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desired is a simple and intelligible classification, but here the author 

 has not been able to restrain his enjoyment in the complicated and 

 unusual. In the genus Argiope, for example, we have three closely 

 related species and these are described under three different generic 

 names while all come into the subfamily, Argiopinae. The family 

 Argiopidae includes tthe Epeiridae in general, and the superfamily 

 Argiopoidea all the spiders except the Aviculariidae. Even our few 

 English names do not escape change, for "the garden spider," long 

 a nickname of Epeira diadeinata, is here applied to Argiope. There is 

 also an unfortunate tendency to abandon names long in common use 

 and to substitute names that are older but less certain. Dictyna 

 z'olupis. for example, is replaced by Dictyna foliacea Hertz which may 

 br any one of several species. So the familiar Epeira iusularis is 

 replaced by Aranea gigas conspicellata. Tables are used to a large 

 extent as keys to the classification and here also the tendency is to- 

 ward the complex and difficult. In the general table the reader is 

 brought at once to such questions as whether a spider has two or 

 four lungs, whether it has a cribellum and calamistrum or not, and 

 whether it has two or three claws on the feet. In the descriptions 

 of species a large amount of space is given to peculiarities of struc- 

 ture and habits and to nests, webs and cocoons with plently of illu- 

 strations a large part of them new and nearly all good. 



References are given to other publications on American spiders of 

 which there is a list covering seven pages at the end of the book. — 

 J. H. E. 



A Preliminary List of the Insects of the Province of Quebec. 



Part I. — Lepidoptera. By Albert F. Winn, Westmount. Pub- 



ished as a Supplement to the Report of the Quebec Society for 



the Protection of Plants. 1912. 



This paper consists of 103 pages and Dr. J. B. Smith's New Jersey 



List was adopted as a model. The distribution and date of capture 



are given and in some cases the species are illustrated. It is a useful 



contribution to our knowledge of distribution. — H. S. 



Injurious Insects: How to Recognize and Control Them. By 

 Walter C. O'Kane, Entomologist to the New Hampshire Ex- 

 periment Station and Professor of Economic Entomology in New 

 Hampshire College. The Macmillan Company, New York. Price 

 $2.00 net. 

 This work contains 379 pages and 606 figures of insects of which 

 600 figures are stated to be original. This is really a very remarkable 

 feature of the book after one has been accustomed to seeing the same 



