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various kinds is very great. Fortunate are those who can es- 

 cape various kinds of drudgery. What would the business 

 man of to-day think if he were obliged to do without a stenog- 

 rapher, typewriter, filing cases and other things of like charac- 

 ter? Many entomologists could turn out more and better work 

 if they were so situated as to command these necessities. Al- 

 most no financial aid comes to entomology as compared with 

 other researches of natural science, and yet we firmly believe 

 that there is not one that exceeds it in importance. We sin- 

 cerely trust that this condition will not continue. It is very 

 gratifying to see that in far-off Africa, the ice in this respect 

 is being broken. We refer to the splendid second report of the 

 Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial Col- 

 lege in Khartoum. 



Entomological Literature. 



Observations on the Staphylinid Groups Aleocharinae and 

 Xantholini, Chiefly of America. — By Thos. L. Casey. Trans- 

 actions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis. Vol. 16, No. 6. Issued 

 November 22, 1906. 



This work of 309 pages is devoted to a study of groups of smal! 

 Coleoptera which have been much neglected. The author says : In the 

 Aleocharinae, the parts of the series selected for present review are 

 those which are of more general interest and therefore somewhat sys- 

 tematically collected, although this is only true in a relative sense, 

 there being many most interesting genera and species still to be dis- 

 covered. Besides these groups of the Aleocharinae, a revision of the 

 tribe Xantholini is presented, based upon such material as could be 

 conveniently brought together. Many new genera and species are 

 described. The author is to be congratulated on presenting to ento- 

 mology such a valuable contribution to the literature of the subject, 

 and it is to be hoped that it will stimulate a greater interest in a rather 

 neglected family of the beetles. 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS PROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OP THE GLOBE. 

 It has been found that there are 900,000 separate kinds of bugs in Mis- 

 souri. It would appear from complaints in the Boston papers that there 

 are only two kinds in Massachusetts — the gypsy and brown-tailed moths. 

 Newspaper. 



Prof. H. A. Pilsbry of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia has just returned from Arizona. He collected a number of insects 

 most of which were taken in the Chiracahua Mountains. 



