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1920, 147-9. Shapley, H. — Note on pterergates in the Californian 

 harvester ant. 5, xxvii, 72-4. Viehmeyer, H. — Anleitung zum sammeln 

 von ameisen. Ill, 1918, A. 9, 160-70. Wheeler & Gaige, — Euponera 

 gilva, a rare North American ant. 5, xxvii, 69-72. 



Cushman, R. A. — The North American ichneumon-flies of the tribes 

 Lycorini, Polysphinctini, and Theroniini. 50, Iviii, 7-48. Girault, 

 A. A. — New Serphidoid, Cynipoid and Chalcidoid H. 50, Iviii, 177- 

 -2 1 6. Wilcox, A. M. — Notes and descriptions of species of Telenomus 

 having ten-jointed antennae. 5, xxvii, 78-81. 



Manual of the Orthoptera of New England, including the 

 Locusts, Grasshoppers, Crickets and their Allies. By Albert P. 

 Morse. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. 35, 

 no. 6, pp. 197-556, pis. 10-29, 99 text figs. April, 1920. — It is a rare oc- 

 casion in the experience of any student of a special field in zoology or 

 botany when he is able to pick up a new comprehensive work, purporting 

 to be both technical and popular, written by a brother specialist, with 

 •almost all of whose conclusions and methods the reader finds himself 

 ■quite in accord. Usually there will be found a number of rocks upon 

 which the conformity of opinion is shattered, some radical innovation 

 which is untried and frequently unwarranted. Morse's "Manual" is 

 clearly one of these rare studies, a painstakingly accurate and thorough 

 piece of work, a model of its kind and fully in keeping with the high plane 

 .achieved by that author in his previous memoirs. 



The style is attractive, literary and where needed is scientifically con- 

 -cise, the illustrations are generally well selected and carefully executed. 



The first paragraph of the Introduction (p. 207) fully deserves quota- 

 tion, as it epitomizes the order better than we have seen done by any 

 previous author: 



"The Orthoptera form a group of insects whose members touch upon 

 man's interests in a variety of ways. Some are among the scourges of 

 the earth, devastating wide areas, reducing the inhabitants to penury 

 and starvation and leaving in their wake misery and pestilence. Others 

 of obnoxious character enter dwellings in search of food and shelter, and 

 though acting in part as scavengers destroy large quantities of food-stufifs 

 and defile the premises. Wherever he wanders, whether on some name- 

 less peak of the farthest ranges or in the less inviting vacant lot next 

 •door, by seabeach, grainfield, alkali desert, or mangrove swamp, on city 

 pavements or yielding footpath to the spring, these little creatures are 

 his companions; whether he sleep in hut or palace or beneath the stars 

 their voices soothe his rest." 



The "Manual" is made up of five major divisions: Introduction, The 

 Orthoptera of New England (treated in systematic fashion). Accented 

 List of Scientific Names, Glossary and Index." The introductory division 



