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Appleton & Co., 1897; lamo. pp. 349, 296. An excellent little book which 

 seems to perfectly fulfil the purposes for which it was written, namely 

 "to make easier the gaining of this intimate acquaintance with .... the 



creatures about us to serve as a guide for those who wish to acquire 



a knowledge of insects from a study of the insects themselves; it is in- 

 tended to lie open before the observer while the subject of study is exam- 

 ined." Excellent it seems to us to be because of its suggestions to the 

 reader as to the functions of organs and of methods for discovering these; 

 because of its treatment of insects according to what we may perhaps 

 call 'topographical habitat,' as pond-, brook-, orchard-, forest- or road- 

 side-dwellers ; and because of its extensive practical information as to 

 collecting, preserving, labeling and breeding insects, and as to those books 

 which the beginning student will find helpful. We have thus indicated 

 most of the contents of this guide, and have but to mention that there are 

 also chapters on the anatomy, metamorphoses and classification of insects. 

 Weed, C. M. Life Histories of American Insects. By Clarence 

 Moores Weed, D.Sc, Professor of Zoology and Entomology, New Hamp- 

 shire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. With 21 full page 

 plates and many figures in the text. New York. The Macmillan Co., 

 1897; i2nio., pp. xii. 272; 21 plates and 94 other figures. From the pub- 

 lishers, price $1.50. A series of twenty-six pleasant essays, each from 

 three to thirty-nine pages in length, on a number of American insects, 

 using this term in its widest sense, as the ground-spiders and, as a matter 

 of course, the harvest-spiders are included. Some of these have been 

 previously published in various journals, the longest, on the hibernation 

 of Aphides, in " Psyche " as the annual address of the retiring president 

 of the Cambridge Entomological Club, 14 February, 1896. Over the odd 

 covers of the book, the subjects of Prof. Weed's studies may be seen 

 crawling in profusion. 



Dixey, F. A. Mimetic attraction, i pi., 36. — Grover, W. At- 

 tractiveness of light, 21. — H anstein, R. v. E. Wasmann's Compara- 

 tive Studies on the mental life of ants and higher animals. Freiburg, 

 '97. Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau, Braunschweig. Sept. 11, '97. — 

 Packard, A. S. The number of moults in insects of different orders, 

 o. — Poulton, E. B. Mimicry- in butterflies of the genus /^/o//;««a5 

 and its bearing on older and more recent theories of mimicry. Science, 

 New York, Oct. i, '97; Report of the Hope Professor of Zoology, Ninth 

 Annual Report of the University Museum for 1896. Oxford, '97. 



Economic Eutoniology. — K i r k 1 a n d , A. H. The ninth annual 

 meeting of the association of Economic Entomologists, Detroit, Mich., 

 Aug. 1 2th and 13th, 1897, 4. — Quaint ance, A. L. Some strawberry 

 insects' Bulletin 42, Florida Agric. Exper. Station, Lake City, Fla., Aug., 

 '97. — Webster, F. M. The San Jos^ scale in Ohio, figs. Bulletin 81, 

 Ohio Agric. Exper. Station, Wooster, O., July, '97. 



Arachnida. — Cambridge, F. O. P. Arachnida Araneidea vol. ii, 

 pp. 1-8, 15, pt. cxxxvi. — Cambridge, O. P. Arachnida-Araneidea, 



