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[February , 



enabled them to issue a work of tlie liveliest 

 interest and importance. It should stir 

 many another to like industry. The habits 

 of some twentj-two genera, often of several 

 species under each, are studied, and even 

 their individual idiosjncracies in many cases 

 discovered and related. The illustrations 

 add much to the value of the book, but the 

 inspiring example of faithful work is its 

 chief merit. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby of the British Museum 

 has just issued a little book, entitled Marvels 

 of Ant Life (London, S. W. Partridge & Co). 

 Although a compilation and so lacking the 

 spirit of the work of an original observer, it 

 is very well compiled, and in the short space 

 of 174 pages covers sixteen chapters in the 

 separate consideration of ants as architects, 

 agriculturists, tnushroom-growers, hunters, 

 honey-pots, cattle-keepers, slaveholders, 

 soldiers, etc., and culls from the abundant 

 but widely scattered literature the best 

 instances that can be given, and which are 

 put together with skill. A general bibliog- 

 raphy is appended, in which we miss Forel's 

 extended paper on ants' nests, published in 

 Zurich in iS93,and translated for the Smith- 

 sonian Report of 1894. 



Chancellor W. J. Holland's Butterfly Book 

 (New York, Doubleday and McClure Co.), is 

 a " popular guide" to North American but- 

 terflies, and has its special value from illus- 

 trating in color some five hundred species 

 with 750 figures. They are " three-color 

 prints," and are astonishingly accurate repro- 

 ductions from nature to the minutest detail, 

 surpassing the best chromolithographs and 

 only occasionally falling short, where the 

 registry is imperfect or the original speci- 

 mens are not altogether satisfactory ; Nature, 

 not a draughtsman, does the work for color 

 as well as pattern. The work will add 

 greatly to the interest of the butlerlly col- 

 lector, for it is published at the extraordin- 

 arily low price of three dollars, and figures 

 most of our species north of Mexico. We 

 are disappointed to find the life histories 

 ignored. 



State entomologist of New York. — 

 The Country Gentleman states that the re- 

 gents of the University of New York have ap- 

 pointed Ephraim Porter Felt, state entomol- 

 ogist, a previous appointment by the gover- 

 nor having proved to be without authority 

 in law. 



Guide to the Genera and Classification of the Orthoptera of North Atnerica 

 north of Mexico. By Samuel H. Scudder. 90 pp. S°. 



Contains keys for the determination of the higher groups as well as the 

 (nearly 200) genera of our Orthoptera, with full bibliographical aids to further 

 study. Sent by mail on receipt of price ($i.oo). 



E. W. WHEELER, 30 Boylston Street, Cambridge, Mass. 



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