonymy brought down to 
OCTOBER, 1 904, BY LEVI W. MENGEL, READING, PENN. PUBLISHED MAY, I905. 
This publication covering the Erycinidae of the world is of undoubted value 
to every collector working in this family. It will serve as a collection check 
book and also as a catalogue of reference. The amount of work involved in its 
preparation is little appreciated by the average collector, but is readily appreci- 
ated by scientists who have attempted any such complete record of specific 
names with reference to previous publications. The author states in his preface 
that the arrangement of any such publication in connection with family or 
generic succession is dependent upon the ideas of the scientist who takes up the 
work; that is, there are scarcely any two publications of .this sort that agree in 
family or generic arrangement, and the arrangement that is followed by the 
average collector is one that has been suggested through publications which 
were readily purchasable; thus the order of Mr. Kirby’s synonymic catalogue 
has been widely adopted, although others have published works not so readily 
obtainable with a totally different arrangement. 
The specific arrangement of any such publication should not be put under 
too severe criticism. This publication of i6i pages represents an amount of 
detailed work that is not readily realized, and it is a volume which should be in 
the possession of every library and of every collector Who is interested in this 
branch of entomological work. .\. G. W. 
