406 BibliograpMcal Notice. 



12. Lecaniiim sp. (?2 spp.). 16. Aspidiotus uvae, v. coloratus, 



13. Pulvinaria Maclurae, Kenn., C'kll. 



MS., Fitch. 17. peruiciosus, C'omst. 



14. Sio-noretia sp., Toicns. 18. rapax, Coimt. 



15. Mvlilaspis albus, v. concolor, 10. ■ convexus, Comst. 



C'kll. 20. Nerii, BoucM. 



No.s. 2, 10, 12 (pars), 14, 18, and 19 I have not yet 

 examined. A Lecanium found on pear at Las Cruces seems 

 to be L. Cari/ce^i Fitch, but it may be only a variety of 

 rohiniarunij which occurs close by. 



Ap:ncultural Experiment Station, 



Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S.A., 



September 1893. 



BIBLIOGEAPHICAL KOTICE. 



Travel and Adventure in South-east Africa : heing the Narrative of 

 the last eleven years spent hy the Author on the Zambesi and its 

 Trihutanes ; with an Account of the Colonization of Mashunaland, 

 and the progress of the Gold Indusitry of that Country. By 

 Fkedkrick Couetexet f^ELors, C.M.Z.S. AVith numerous Illus- 

 trations and Map. London : Eowland Ward and Co. 



IS^OTHiXGr could be more opportune than the appearance of this 

 important work at the time when our country-men are fighting in 

 the interests of civilization against the savage Matabili — the prize 

 being the fertile Mashunaland, of which Mr. Selous speaks as a 

 country where Europeans can not only exist but even thrive, and 

 in the exploration of which he has played a prominent part. The 

 recipient of the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, the 

 Author naturally prefers to be known as the scientific pioneer rather 

 than the mighty hunter ; and as his book has already been fully 

 reviewed under both these aspects, we will direct our remarks 

 chiefly to those portions of it which relate to natural history. 



It must be within the recollection of most of our readers that in 

 1881 Mr. Selous published his experiences of nine years in ' A 

 Hunter's Wanderings in Africa,' a work which, in addition to 

 exciting episodes of sport, contained reprints of two valuable papers 

 on rhinoceroses and antelopes read before the Zoological Society, 

 and stamped the author as an observer of no ordinary character. 

 During his residence in London in the above year he frequently 

 visited the Natural-History Museum, where Dr. Giinther and 

 Mr. Oldfield Thomas called his attention to the sorry condition of 



